ALI Senior Learning Experience Designer
Requisition Number:
57616
Location:
Boulder, Colorado
City
Boulder
State
Colorado
Employment Type:
University Staff
Schedule:
Full-Time
Posting Close Date:
16-Jul-2024
Date Posted:
28-Jun-2024
Job Summary
The Office of Academic Learning and Innovation encourages applications for a Senior Learning Experience Designer! This is a full-time position that reports to the Assistant Director of Program Design in the Office of Academic and Learning Innovation. As a Senior Learning Experience Designer, this position works directly with faculty, student assistants, and platform managers, as well as with guiding and learning technologies, to design and produce creative, important, and powerful learning experiences for both non-credit and for-credit online course offerings and programs. The incumbent consults with faculty to adapt and iterate on existing course materials for online delivery, engaging in course design from ideation to development to analytics, and building brand-new next generation learning experiences from the ground up.
This position plays a central role in project management, coordinating with CU Boulder’s Coursera support team to see that ALI’s pedagogical mission can be delivered successfully on the Coursera platform. This involves overseeing the production of both non-credit and for-credit courses, ensuring seamless communication of critical updates to degree program staff, and playing a key role in pilot program on the platform. The project management responsibilities extend to the maintenance of for-credit template items, ensuring consistency and quality across the portfolio. The Senior Learning Experience Designer is also charged with ensuring the efficient and effective operation of the Learning Experience Design team through evaluation and iteration of systems, processes and documentation and by supporting the professional development of junior colleagues through mentorship. Additionally, the position will take a leading role in representing CU Boulder and the Office of Academic and Learning Innovation when engaging with partners across campus and in higher education.
The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Who We Are
The Office of Academic and Learning Innovation (ALI) is an agile and responsive unit of CU Boulder Online within the Division of Academic Affairs tasked with designing next generation learning experiences that engage the local and global University of Colorado Boulder community. Our mission is three-fold: inspire a re-imagination of instruction and learning, expand access to high-quality learning experiences, and transform higher education for the 21st century. Our work spans innovative on-campus program development, MOOCs, scaled online courses, programs, and degrees, and designing new business and technical processes to support our academic vision.
What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be
- Work directly with faculty as a pedagogical and instructional consultant to design and build student-centered online courses and programs, as well as support the development of technical assessments for code-based learning experiences. Lead maintenance and iteration of existing courses and programs, engaging with student and partner feedback, applying quality assurance methods for continuous improvement, and producing actionable improvement plans.
- Serve as a point of contact regarding course development status for several online post-graduate degree programs, monitor the ongoing development progress of for-credit courses, and communicate updates and concerns as necessary to degree program staff.
- Research and implement established and emergent educational tools and technologies to (1) enhance learning and pedagogical strategy and (2) ensure transformational student learning outcomes.
- Provide mentorship to junior colleagues in learning design and project management. Supervise project assistants, including onboarding, training, distribution and oversight of projects, regular check-ins, and mentorship, when necessary.
- Collaborate with CU Boulder’s Coursera support team and other Coursera partner institutions to optimize platform functionality and ensure that it supports ALI’s pedagogical mission, including playing a significant supporting role in running platform pilots.
- Additional job duties as required, including, but not limited to, hiring, training and supervising student employees. This position will be flexible and responsive to emergent needs and responsibilities.
What You Should Know
Hybrid work environment offered. This job is largely remote, with occasional onsite meetings required.
What We Can Offer
- The annual salary for this full-time position is $68,000-$72,800.
- Relocation allowance may be offered within departmental guidelines.
Benefits
The University of Colorado offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass. The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. Learn more about the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Be creative. Be impactful. Be Boulder.
What We Require
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university, or a combination of education and relevant professional experience.
- Three (3) years of experience providing direct faculty support to design innovative online, distance, and/or on-campus academic programs at a college or university.
- Experience with basic programming languages (Python and R preferred).
What You Will Need
- Strong communication skills.
- Flexible and creative problem solver.
- Ability to work independently with little direct supervision.
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
- Ability and willingness to learn LMS platform tools to develop technical assessments (i.e. Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio).
- Ability to think holistically about learning experience design as a process of engagement between instructors, students, designers, technologies, platforms, and pedagogies.
- Ability to listen carefully, collaborate authentically, and learn constantly.
- Understands the value of rubrics, checklists, and standard processes but can think and work beyond them.
- Ability to build and implement systems and practices, and remain flexible to iterate, revise, and evolve as needs and circumstances change.
- Ability to support faculty in developing successful and innovative code-based learning experiences.
- Ability to cultivate peer networks and stay engaged with the field through presentations, writings, and other outreach efforts.
- Seeks opportunities for capacity building and knowledge sharing at every turn.
- Stays up to date on research and scholarship in the fields of educational technology, higher education pedagogy, and learning sciences.
- Ability to work independently of a remote location as well as engage in in-person interactions as needed.
What We Would Like You to Have
- Master's degree from an accredited university is preferred.
- Experience designing and/or leading projects to completion, including coordinating and meeting deadlines.
- Experience working collaboratively with partners across the CU Boulder campus, as well as working in teams or small groups.
- Experience instructing online courses and at least two years of instructing at an institution of higher education.
- Experience creating courses on the Coursera platform.
- Experience working with the Canvas LMS to create online courses, or systems like Blackboard, Moodle, Desire2Learn.
- Proven experience researching and/or implementing new educational tools and technologies.
- Proven experience developing, consulting on, and/or implementing creative pedagogical methods, approaches, or strategies.
- Proven experience building, testing and troubleshooting auto-grading environments such as nbgrader, VSCode, Docker images, and custom graders.
- Design and media-related skills including web publication, graphic design and multimedia production, and basic HTML (or a healthy eagerness to learn!).
- Drive and vision to advocate for thoughtful pedagogy and design in scaled, online, and hybrid learning environments.
- Experience with hybrid remote and in-person work.
Special Instructions
To apply, please submit the following materials:
- A current resume.
- A cover letter that specifically tells us how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.
We may request references at a later time.
Please apply by July 16, 2024 for consideration.
Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, please apply through CU Boulder Jobs.
In compliance with the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Posting Contact Information
Posting Contact Name: Boulder Campus Human Resources
Posting Contact Email: Recruiting@colorado.edu