Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. True Rise Foundation expands access to technology, education, family support, and child protection through practical charitable initiatives. The K–12 E-Learning Instructional Design Intern will help plan, create, review, and improve age-appropriate digital learning experiences, including lessons, activities, assessments, and online course content. The intern will also support educational research, content organization, accessibility, quality assurance, and responsible use of AI tools.
Responsibilities
- Assisting with online learning experiences for K–12 students
- Creating resources for students, families, homeschool communities, and alternative learning environments
- Researching educational topics and organizing information into lessons and learning modules
- Adapting content for specific grade levels, age groups, learning abilities, and educational settings
- Helping create lessons that promote practical skills, real-world learning, confidence, and opportunity
- Writing measurable learning objectives and course outcomes
- Creating lesson plans, scripts, storyboards, presentations, and instructional materials
- Developing quizzes, knowledge checks, assignments, activities, and assessments
- Aligning lessons, activities, and assessments with learning objectives
- Reviewing content for clarity, accuracy, consistency, grammar, age appropriateness, and student engagement
- Converting documents, presentations, videos, and other materials into structured online learning content
- Researching K–12 standards, alternative education, homeschool resources, educational technology, and online learning practices
- Using AI-assisted tools for research, brainstorming, drafting, editing, and content organization
- Testing lessons from the student’s perspective and documenting recommended improvements
- Helping make learning materials accessible to students with different learning needs
- Assisting with course uploads, updates, and organization within an e-learning platform or learning management system
- Participating in virtual meetings, project discussions, demonstrations, and content reviews
- Collaborating with team members and applying feedback
- Following expectations regarding confidentiality, copyright, student privacy, data security, and responsible AI use
- Communicate regularly with their assigned supervisor or team
- Attend required virtual meetings
- Complete agreed-upon learning activities and project assignments
- Follow instructions and meet established deadlines
- Communicate promptly about questions, challenges, or scheduling conflicts
- Be receptive to feedback and willing to revise their work
- Protect confidential organizational, project, and educational information
- Use organizational systems, learning materials, and AI tools responsibly
- Follow applicable content-development, security, privacy, and documentation procedures
Skills
- All qualifications are preferred and not required:
- • Interest in K–12 education, instructional design, curriculum development, educational technology, alternative education, homeschool education, or e-learning
- • Teaching, tutoring, mentoring, coaching, childcare, student-teaching, or classroom experience
- • Experience creating lessons, presentations, worksheets, training materials, or educational activities
- • Familiarity with K–12 standards or age-appropriate instructional practices
- • Interest in helping students and families access practical and flexible educational opportunities
- • Clear writing, grammar, editing, proofreading, and communication skills
- • The ability to organize and explain information clearly
- • Familiarity with Google Docs, Google Slides, Microsoft Word, or PowerPoint
- • Experience with Canva or other visual content-creation tools
- • Familiarity with learning management systems or online learning platforms
- • Exposure to Articulate Storyline, Rise 360, Adobe Captivate, iSpring, or similar platforms
- • Experience with ChatGPT, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or other generative AI platforms
- • Interest in using artificial intelligence responsibly in education
- • Basic familiarity with digital accessibility principles
- • Creativity, attention to detail, organization, dependability, and openness to feedback
- • The ability to meet deadlines and collaborate in a remote environment
- Applicants do not need experience with every tool or method listed above. Applicants without a professional instructional design background, portfolio, or previous internship experience may still be considered
Benefits
- Part-Time Internship
- Remote internship
- Interns will receive guidance, feedback, and supervised project opportunities based on their abilities, interests, and professional development goals.
- Gain practical experience developing online learning for K–12 students.
- Contribute to initiatives that expand educational opportunities for students and families.
- Learn instructional design and online education fundamentals.
- Practice creating objectives, outlines, lessons, activities, and assessments.
- Adapt educational materials for different ages, grade levels, learning needs, and environments.
- Explore online learning for homeschool families and alternative education pathways.
- Strengthen writing, editing, research, and content-development skills.
- Evaluate educational materials from a student’s perspective.
- Gain exposure to learning management systems and e-learning development tools.
- Explore responsible uses of artificial intelligence in course development.
- Receive feedback and guidance from team members.
- Build experience with collaboration and content-review processes.
- Learn about accessibility, copyright, student privacy, confidentiality, and data security.
- Develop work samples that may be discussed professionally, subject to True Rise Foundation’s confidentiality and intellectual-property requirements.
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