Instructional Designer - VCU Online and Continuing and Professional Education
- Employer
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Location
- Virginia, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not Specified
- Date posted
- Sep 27, 2022
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Summary
The position is an Instructional Designer (AA Instructional Design Specialist) for VCU Online and Continuing and Professional Education. Instructional Designers collaborate with faculty and colleagues to develop high-quality online, blended, and hybrid courses based on pedagogical best practices. These collaborations may be individual consultations relating to instructional design, larger programmatic efforts working with groups, and/or faculty development opportunities to enhance course design, facilitation, evaluation, and administration.
These engagements support the design or redesign of course components such as:
- Develop the online course environment
- Creation of learning objects, activities, and course content
- Design of formative and summative assessment
- Integration of appropriate learning technologies
- Strategies for content delivery and engagement
- Guidance in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance
- Maintaining confidentiality in consultation work with faculty members, departments, and schools
- Supporting the Instructional Design team in order to meet course design goals and faculty needs in a timely manner
- Build quality course materials and components to align with VCU Quality standards
- Other duties may be assigned in response to the unit’s needs
Minimum Hiring Standards
- Bachelor’s degree in instructional design or other education-related field
- Minimum two (2) years of experience designing and building courses for online or hybrid delivery
- Demonstrated experience with a learning management system (LMS) and a range of learning technologies
- Demonstrated experience designing and creating online resources for instructors
- Ability to adapt and solve problems proactively and independently
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and teaming skills
- Proven ability to work as a contributing and collegial member of a team, and to communicate proactively within the team environment
- Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment or commitment to do so as a member of the VCU community
- Proven time management skills
- Advanced degree in a discipline such as instructional design, learning technologies, curriculum and instruction, adult learning, or a related field
- Experience using Canvas in a higher education environment
Essential physical functions: Walking, Sitting, Repetitive motion, Average to fast paced, Ability to respond to multiple stimuli
Essential cognitive functions: Memory, Reasoning, Analyzing, Hearing, Logic, Reading, Written communication, Verbal communication
Salary Range: Up to $60,000
Position Details:
Department: VCU Online and Continuing and Professional Education
Employment Type: UF - University Employee FT
Restricted Status: No
FTE: 1
Exemption Status: Exempt
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