Hybrid Instructional Designer: Transforming Online Courses

Valparaiso University; Valparaiso (IN); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Valparaiso University’s Center for Innovation in Teaching, Assessment, and Learning seeks an Instructional Designer to support faculty-wide online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses. You will design, develop and evaluate courses, applying best practices in teaching and learning across the university.

You will partner with faculty, deliver workshops on instructional technology, manage multiple projects, and help transition courses to hybrid or online formats while ensuring alignment with outcomes

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in instructional design, instructional technology, education, or a related field.
• Three or more years’ experience designing online or hybrid courses in an educational environment.
• Strong knowledge of learning theories, effective teaching and learning practices, and instructional design models.
• Strong organizational skills, project and time-management skills, and attention to detail.
• Visual and multimedia design skills, including the ability to storyboard.
• Ability to build relationships, synthesize input from multiple stakeholders, and work collaboratively with faculty and staff across the University.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience working collaboratively on team-based projects.
• Experience with teaching technologies, including Learning Management Systems (LMS) and online creation and delivery platforms.
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Partner with faculty across the university to design, develop, and support new and existing courses and programs in one-on-one and programmatic settings.
• Provide workshops on instructional technology and pedagogical topics relevant to teaching and learning.
• Manage multiple projects involving different stakeholders to ensure timely development and delivery of courses and programs.
• Assist faculty to integrate course design elements that promote best practices for online and hybrid course design, accessibility, mission-related teaching practices, and alignment with course/program outcomes.
• Collaborate with faculty and departments to transition face-to-face courses and programs to hybrid or online environments.
• Work with faculty to evaluate and revise existing courses to enhance the learning experience for students.

Skills

Instructional design

Learning theories

Project management

Communication

Collaboration

Storyboarding

LMS proficiency

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Canvas LMS

Zoom

Google Workspace

Job description

Valparaiso University’s Center for Innovation in Teaching, Assessment, and Learning seeks an Instructional Designer to support faculty-wide online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses. You will design, develop and evaluate courses, applying best practices in teaching and learning across the university.

You will partner with faculty, deliver workshops on instructional technology, manage multiple projects, and help transition courses to hybrid or online formats while ensuring alignment with outcomes