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Selene: a lunar construction game

Employment




1. IMMEDIATE OPENING. Senior Application Programmer: HTML 5 Development Specialist.
The Senior Application Developer will conduct and manage CyGaMEs programming efforts in migrating Selene II from Flash/Flex to HTML5. The senior application HTML5 developer will program, test, and deploy the game and interstitial components as HTML5 to interface with the existing Selene II middleware and database; follow industry standard procedures for traceability, testing, development, deployment (as determined by the senior application programmer) including documentation; and advise, design, develop, deploy, and test any required new components or projects. This position will end with the conclusion of NSF funding CyGaMEs on August 31, 2013. QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, game design and development, or related field including databases plus HTML5 expertise and four (4) or more years’ experience in the field designing, testing, and deploying complex Flash/Flex, HTML5, and/or related applications and databases as well as their user interfaces. (or) Bachelor’s degree with coursework in programming, game design and development, or related field plus HTML5 experience and four (4) or more years’ experience in the field designing, testing, and deploying complex Flash/Flex, HTML5, and/or related applications and databases as well as their user interfaces. Master’s degree preferred.
  • Documented, extensive experience developing using HTML5, MS SQL
  • Knowledge of PHP and .Net and sound coding practices
  • Documentation skills and practice
  • Experience unit testing and JavaScript with prototyping
  • Preferred qualifications include documented success migrating Flash/Flex (especially database-driven games) to HTML5, degrees and/or commensurate industry experience in game design and development, coursework in game development, design, and/or HTML5 and mobile apps, expertise with game engines, Flash/Flex expertise, and facility with IOS, Android, Visual Studio 2012, and .Net.

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2. IMMEDIATE OPENING. Senior Educational Researcher: Psychometrician/Statistician Specialist.

This advanced scholar will conduct learning analytics of large datasets using CyGaMEs gameplay data (over 2 million records), investigating learning trajectories, affective self-perceptions, and the interplay between them. The successful candidate will contribute to papers reporting planned analyses and, time permitting, may develop additional papers for originally conceptualized work using CyGaMEs data. CyGaMEs is a nationally recognized, awarded, and cutting-edge approach to instructional game design and embedded assessment currently conducting research using its instructional genvironment Selene: A Lunar Construction GaME (version II). This position will end with the conclusion of NSF funding CyGaMEs on August 31, 2013. QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) or equivalent in statistics and/or psychometrics or Ph.D. in related field; or more than three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Basic and advanced statistical techniques including multilevel modeling, regression, ANOVA/MANOVA, and more traditional techniques.
  • Preferred qualifications include a wide array of skills such as Item Response Theory/Rasch modeling, Bayesian Networks, Hidden Markov Models, data mining and R. We are especially interested in spline regression with estimated knots.
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