Job Details
Duration: 3-4 months. Location: New Brunswick 08901(Remote with occasional onsite meetings)
Job Description:
We have several active projects for creating online content in Canvas and require an interim Instructional Designer (also known as an Instructional Technologist) to keep the project on schedule whilst we recruit.
Depending on the start date of the engagement, we are looking at a 3-4 month period - we prefer full-time but can accommodate part-time as well - remote with perhaps occasional on-site meetings.
Reporting to the Director of Academic Technologies SGS-BHS, the Instructional Designer (ID) collaborates with faculty and staff in the design and development of online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses involving use of a learning management system (LMS). The ID will work collaboratively with faculty and program staff and provide recommendations on pedagogical best practices as they relate to the delivery of online course content. Topic areas may include, but are not limited to: course design, accessibility, universal design for learning, asynchronous and synchronous course delivery, assessments, and evaluation.
A significant part of the job responsibilities includes performing regular needs assessments, material production, and researching best practices, techniques, and tools as they relate to online instruction. The ID may also provide LMS, related educational technology workshops, and hands-on training to faculty and administrative staff as needed and requested.
Responsibilities:
Collaborates with faculty to develop and design online course content. Facilitates the process of developing and revising courses by maintaining close coordination among instructional development specialists, instructional technologists, academic stakeholders, and information technology staff.
Evaluates to ensure high quality, accuracy, and effectiveness of courses. Recommends policies and procedures that improve the course quality, development and revision process, and promotes collaboration, partnerships, and relationships among departments. Identifies and help resolves ethical and legal implications of instructional design.
Assists with faculty/student training initiatives including but not limited to: LMS specific training, universal design and accessibility training, online pedagogical best practices, and serving as an education resource for these for faculty and program staff.
Conducts routine needs assessments of courses - content, materials, design, presentation, accessibility, delivery, software configuration, security procedures, etc.
Acts as a technical point of contact for SGS-BHS teaching faculty, program staff, and affiliated personnel.
Other related duties as assigned by the Director of Academic Technologies, SGS-BHS
Experience:
Four (4) years of demonstrated relevant professional experience in a higher education environment is required.
Skills:
Requires a strong understanding of Canvas LMS.
Must possess a strong knowledge of pedagogy including how to design lessons, develop objectives, and align them with appropriate activities.
Requires knowledge of principles, practices, and techniques of designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating educational programs.
Requires good interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills. Must have the ability to facilitate and present instructional materials; assess technology and software programs and identify advantages and limitations of using various technologies for instructional purposes; effectively communicate technical information to a non-technical audience; and establish cooperative working relationships
Education:
Bachelor s degree in education, Instructional Technology, Educational Technology, Instructional Design or other related field plus
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Recruiter Details:
Name: Affan
Email: ...@ustechsolutionsinc.com
Internal Id: 24-15213