Instructional Design Specialist; Online Teaching and AI Focus University of North Caroli

The Instructional Design Specialist (AI Focus) serves the academic mission of the university as a strategic team member within the Center for Teaching and Learning, supporting initiatives that build a future-facing, technology-rich educational experience geared towards student success and career readiness. This role is the first point of contact for instructional design that increases and enhances effective online teaching structures, content, and pedagogies, and takes the lead on supporting faculty and staff on the purposeful integration of artificial intelligence in UNC Asheville’s liberal arts and sciences educational practices in order to create an an AI-competent workforce prepared to thrive in a digital world.

Reporting to the Director of the CTL, this position will build faculty and staff competencies in the use of Generative AI tools for teaching and learning, informed by AI literacy, human-centered ethical AI use, and creative and public-facing pedagogical applications. The person in this position will serve as an expert in learning theory, instructional design, and emerging educational technologies, acting as a bridge between faculty and new tools.

This role also includes creating and facilitating training systems and credentialing for online teaching quality enhancement processes, which may include an online course, training modules, or other mechanisms. Providing resources related to digital accessibility for all learners will be central to this work. The Instructional Design Specialist (AI Focus) will provide faculty and staff with: consultation; training; tutorials in modalities that meet the levels and time availability of our faculty;

problem solving; AI literacy; career readiness with AI; educational technology support; support for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning online teaching and/or AI projects; digital and AI accessibility; and creating systems that incentivize faculty and staff participation in building a culture of curiosity and creativity in online teaching and AI integration in our liberal arts and sciences context.

This position will be responsible for partnering with various entities within departments and across the university (Informational Technology Services, Academic Success Center, Career Center, etc.), other UNC system schools, and system office working groups to implement online teaching and AI policies and procedures for instructional use. The position will provide expertise in the creation of an AI-Literacy informed curriculum and pedagogies for faculty and students as one subsection of other AI-related working groups on research, employee use, governance and policies, etc.