Description:
Sr. Instructional Designers will have and work on designated programs to ensure customizations and continuity across courses. They will provide leadership and coaching to other Instructional
Designers in the LDC to ensure program changes and maintenance are implemented in an efficient and quality manager.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Leads curriculum and instructional design efforts for new programs and course revisions in collaboration with faculty and SMEs:
- Proactively consults with SME’s on program, course and module level alignment, providing best practices based on USD and industry standards.
- Effectively designs course layout, learning activities, and assessments and implements them in the learning management system.
- Creates design documents (e.g., course outlines, storyboards, design mock ups, etc.) to guide the course development process.
- Ensures clarity, organization, accuracy, style, logical flow, and quality of all course content.
In addition to the duties above, Sr. Instructional Designers proactively consults with Academic Directors on the maintenance of the overall standards for the program for which they are assigned. The Sr. ID provides guidance and oversight to other instructional designers working on the program revisions to ensure changes are consistently and efficiently implemented. The Sr. ID makes recommendations, implements and maintains standard operating procedures for instructional design projects.
- Reviews curriculum based on review and analysis of student/faculty/internal/external feedback and quality assessment standards.
- Provides recommendations based on USD and industry quality assessment standards (e.g. Quality Matters)
- Authors original content and modifies existing materials in coordination with SMEs and other stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in educational technology, instructional design or related area required. (Substitution: Bachelor’s degree with 2 additional years’ experience in Instructional Design; Instructional Design portfolio preferred)
- Three or more years of demonstrated work experience as an instructional designer in a higher education or related institution/environment required.
- Demonstrated experience in designing, developing, implementing, and revising for credit online courses and course materials in a higher education environment • Demonstrated experience consulting on adult learning theory, online pedagogy, Universal Design for Learning and/or Backward Design.
- Demonstrated technology skills (LMS- Blackboard, Synchronous learning tools – Zoom/Bb Collaborate, Rapid eLearning Tools- Adobe Creative Suite, Articulate Storyline and graphical layout, digital audio and video, HTML coding and editing, etc.) required
- Strong command of academic-level writing. With experience editing and writing clear, engaging, and compelling content in a variety of styles appropriate to target audiences required.
- The ability to organize and manage multiple concurrent projects.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively through various formats/modalities (e.g. email, in person, video conferencing, etc.)