Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Terrestris LLC is seeking two full-time Instructional Designers to support the U.S. Navy Community College. The role designs, develops, maintains, and supports fully online undergraduate asynchronous and competency-based education courses and modules, collaborating with faculty and subject matter experts within a Learning Management System.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain fully online undergraduate-level asynchronous and competency-based education (CBE) courses and modules
- Collaborate with faculty and SMEs to align curriculum, course learning outcomes, instructional content, learning activities, and assessments
- Develop course design maps, storyboards, syllabi, instructor/learner resources, instructional content, multimedia, assessments, and rubrics. Build and/or migrate instructional content into the designated LMS
- Apply evidence-based instructional design and adult-learning/andragogical practices
- Develop faculty-development resources focused on effective online pedagogy and student-development resources supporting success in asynchronous and CBE environments
- Develop and maintain faculty/student community sites
- Review, update, and maintain existing courses, modules, links, media, assessments, and other instructional artifacts
- Support identification and correction of inaccurate, outdated, missing, or broken course content
- Apply WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and Universal Design for Learning principles
- Conduct usability testing, peer review, quality assurance, and/or pilot testing of course components and support development of QA reports
- Coordinate with stakeholders, incorporate review comments, and meet established course-development and maintenance schedules
- Provide LMS/course-content technical support as assigned, including assistance with course navigation, content access, assignments, quizzes, multimedia, and other course functionality
Skills
- 7 years of demonstrated experience developing online asynchronous and competency-based education (CBE) courses for accredited colleges and universities at the undergraduate level, as well as for military-affiliated educational institutions
- 7 years of experience applying andragogical best practices in designing instruction for working adults, evidenced by two (2) or more programs developed for this population
- 7 years of demonstrated experience and expertise designing and developing faculty-development courses or programs aimed at enhancing online teaching effectiveness (online pedagogy) at accredited institutions
- 7 years of demonstrated experience designing and developing online courses that equip students with the skills, strategies, and habits needed for success in online learning environments (traditional asynchronous and CBE)
- 7 years of demonstrated experience operating and maintaining a Learning Management System (LMS) at scale, including new course builds and ongoing course maintenance, within a higher education or government training environment
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement.
- Health benefits, financial benefits, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave.
- Professional development.
- Tuition assistance.
- Work-life programs.
- Award programs recognizing employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of service standards.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in the benefit programs.
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