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Posted Job Title
Instructional Designer (Temp)
Job Profile Title
Temporary Employee - Non-Exempt
Job Description Summary
This role will be a member of the Learning Design and Technology team and must be a talented instructional designer who can collaborate with our accomplished faculty to create unique and powerful learning experiences that leverage the latest in learning science and advances in technology to foster engagement and rigorous learning.
The Instructional Designer will work with faculty and the Associate Director to plan highly engaging, scalable online courses, driving the learning design process by guiding faculty through key decisions about how to transform their courses for online students. They will then collaborate with faculty to execute the planned approach, assisting with various types of content development, and providing project management to ensure work adheres to timelines and budgets. In partnership with other Learning Design and Technology staff, they will build each course in the platforms (primarily Canvas) and run comprehensive QA on them to prepare for successful launches. Post-launch, this individual will coordinate corrections to course materials and revisions for future iterations of courses.
The Instructional Designer will work with faculty and Associate Director to plan highly engaging, scalable online courses, driving the learning design process by guiding faculty through key decisions about how to transform their courses for online students. They will then collaborate with faculty to execute the planned approach, assisting with various types of content development, and provide project management to ensure work adheres to timelines and budgets. In partnership with other Penn Engineering Online Learning staff, they will build each course in the platform (Canvas) and run comprehensive QA on them to prepare for successful launches. Post launch, this individual will coordinate corrections to course materials, and revisions for future iterations of courses.
Job Description
Responsibilities include:
Work with faculty to design highly engaging, scalable online courses that meet Penn Engineering course standards. Manage the development or revisions of an average of 2-3 courses at a time at various stages in process. Drive the learning design process by guiding faculty through key decisions about how to transform their courses for online students and manage timelines and deliverables.
Lead development of learning design deliverables, including learning objectives, assessments, content plans, activity types, and student interactions.
Work with faculty and teaching assistants as subject matter experts and content producers to generate rigorous and engaging learning assets that highlight Penn and our faculty.
Build Canvas course shells and author relevant assets; document and manage asset records.
Design with course accessibility at the forefront, audit existing course materials for accessibility, write alt-text, and update PDFs where appropriate.
Other duties as assigned.
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