Online Course Design Assistant

Oakland University; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Oakland University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) seeks a motivated, recent graduate to help build engaging, self-paced online learning opportunities for faculty development programs. You will help develop online modules, create templates, and support digital accessibility efforts to foster inclusive teaching practices.

The ideal candidate has foundational instructional design experience and will adapt live workshop materials for online use while collaborating with SMEs

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Foundational experience in developing self-paced online modules or courses.
• Familiarity with Moodle and interactive content tools such as H5P.
• Ability to evaluate digital materials for accessibility and apply accessibility standards.
• Strong written communication and ability to synthesize information into structured documents and templates.
• Ability to collaborate with faculty and SMEs to gather and refine content.

Responsibilities

• Develop self-paced online modules for university professors using LMS such as eSpace and Moodle.
• Design interactive online components utilizing H5P and adapt live materials for online audiences.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to guide content and teaching frameworks.
• Create course build processes, starter documents, and templates for future course development.
• Apply digital accessibility standards to content, websites, documents, and videos using Panorama.

Skills

Instructional design

Technical writing

Collaboration

Digital accessibility

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Moodle

H5P

Panorama

eSpace

Job description

Oakland University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) seeks a motivated, recent graduate to help build engaging, self-paced online learning opportunities for faculty development programs. You will help develop online modules, create templates, and support digital accessibility efforts to foster inclusive teaching practices.

The ideal candidate has foundational instructional design experience and will adapt live workshop materials for online use while collaborating with SMEs