Instructional Designer - Jackson County Campus

Instructional Designer - Jackson County Campus

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Job Title Instructional Designer - Jackson County Campus

Job Description

• Engages in learner advocacy and is a creative, student-centric designer who is talented in synthesizing and energizing ideas, developing meaningful and impactful learning experiences, and working in an agile course design and development environment with a passion for digitally enhanced learning.
• Collaborate with faculty cohorts to redesign curriculum and instructional materials, including project-based learning techniques.
• Assess learner needs and apply those while engaging in curriculum and content development using technology integration.
• Create high-quality and valid assessment tools, plans, and artifacts to assess learning formatively and summatively.
• Participate in quality assurance reviews, instructor training, iterative design, and ongoing analysis of course performance.
• Track and report milestones and communicate at regular intervals.
• Conduct training sessions and workshops for faculty cohorts and college faculty at large on effective instructional design and best practices.
• Design, curate, and maintain instructional resources and tools to support faculty in implementing project-based learning and/or other innovative strategies—such as strategic planning for learning initiatives, augmented and virtual reality, adaptive learning, gamification, user experience (UX) design for learning, and mobile solutions—within a centralized repository of best practices.
• Help faculty create model course shells for courses that incorporate research-based strategies and other innovations based on best practices in course design (e.g., Quality Matters).
• Conduct thorough analyses of student needs, common challenges, historical course performance, instructor recommendations, and course and program goals to foster continuous improvement.
• Maintain currency in learning sciences, instructional design principles, and emerging technologies and trends related to higher education, research in instructional design, project-based learning, and student engagement.
• Conduct observations of faculty, upon request, to provide a diagnostic, help refine their andragogy, and/or improve course design, including an analysis of course shells.
• Recruit faculty cohorts to participate in instructional design training on project-based learning.
• Provide ongoing support and feedback to faculty during the implementation of redesigned courses.
• Create and maintain a repository of instructional design resources and best practices.
• Identify institutions with model faculty development programs and organize visits to those institutions, if possible, with faculty cohorts.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the college including all Schools, all MGCCC locations, administrators, the Enrollment Management and Student Services division, and Institutional Research.
• Perform duties independently and exercise a high degree of initiative in determining the approach/action to take in routine and non-routine situations.
• Work flexible hours as needed and complete all tasks assigned in a timely manner.
• Maintain high professional standards in all work performed.
• Participate in campus and college events including student orientation, athletics/concerts, and/or other functions. Serve as a public relations representative for the college in the local community.
• Work constantly to promote a student-centered attitude among all campus employees.
• Emphasize and incorporate student retention and completion efforts.
• Provide student advisement and support, as needed.
• Work with counterparts from other campuses and the district office to ensure consistent administration of college policies and procedures. Assure campus compliance with…