Graduate Teaching Assistant- Health Data Analytics Course: Health Data and Visualization
About The Position
The Graduate Teaching Assistant will support the course coordination and administration of the UBC Extended Learning Health Data Analytics Micro-certificate Program. This is a part-time, 100% online program designed for health professionals to learn foundations in data analytics in a health context. The program consists of 3 courses, each 5 weeks in duration. Each course is offered three times throughout the calendar year, with an anticipated cohort size of up to 25 students per course. The role involves supporting the course instructor, managing content on Canvas, responding to student inquiries, grading assignments, and identifying/documenting course content issues.
Requirements
- Enrolled in a graduate program related to data science, or health sciences/medicine disciplines
- Advanced knowledge of data science, statistics and machine learning
- Education or work experience in health sciences, health data analytics
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Familiarity with Canvas
Responsibilities
- Work with the Course instructor to ensure course content is up to date on Canvas (e.g. updating announcement dates, assignment due dates, Zoom office hours)
- Respond to student’s questions in weekly discussions on Canvas
- Mark submitted assignments according to provided rubrics with Gradebook and assign student final grades
- Attend weekly office hours as needed (1 hour/week)
- Fix and /or document any mistakes or issues identified with course content for future iterations
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
