Academic

The Team

E-Learning @ FAA within the College of Fine + Applied Arts at UIUC is focused on using design and technology to elevate education in the arts. We design online and blended courses, help faculty and students use e-learning tools, and take a strategic approach to improving the course—and the overall FAA—experience.

We’re looking for a creative, curious, and ambitious person to fill one academic hourly position.

As a member of the E-Learning @ FAA team, the Academic Hourly will:

• Be responsible for design, development, management, and support of online courses as offered through the College of Fine and Applied Arts' six academic units—Architecture, Art + Design, Dance, Landscape Architecture, Music, Theatre, and Urban + Regional Planning.
• Analyze instructional needs.
• Provide expertise and assistance with innovative strategies to meet those needs.
• Generally support course and program offerings.

At E-Learning @ FAA, we like to help our team members grow and develop professionally. To this end, the Academic Hourly will work with the Senior Instructional Designer to develop and lead a project that aligns with their professional goals.

• Bachelor's degree.
• Demonstrated experience in online curriculum building and web-based course development within an asynchronous learning environment.
• Demonstrated high-level interpersonal skills.
• Experience working on project teams and leading multiple project teams.
• Good understanding of online pedagogy.
• Demonstrated experience developing a course using a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management system (LCMS).
• Demonstrated experience developing HTML/CSS-based web pages.
• Experience producing multimedia (still images, audio, and video).
• Knowledge of accessibility standards, compliance, and copyright laws.
• Proven ability to work with confidential and sensitive data in an educational environment.
• Well-developed communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Established track record of working independently as well as collaboratively with those with differing backgrounds and skills.
• Proven experience in managing tasks with different priorities.

• Master's degree, preferably in education-related field.
• Significant experience in online curriculum building and web-based course development within an asynchronous learning environment.
• Experience providing face-to-face training and workshops.
• Experience with remote meeting tools like Elluminate/Collaborate and Lync.
• Experience with social networking and collaboration tools (discussion forums, wikis, blogs, etc.) in asynchronous learning environments.
• Experience with screen/video capture tools like Captivate.
• Experience using Blackboard Learn, Moodle, and/or Canvas.
• Experience using Kaltura, or other video platforms.
• Video production experience.
• Understanding of adult and asynchronous learning theory.
• Background or education in the arts.
• Experience with many of the following applications: MS Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, iMovie, Garage Band, Audacity, Audio Hijack, Hand Brake, screen capture tools such as Apple Preview, and Respondus.
• Demonstrated ability to interact with faculty of varying ranks from different disciplines and with different levels of experience teaching in an online environment.