Instructional Design Senior Associate
About The Position
The Instructional Design Senior Associate (IDSA) works with faculty and staff to provide instructional design (ID) related to the development and re-development of online courses using Charter Oak State College’s current and future instances of the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS). The IDSA may assist other members of the ID Team or be responsible for projects on their own. The IDSA ensures that quality, format, and accessibility practices and standards are employed for all online courses. The IDSA may work on media-related tasks such as assisting faculty with the creation of videos, voiceovers, captions, transcripts, and other related media content. The IDSA performs other instructional design tasks under the direction of the Director of Instructional Design and/or delegated staff.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in instructional design, educational technology, or closely related field
- Minimum 2 years of experience working as an instructional designer in an online college/university setting.
- Minimum 2 years of online course design and development experience utilizing Blackboard Learn.
- Minimum 2 years of experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, etc.), Adobe applications (Acrobat, Photoshop, etc.), operating systems (Windows), and web browser functionality.
- Minimum 2 years of experience using HTML associated with online course content.
- Minimum 2 years of experience with ADA compliance, accessibility standards and remediation of online educational resources in an online college/university setting including, but not limited to, Word and PDF documents, video captions and transcripts, image/color contrast, and alt text.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in instructional design, educational technology or closely related field
- Minimum 5 years of experience working as an instructional designer in an online college/university setting.
- Minimum 5 years of online course design, development, and conversion experience with Blackboard Ultra.
- Experience utilizing artificial intelligence in the online course development process.
Responsibilities
- Work with faculty on the development, redevelopment, and maintenance of online courses.
- Assist faculty with the production of video content, captions, and ADA-compliance/remediation.
- Collaborate with the Charter Oak State College ID staff to build courses and/or revise courses.
- Assist with the conversion of courses into updated formats.
- Assist with the conversion of courses in Blackboard Learn to Blackboard Ultra.
- Assist with the reviews of online courses for ADA compliance and remediate accessibility issues as necessary and ensure course materials adhere to copyright law.
- Assist the ID Staff with the ID helpdesk operations.
- Efficient and effective verbal and written communication skills, along with organizational skills including grammar, spelling, and punctuation, along with expert organizational skills and file management.
- Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, including the ability to work effectively with a wide variety of clients for successful project management.
- Ability to work independently, with a focus on attention to detail, quality, and meeting deadlines while following standard operating procedures for processes.
- Ability to effectively work with a culturally, linguistically, and ethnically diverse faculty, staff, and students.
- Ability to work productively on multiple projects simultaneously, and scope and estimate time required to meet needs.
- Strong information literacy skills.
- Ability to identify and report technical issues within Blackboard for different users and use cases.
- Participate in ID Department meetings.
- Keep up to date with new Instructional Design technologies and trends.
- Attend virtual and/or in-person training events, as necessary.
Benefits
- excellent State of CT medical insurance, retirement, and related fringe benefits
- comprehensive benefits package to help you stay well, protect yourself and your family, and plan for a secure future. Benefits include generous leave policies; several retirement plans; and many choices for comprehensive health insurance. You also have access to many additional benefits to save for retirement, protect your family & more with supplemental benefits.
- Tuition reimbursement may apply if applicable.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
51-100 employees
