Instructional Designer
Responsible for developing instructional strategies, course material, and assessment techniques, to ensure appropriate integration of instructional technologies into courses. Responsible for providing faculty consultation and guidance on the best pedagogical course content delivery and instructional methods. Provides faculty training and workshops on the Learning Management System (LMS) and other various integrated systems. Ensures online course certification reviews and existing course certification reaffirmations. This is a grant-funded position. Continued employment is contingent upon grant funding.
- Manages course projects from inception to completion, in addition to consulting with faculty on optimal design of curriculum, instruction, and effective uses of multimedia. Collaborates with faculty to prepare and develop curriculum.
- Maintains records on status of template course development progress and of status and availability of College-owned courses. Maintains course shells, sets term availability dates, and distributes templates for instruction.
- Promotes the effective use of distance learning technologies and online education, to include maintaining current knowledge of industry trends.
- Oversees searches for reusable learning objects, identifies appropriate learning objects meeting fair use standards and works with faculty in the design of such objects.
- Develops evaluation products and methods and assesses the validity and appropriateness of instructional design to instructional objectives.
- Researches and recommends advances in multimedia and course delivery software for use by faculty and others to improve delivery methods and operations with the assistance of faculty, vendors, and development team members.
- Conducts needs assessment to identify knowledge, skills, behaviors, and competencies required in selecting or designing curriculum, and to incorporate technology into the teaching and learning environment.
- Coordinates the scheduling of distance learning courses to include maintenance of course development schedule for college-developed course shells for distance learning.
- Evaluates, researches, self-studies, and develops using new technologies and methodologies. Develops or conducts internal training in technical or professional skills. Includes personal computer training.
- Supervises or participates in the selection, development, and coordination of the use of course materials and instructional media including videoconference courses, online courses, and interactive classrooms.
- Develops and assists with the production of multimedia content for academic projects. Projects may include podcast, vodcast, game development, editing video clips, streaming, and DVDs and virtual tours.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Required Minimum Qualifications:
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Four years of related experience
Knowledge of:
- Online Course Management systems (i.e., Canvas or similar)
- Online authoring tools (i.e., Adobe Creative Cloud, Respondus or similar)
- Content Management System (CMS), website builder and application software
- Current instructional design tools and software.
Skilled in:
- Creative thinking and problem solving to explore new technology, processes, and approaches
- Digital video editing
- Attention to detail while maintaining effective time and task management