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About the role

  • Instructional Designer creating accessible, interactive online learning for University of Alberta credit and continuing education programs. Collaborating with academics and SMEs from planning through launch.

Responsibilities

  • Assess learning needs and recommend learning outcomes, modalities, and instructional approaches
  • Integrate Indigenous Initiatives and Access, Community and Belonging into design and development work
  • Apply best practices in online learning, Universal Design for Learning, WCAG, accessibility, and digital learning experience/user experience design
  • Facilitate persona, onboarding, and content framework development with academics, subject matter experts, instructors, and partners
  • Develop or refine learning outcomes with academic leads and subject matter experts in alignment with assessment matrices
  • Guide development and refinement of online content, activities, assessments, interactives, and multimedia
  • Provide substantive editing and instructional design recommendations
  • Recommend and coordinate technologies, third-party tools, multimedia, and digital assets
  • Advise on copyright compliance and accessibility requirements
  • Collaborate with Learning Experience Developers, vendors, and partners on production and implementation
  • Coordinate with marketing and communications teams to support promotion of online offerings
  • Conduct course quality reviews, accessibility checks, and User Acceptance Testing
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of OCE quality standards, processes, and practices
  • Provide instructor onboarding and support
  • Collaborate with the Centre for Teaching and Learning and other teaching and learning partners
  • Coordinate projects to deliver on time, on budget, and to a high standard
  • Track project activities, timelines, deliverables, and status
  • Contribute to team communication, collaboration, process improvement, professional development, research, conferences, workshops, and team culture

Requirements

  • An Undergraduate degree in educational technology, instructional design, adult education or a related field is required
  • A diploma with extensive instructional design experience may be considered
  • A minimum of three years of online instructional design work experience
  • Experience creating online courses within various learning management systems and course authoring tools, including Articulate Rise & Storyline
  • Experience consulting, supporting, and including Indigenous Initiatives and Access, Community and Belonging across the digital learning experience
  • Experience developing learner personas, content frameworks, and storyboards
  • Experience in project management and the tools, approaches, and phases of the project lifecycle
  • Ability to design online learning using varied modalities, technologies, and multimedia
  • Strong coaching and facilitation skills
  • Ability to provide instructional design recommendations to clients and partners
  • Experience with editing, quality assurance, and user acceptance testing
  • Familiarity with copyright legislation and compliance
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
  • Experience designing credit, non-credit, and corporate digital learning experiences is preferred
  • Experience in planning, design, and development of micro-credentials is an asset
  • Experience and knowledge of web, graphic design, and multimedia development, including HTML, CSS, Adobe, Camtasia, and Dreamweaver, is an asset

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Collective agreement terms and conditions between the Governors of the University of Alberta and the Non-Academic Staff Association (NASA)
  • Hybrid work arrangement with a mix of remote and in-person work

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$65,891 - CA$91,196 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridEdmontonCanada

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