NYU Silver School of Social Work

NYU Silver Ed Tech Internship Opportunity

NYU Silver is a school deeply engaged with teaching and learning, social justice advocacy, clinical practice, and research. For an intern, Silver offers a wealth of exposure to a wide range of pedagogical-technological challenges, and opportunities for exploring the space between learning theory and actual practice. 

About the Position:

As an intern with Silver’s Educational Technology office, you will have the opportunity to participate in the full range of responsibilities of an educational technologist in the higher education sector. This will include, but is not limited to:

• Learning design for face-to-face and online learning courses

• Support for Brightspace course site updates and new course implementation. 

• Multimedia production/post-production of audio/video content for courses and academic events

• UX problem-solving for a wide range of teaching and learning technology employed by faculty at the school

• Faculty and student web-based resources for teaching and learning

• Research and documentation of emerging technologies for teaching and learning

• Virtual simulation and game-based learning design/development

• Design/development of digital literacy professional development programming 

*Although the above represent many of our current needs, an intern at Silver should not feel limited by them.

*Interns will have the opportunity to customize their experience to reflect personal areas of interest or innovation within the context of teaching and learning at the School. 

Current projects include:

• Leveraging virtual spaces for teaching and learning

• Evaluation of course design with a view towards updating courses with dated design and resources

• Redesign of a web-based toolkit for teaching

• Exploring the uses of AI for teaching and learning

Position logistics:

• This position is remote and unpaid

• Meeting structure includes a one hour weekly check-in via Zoom

If you are interested in applying for this internship opportunity, please send your resume (and optional portfolio) to Maaike Bouwmeester at mb262@nyu.edu and Chrissy Glaser at clg461@nyu.edu.