Instructional Designer - eCampus

Overview

Job Title:

Instructional Designer - eCampus


Location:

Middle GA State University
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job : 293949

Middle Georgia State University (MGA), a multi-campus, baccalaureate and graduate degree granting public institution, is the most affordable public state university in Georgia. MGA has five campuses—Macon, Cochran, Dublin, Eastman, and Warner Robins—all located in central Georgia—and global outreach through its fully-online campus. Its enrollment of 8,400 students is largely comprised of students from most of Georgia's 159 counties. The University has six academic schools, including Georgia's flagship aviation program, that support its mission to educate and graduate inspired, lifelong learners whose scholarship and careers enhance the state.

Job Summary: This Instructional Designer position reports primarily to the Vice Provost of Education Outreach at Middle Georgia State University (MGA) and secondarily to the Director of Instructional Development and Design at eCampus, a unit of the University System of Georgia (USG). This position splits the workload and accountability evenly between MGA and eCampus in the following structure:

For both organizations, this position will rely on a data-driven, continuous improvement approach to support subject matter experts in analyzing, developing, designing, implementing, and evaluating course content to improve course delivery and student outcomes while abiding by SACSCOC and BOR accreditation guidelines and accessibility requirements of Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This position also provides LMS technical support to the teaching faculty of both organizations for assigned programs, maintaining a current knowledge base of best practices in instructional design and delivery by actively researching trends in instructional technology and making recommendations for process improvements.

This is an on-campus position.

The Instructional Designer is expected to stay well-versed in research into existing and emerging instructional design technologies and methodologies, especially those relating to online education, and thus makes well-informed recommendations for new solutions as appropriate to the Vice Provost. The Instructional Designer consults with and assists faculty to develop instructional strategies, activities, and materials that optimize learning and assessment in their courses.

The Instructional Designer provides training, professional development, instructional design, and LMS-related support for faculty and staff as assigned by the Vice Provost and collects and analyzes related outcomes-based data.

• MGA:
  Support for Instructional Practices (30%) - Assist faculty with a wide variety of pedagogical and andragogical instructional strategies, activities, and materials in order to optimize learning quality and assessment by incorporating research-based practices.
• Provide in-person (one-on-one and group) and telecommunication-based training, instructional design, and other support for faculty and staff as assigned by the APAS.
• Integrate web-based learning resources specifically, Brightspace by D2L, LMS-integrated tools, productivity software, video conferencing tools, websites, blogs, and other web applications into courses.
• Organize, prioritize, and schedule multiple work assignments to enable positive contributions to the CETL team.
• Respond in timely and professional ways to requests for information…