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Instructional Design Specialist, Lead

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Georgia State University
Location
Atlanta, GA

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DescriptionPutting technology to work at Georgia State University. Are you passionate about technology, your clients’ success, and looking to make a difference? Ranked the #2 Most Innovative National University by US News and World Report, Georgia State is a leading force in the digital transformation of higher education. Georgia State's central technology services group, Instructional Innovation and Technology (IIT), seeks to inspire, support, and enable innovative solutions to advance learning, research and economic enterprise. IIT is leading the pursuit to find solutions to the unique challenges associated with information technology and serve as leaders in a global network of knowledge creation and sharing by earning the role of valued partners and trusted advisors for evolving technology solutions, discovering, creating and implementing new models of higher education for a community of diverse learners, creating and supporting innovative solutions that improve the lives of our students, our city and our state, attracting, developing and retaining talented and capable professionals and fostering an innovative culture of leaders where collaboration, ownership, creativity and efficiency are key.

 Georgia State University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) is looking for two (2) skilled and experienced instructional designers to help develop new online courses and programs and to improve student outcomes in existing online offerings. Partnering with faculty, multimedia developers, graphic designers, learning analysts, learning technology specialists, and other experts. CETL Instructional Designers provide leadership critical to creating innovative, data-driven, and standards-compliant courses that deepen student learning, integrate student success resources, improve the student experience, and take full advantage of the affordances of modern digital  learning pedagogies and technologies. Applying their expertise in design, collaboration facilitation, education, and digital learning technologies, CETL Instructional Designers will be key to improving online student outcomes and expanding the success and reach of Georgia State’s student success mission.

 

The scope responsibility will include these essential duties but is not limited to the following:

 Both individually and as a team member, apply instructional design principles and pedagogical best practices to create professional quality learning objects and online environments that meet the specific needs of project stakeholders.

 Instructional Design

  • Build or integrate web-based learning resources – LMS and LMS – integrated tools; productivity software; web conferencing tools; websites, blogs and other web applications – into face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses.

  • Use templates to construct learning objects, modules, units, and courses.

  • Contribute to the design, assessment, customization, and continuous improvement of instructional design templates.

  • Consult with faculty on the development of course curricula and learning activities.

  • Develop activities and assessments connected to measurable learning objectives.

  • Use a variety of computing platforms, software, audio-visual equipment, and other technologies to design solutions to pedagogical challenges.

Work individually and collaboratively to meet deadlines and expectations set for course and program design projects.

 Collaboration and Communication

  • Organize, prioritize, schedule multiple work assignments to enable positive contributions to project teams.

  • Respond in a timely and professional manner to requests for information.

  • Adhere to communications and transparency guidelines, as established by project leads and managers.

  • Attend and be a positive contributor at check-in and team meetings

  • Participate in work-related community events.

Coordinate Instructional Design project work.

  • Leadership and Project Management

  • Serve as project manager for instructional design projects, communicating progress to instructional design leads and management.

Stay up to date on emerging trends and technologies related to learning solutions development and instructional design.

 Professional Development, Research, and Outreach

  • Attend and present at professional conferences, webinars, training sessions, or workshops.

  • Professional Development, Research, and Outreach

  • Read professional books, articles, newsfeeds, and blogs.

  • Share new findings and insights with colleagues and stakeholders.



QualificationsBachelor's degree and three years of related experience; or a combination of education and related experience.



College/Business Unit09/30/20, 11:59:00 PM

College/Business Unit: Instructional Innovation & Technology
Location: Atlanta Campus
Job Posting: 09/18/20, 12:00:00 AM

Organization

Founded in 1913 in Atlanta, Georgia State University is the second-largest and one of four research institutions in the University System of Georgia. The University serves one-fourth of the graduate students in the university system; it is within a one-hour commute of more than one-third of the state’s population. Approximately 80 percent of all Georgia State alumni live and work in Georgia.georgia_state_university1.jpg

Georgia State’s main campus is located on 34 acres in downtown Atlanta. University centers in Alpharetta, Brookhaven, Buckhead and Henry County offer students convenient suburban locations for graduate courses in business and education.

More than 50,000 students annually attend Georgia State University. While 90 percent of the students are from Georgia, students also come from all 50 states and 160 countries. More than 1,400 international students attend Georgia State and graduate students comprise 31 percent of the student population.

georgia_state_university2.jpgThe University offers more than 52 degree programs in more than 250 fields of study – from public policy and African-American studies to biology and health sciences. Degrees are offered at the bachelor’s, master’s, specialist and doctoral levels through six units: the College of Arts and Sciences, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, College of Education, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Law and Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. In addition to the numerous degree programs, Georgia State offers full- and part-time programs and day, evening and weekend classes.

Students have many choices in extracurricular activities including more than 22 fraternities and sororities; and some 250 chartered student groups, including 60 degree-related student groups, seven religious, 24 law-oriented and 22 multicultural/international groups; and 10 honor societies. There is also an active student government association which includes the student senate and the judicial board.

The Georgia State Panthers are members of the Colonial Athletic Association and compete in 16 NCAA Division I intercollegiate men’s and women’s sports, including basketball, baseball, softball, golf, tennis, track and volleyball. The university announced in April 2008 that is will begin Division I-AA football in 2010.

The university’s innovative Touch the Earth program brings outdoor recreation ranging from backpacking, rock climbing, sailing, kayaking, rafting and water-skiing to out-of-state snow-skiing and snorkeling trips. And WRAS, Georgia State’s popular 100,000-watt radio voice, is the most powerful student-run radio station in the United States.

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