Columbia College is hiring: Instructional Designer in Chicago

Columbia College Chicago is an acclaimed undergraduate and graduate institution that provides a comprehensive education in the arts, communications, and public relations. We constantly aim to reach our full potential as an educational innovator, incubator of new creative practice and generator of real-world success for young creatives. We are in the heart of Chicago, across the street from historic Grant Park, and housed in some of the most iconic buildings in the South Loop.

Columbia College Chicago is a private urban institution of approximately 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students, four-year College offering a distinctive curriculum that blends liberal arts, creative and media arts and business is currently searching for an INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER.

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Director of Academic Technology, the Instructional Designer applies learning theories, instructional design principles, and user experience principles to create engaging learning experiences that support student success. Working collaboratively with faculty and subject matter experts, the Instructional Designer contributes to the Academic Technology team and supports engaging and effective online, hybrid, and face-to-face course delivery. This position designs, develops, and builds high-quality, accessible courses in the LMS. The Instructional Designer provides training of emerging technologies and supports faculty in the creation of course media.

Flex work options available.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Apply pedagogical learning theories, instructional design models, and best practices in online and other innovative teaching modalities to design and build instructional content in alignment with learning objectives.

• Maintain project timelines for online course development, managing multiple projects simultaneously.

• Collaborate with faculty on the pedagogical design and development of curriculum content and develop strategies to convert to online or hybrid environment.

• Work with faculty to recommend, develop, and implement aligned learning assessments, rubrics, and testing strategies.

• Assist faculty in developing reusable learning content (video, lecture capture, master or blueprint courses) that integrate into their courses.

• Collaborate with team members and faculty to develop technology-enriched course materials using new and emerging instructional technologies, digital media, web-based technologies, etc.

• Provide technical support for online course delivery in both synchronous and asynchronous learning environments.

• Support the offering of ADA, Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 compliant content for all courses (i.e. ensure all videos, content, and graphics are properly developed with ADA and Section 508 guidelines).

• Consult with faculty, instructional designers, and staff in selecting effective instructional strategies and specific technologies such as Canvas and Office 365 applications (OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, etc.), Qualtrics, Panopto, Adobe Creative Suite and other web-based academic technologies.

• Assist faculty in effectively integrating advanced instructional technologies in online, hybrid and face-to-face courses.

• Design, develop, and facilitate training workshops to introduce faculty and students to emerging instructional technologies and demonstrate effective application in teaching and learning.

• Maintain faculty development training website by using the College’s Employment Management System hosted within Microsoft O365.  This includes managing attendees and events, producing training reports, and facilitating the set-up of faculty development training events.

• Create reference materials (help documents, how-to guides, videos, courses) that guide faculty, staff, and students in using the college’s Learning Management System and other related academic technologies.

• Provide technical, help-desk support to faculty and students on a variety of technology applications.

• Confidently research and obtain answers to technology issues (some advanced) related to Canvas, Office 365 applications (OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, etc.), Qualtrics, Panopto, Qwickly, Zoom, Adobe Creative Suite, and other web-based technologies.

• Submit and maintain customer support tickets using Team

• Dynamix ticketing system.

• Assist in testing new features and piloting emerging instructional technology solutions in conjunction with Information Technology and various other campus-wide departments.

• Assist as system administrator for various technology applications, such as Canvas and Teams.  

• Remain current with evolving instructional technologies and trends, providing innovative and creative course design, development, and delivery options and services.

• Engage with associations that deal with Instructional Design or Academic Technology, such as Educause, Quality Matters, Online Learning Consortium, Slate Group and other professional associations to keep abreast of best practices and current technologies.

• Perform other related duties and/or responsibilities as assigned or required.