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Summary

The Instructional Designer is responsible for the development and revision of curricular products for Boundless Learning partners/clients. This position works directly with subject matter experts, partner/client personnel, quality assurance staff, and multimedia developers. The Instructional Designer will work as an integral part of a collaborative instructional design team responsible for the assessment, design, development, and evaluation of online, hybrid, and/or traditional courses and learning experiences. This individual will conceptualize and storyboard instructionally sound, interactive, engaging web-based course components and work collaboratively with other team members to ensure these components are integrated into learning management systems.

Responsibilities

• Manages the curriculum development process for new and revision courses and learning experiences and assures that courses adhere to partner/client standards.

• Develops and supports partner/client-chosen online learning environments.

• Provides instructional design consultation to faculty of partners/clients and/or subject matter experts; assists faculty of partners/clients and/or subject matter experts in the development of contextually-rich, engaging, and objective-driven courses and learning experiences that focus on applicable real-world/workplace skills.

• Works within a project management application to document course development process data including time tracking, project comments, and task completion.

• Designs content for delivery in online environments and completes instructional design documentation to ensure quality and consistency.

• Conducts photo research for images to supplement learning activities.

• Uses WYSIWYG multimedia tools to develop multimedia pieces. 

• Communicates regularly with partner/client faculty and/or subject matter experts during curriculum development process.

• Builds course content/components into the learning management system.

• Conceptualizes and storyboards instructionally sound, interactive, engaging web-based course components. 

• Conducts quality assurance reviews on courses and implements revisions. Collaborates with quality assurance staff.

• Reviews existing courses for quality, currency, and consistency and works with faculty to enhance curriculum design as needed.

• Participates in university ID team meetings.

• Helps to test and implement agreed-upon emerging technologies in courses and learning experiences. 

• Attends course revision calls and creates scope documents outlining confirmed revisions from post-course discussions.

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education, instructional design, curriculum, educational technology, or a related degree is required; master’s degree is preferred.

• Minimum of three years’ experience in instructional design with experience in designing authentic assessments and generative learning experiences. Experience in higher education is preferred.

• Knowledge of adult learning principles, Understanding by Design, constructivism, facilitation, DE&I and learner-centered activities.

• Ability to provide instructional design consulting services to subject matter experts.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

• Experience in learning management systems with knowledge of accessibility standards. Experience in html or css preferred.

• Ability to be creative, flexible, and innovative in course design.

• Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize, adhere to budgets, and meet deadlines. 

• Exceptionally strong attention to detail.

• Comfort in working within project management applications.

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