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The Division of Information Technology - Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching is currently recruiting for Instructional Designers (SL3) and Senior Instructional Designers (SL4)

 

Instructional Designer (SL3)-Required Qualifications (as evidenced by an attached resume):Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent or higher). Two years of full-time experience working in instructional design. Experience using instructional technologies. Experience with designing, developing, and delivering instructional workshops and/or courses.Preferred Qualifications: Advanced Degree (or foreign equivalent or higher). Additional years experience working in instructional design. Experience applying technology-based tools and resources to course design. Experience teaching credit-bearing higher education courses. Experience building online/hybrid courses. Experience with assessment techniques. Experience with active learning instructional methods. Experience applying instructional design theory, learning theory principles and applications of media to instructional scenarios. Quality Matters Certified Higher Ed Peer Reviewer, Quality Matters Teaching Online Certificate, or OLC Online Teaching Certificate.Brief Description of Duties:The Instructional Designer will provide pedagogical support for faculty through consultation and dissemination of relevant instructional techniques and technologies. The position will provide academic instructional design consulting, guidance and support to faculty and TA's, and will collaborate with content developers and other instructional designers and technologists for the consistent delivery of exemplary courses.Provide pedagogical support for faculty and other academic personnel in the educational design and development of learner-centered courses, instructional materials and active learning strategies.Work collaboratively with technical experts, media specialists, assessment specialists, learning space specialists, and others to enable faculty to implement quality improvement in their courses and advance student learning. Collaborate with senior instructional designers for the consistent development and redesign of exemplary courses.Design, develop and deliver workshops and online training for faculty and staff on pedagogical best practices and appropriate integration of instructional technologies, encompassing learning objectives, active learning strategies, assessment methods, learning space design, use of technology in the classroom and other topics related to University teaching.Engage in professional development to stay abreast of learning theories, pedagogical, and technological developments. Research current trends and developments in instructional design and innovative teaching strategies. Participate in local, state, regional and national professional associations, conferences and committees as appropriate. In performance of these job duties, at all times be responsible for delivering optimal customer service, for protecting institutional data and privacy, and the excellent delivery of solutions and services by following divisional and University policies, procedures, and processes.Other duties or projects as assigned as appropriate to rank and department mission.Senior Instructional Designer (SL4)- Required Qualifications (as evidenced by an attached resume):Master's degree (foreign equivalent or higher). Three years of full-time experience working in instructional design applying instructional design theory, learning theory principles and applications of media to instructional scenarios. Experience using instructional technologies. Experience with designing, developing, and delivering instructional workshops and/or courses. Experience building online/hybrid courses. Experience with assessment techniques. Experience with active learning instructional methods. Quality Matters Certified Higher Ed Peer Reviewer, Quality Matters Teaching Online Certificate, or OLC Online Teaching Certificate.Preferred Qualifications:Advanced Degree (foreign equivalent or higher). Experience applying technology-based tools and resources. Experience teaching credit-bearing higher education courses. Additional years of  experience working in instructional design applying instructional design theory, learning theory principles and applications of media to instructional scenarios.

 

 

Brief Description of Duties:

The Senior Instructional Designer will provide high-level subject matter expert pedagogical advisement for faculty through consultation and dissemination of relevant instructional techniques and technologies. The position will provide high-level, focused academic instructional design consulting, guidance and support to faculty and TA's, and will collaborate with content developers and other instructional designers and technologists for the consistent delivery of exemplary courses.

Applying subject matter expert advisement, consult with faculty and other academic personnel in the educational design and development of advanced learner-centered courses, instructional materials and active learning strategies.

Work collaboratively with technical experts, media specialists, assessment specialists, learning space specialists, and others to enable faculty to implement quality improvement in their courses and advance student learning.

Design, develop and deliver advanced workshops and online training for faculty and staff on pedagogical best practices and appropriate integration of instructional technologies, encompassing learning objectives, active learning strategies, assessment methods, learning space design, use of technology in the classroom and other topics related to University teaching.

Provide guidance and expertise to entry level Instructional designers.

Engage in professional development to stay abreast of learning theories, pedagogical, and technological developments. Research current trends and developments in instructional design and innovative teaching strategies. Participate in local, state, regional and national professional associations, conferences and committees as appropriate. In performance of these job duties, at all times be responsible for delivering optimal customer service, for protecting institutional data and privacy, and the excellent delivery of solutions and services by following divisional and University policies, procedures, and processes.

Other duties or projects as assigned as appropriate to rank and department mission.

  

Special Notes:

This is a full time appointment. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Minimum salary threshold must be met to maintain FLSA exemption.
 

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Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island's scenic North  Shore. Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff. SBU is a comprehensive research-intensive university and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), which includes 34 public universities among its 62 members. SBU consists of 12 schools and colleges and a teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art healthcare in the Long Island region. SBU also manages and performs joint research with Brookhaven National Laboratory, the only Department of Energy Laboratory in the Northeast, and shares doctoral programs with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a world-renowned molecular biology institute. Home to the Emerson String Quartet, the Jackson Pollock House in East Hampton, New York, the Humanities Institute, and the Southampton Arts Program, and with endeavors that extend to the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar, SBU sustains an international reputation that cuts across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

 

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Job Field: Information Technology
Primary Location: US-NY-Stony Brook
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Shift
Posting Start Date: Apr 15, 2019
Posting End Date: Apr 22, 2019, 10:59:00 PM