Associate Instructional Designer – Digital Learning at UT
Digital Learning at UT, is a unit charged with advancing UT’s commitment to discovery, creativity, learning, and engagement, specifically for online learners. Using advanced and innovative technologies, Digital Learning at UT will provide scalable solutions that enhance the online learning experience and reduce barriers to student access and success, providing a tremendous impact to online learners across the state and the nation. At Digital Learning, we want to be bold and impactful, transforming the future of online education through innovative thinking and collaborative problem-solving.Join our dynamic and inclusive Digital Learning team where we take pride in teamwork, excellence, and a shared commitment to shaping the future through education and innovation.
The Associate Instructional Designer for online teaching and learning will collaborate directly with UTK instructional faculty, Digital Learning Instructional Designers and Graduate Teaching Associates (GTAs) to analyze, design, develop and evaluate quality online and hybrid courses and programs, and will independently create courses and content for instructional design projects that impact academic units.In this role, this position will independently apply instructional design principles and utilize a range of educational technologies to create engaging, accessible, and effective learning materials that elevate the quality of online education.
The position has the potential for a hybrid or remote working capacity.
Course Design, Development, & Maintenance
- Collaborate with faculty, instructors, and instructional design team to develop courses in line with the university’s “Engaged Online Course Initiative.” Support faculty through a series of available professional development opportunities, from trainings/webinars through comprehensive course design and development.
- Manage instructional design projects to support the complete development of individual courses and program development; Develop multimedia products for online courses.
- Independently consult with individual faculty as well as instructional staff across the university to support the effective use and implementation of best practices in online teaching and learning.
- Develop and implement appropriate assessment tools to effectively evaluate programming and to assist faculty in examining their teaching so as to make continuous improvements in their practice
- Lead Digital Learning efforts to maintain compliance with USDOJ guidelines for accessibility with online courses, including applying accessiblity standards and quality assurance protocols in material creation as well as conversion/optimizing older materials.
- Provide start-of-term support to faculty in preparation for each teaching session, including keeping links current, ensuring seamless access to third-party assets/embeds, and updating dates and deadlines for assignments
Technology Assistance and Enhancement
- Diagnose, recommend, and utilize effective and creative uses of technology to enhance instruction.
- Employ content authoring tools, document creation applications, presentation tools, and other technology resources to develop custom products.
- Test relevant technologies for adoption by Course Production unit
Educational Technology Troubleshooting
- Provide troubleshooting, technology, documentation, and event information support to faculty and subject matter experts.
- Provide front-line troubleshooting to faculty for resolving issues with Digital Learning course templates, including basic html
- Build familiarity with, and stay current on, best practices, learning theories, and instructional technologies, incorporating these into content standards and learning objectives.
Required Education And Experience
- Bachelor’s degree instructional design, education, technology, learning science, or related field
- Experience providing educational technology development services, or formal or informal education, whether in a full-time or part-time (e.g. graduate assistantship) capacity
- Or, any equivalent combination of experience or education from which comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities have been achieved.
Preferred Experience
- Master’s or Doctoral degree in instructional design, education, technology, learning science, or related field.
For full consideration, applicants must attach a letter of interest, resume, and the name, address, email, and phone number of three professional references, in addition to completing the applicant file to the Human Resources online application system, Taleo.
Screening of applicants will begin immediately and continue until the position has been filled. DL_UT
Job
Other Professional
Primary Location
US-Tennessee-knoxville
Organization
Digital Learning At Ut
Schedule
Full-time
Campus/Institute
Knoxville
Job Posting
Nov 12, 2024, 10:09:50 AM
About Organization
The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville. Founded in 1794, it is the flagship institution of the statewide University of Tennessee system with nine undergraduate departments and eleven graduate departments and hosts more than 26,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. In its 2009 ranking of universities, U.S. News & World Report ranked UT 118th among national universities and 52nd among public institutions of higher learning. Its ties to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, established under UT President Andrew Holt and continued under the UT-Battelle partnership, have positioned the University as co-manager and allow for considerable research opportunities for faculty and students enjoyed by few other institutions of comparable standing.
Also affiliated with the University are the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, and the University of Tennessee Arboretum, which occupies 250 acres of nearby Oak Ridge, Tennessee and features hundreds of species of plants indigenous to the region. The University is a direct partner of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, the only Level I trauma center in the East Tennessee region and a self-proclaimed 'teaching hospital' due to its aggressive medical research programs and position as the primary career destination for most medical school graduates of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis.