Instructional Designer

Title: Instructional Designer (Remote)

Location: USA

Full Time

Categories: Media / Publishing Education/Higher Education

Pearson Online Learning Services (POLS) is a leading provider of online higher education, delivering over 200 online degree programs in partnership with more than 30 academic institutions. Pearson Online Learning Services (POLS) adds life to a lifetime of learning. We are a community of educators, designers, marketers and entrepreneurs. We work across diverse disciplines and global boundaries to connect more students to top tier universities and colleges. We partner with higher education institutions to help them build and manage learner-centered, academically strong experiences that help learners to achieve success in career and life. Our team helps our academic partners translate their pedagogical visions into rich, engaging online experiences that deliver strong outcomes.

Providing strategy, planning, and research to help identify opportunities, prototype new offerings, and improve program performance. Enrolling students by building compelling marketing campaigns, improving recruitment, and opening new channels to reach qualified learners. Advising and supporting partners to rapidly expand non-degree offerings, including short courses, boot camps, and other forms of experiential, team-based learnings. Support and coaching learners to improve recruitment, retention, satisfaction, and graduation rates.

Summary:

The Instructional Designer is responsible for the development and revision of curricular products for Pearson partners/clients. This position works directly with subject matter experts, partner/client personnel, quality assurance staff, and multimedia developers. The Instructional Designer will work as an integral part of a collaborative instructional design team responsible for the assessment, design, development, and evaluation of online, hybrid, and/or traditional courses and learning experiences. This individual will conceptualize and storyboard instructionally sound, interactive, engaging web-based course components and input these components into learning management systems.

General Responsibilities:

• Manages the curriculum development process for new and revision courses and learning experiences and assures that courses adhere to partner/client standards.
• Develops and supports partner/client-chosen online learning environments.
• Provides instructional design consultation to faculty of partners/clients and/or subject matter experts; assists faculty of partners/clients and/or subject matter experts in the development of contextually-rich, engaging, and objective-driven courses and learning experiences that focus on applicable real-world/workplace skills.
• Works within a project management application to document course development process data including time tracking, project comments, and task completion.
• Designs content for delivery in online environments and completes instructional design documentation to ensure quality and consistency.
• Conducts photo research for images to supplement learning activities.
• Uses WYSIWYG multimedia tools to develop multimedia pieces.
• Communicates regularly with partner/client faculty and/or subject matter experts during curriculum development process.
• Builds course content/components into the learning management system.
• Conceptualizes and storyboards instructionally sound, interactive, engaging web-based course components.
• Conducts quality assurance reviews on courses and implements revisions. Collaborates with quality assurance staff.
• Reviews existing courses for quality, currency, and consistency and works with faculty to enhance curriculum design as needed.
• Participates in university ID team meetings.
• Helps to test and implement agreed-upon emerging technologies in courses and learning experiences.
• Prepares course hand-off documentation, facilitators’ guides, etc., and attends hand-off meetings with the Student Support Services and Help Desk teams.
• Attends course revision calls and creates scope documents outlining confirmed revisions from post-course discussions.

General Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education, instructional design, curriculum, educational technology, or a related degree is required; master’s degree is preferred.
• Minimum of three years’ experience in instructional design with experience in designing authentic assessments and generative learning experiences. Experience in higher education is preferred.
• Knowledge of adult learning principles, Understanding by Design, constructivism, facilitation, and learner-centered activities.
• Ability to provide instructional design consulting services to subject matter experts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in learning management systems with knowledge of accessibility standards. Experience in html or css preferred.
• Ability to be creative, flexible, and innovative in course design.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize, adhere to budgets, and meet deadlines.
• Exceptionally strong attention to detail.
• Comfort in working within project management applications.

Additional information:

Pearson is currently holding the Pearson Online Learning Services business under strategic review to assess the optimal long-term ownership structure in the future.

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the Colorado and New York City laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:

Minimum full-time salary range is between $60,000.00-65,000.00 USD