Instructional Designer, School of Information Technology, CECH

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Founded in 1819, the University of Cincinnati ranks among the nation’s best urban public research universities. Home to over 50,000 students, 11,000 faculty and staff and 332,000 alumni, UC combines a Top 35 public research university with a physical setting The New York Times calls “the most ambitious campus design program in the country.”

 

With the launch of Next Lives Here, the Cincinnati Innovation District, a $100 million JobsOhio investment, nine straight years of record enrollment, global leadership in cooperative education, a dynamic academic health center and entry into the Big 12 Conference, UC’s momentum has never been stronger. UC’s annual budget tops $1.65 billion and its endowment totals $1.8 billion.

About the School of Information Technology

The School of Information Technology (SoIT) is a national leader in studying solutions and needs that connect people, information, and the technology of the time. The SoIT is home to Ohio's first Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Information Technology. In addition, it is home to Ohio's first ABET accredited Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity. The SoIT has been growing at 20% annually and currently serves more than 2,000 students with 31 full-time faculty members, 24 full-time staff, and 32 adjunct faculty. The SoIT is home to several centers including an NSA/DHS Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense, the Information Technology Solutions Center, the Ohio Cyber Range Institute, Applied Machine Learning and Intelligence Center, the Justice, Law, and Information Technology Institute, and the Civic Technology Center.

 

The SoIT is a diverse, interdisciplinary, team-oriented, mission-driven, dynamic and entrepreneurial environment. It empowers individuals to become passionate, solutionminded Information Technology professionals by fostering continuous innovation, research, leadership development, interdisciplinary problem solving, and real-world experience. More information about the SoIT can be found at https://cech.uc.edu/schools/it.html.

Job Overview

The instructional designer is a member of the Course Success team and is responsible for ensuring that courses offered by the SoIT are aligned with the SoIT’s ambitious goal of being a global destination for information technology education. We are looking for a mission driven, team oriented, ambitious individual who wants to serve, make a difference, and strives to perform at competitive levels of excellence.  The instructional designer will support the various sectors of the SoIT including program and course outcomes’ assessment process, faculty, and student engagement with recent technologies, and be responsible for developing and auditing course modules following the Quality Matters rubrics. This position will help develop course assessments and associated evaluation rubrics and instructional resources for all undergraduate and graduate courses. Further duties include attending meetings as needed statewide and potentially nationwide, maintaining relationships with the College Instructional Design Office, coordinating, and contributing to training sessions, and ensuring the course content meets university accessibility standards. 

Essential Functions

• Work as part of a team to manage online courses, program development, and resolve Learning Management System (LMS) issues. 
• Assist faculty and subject matter experts (SMEs) in the development of online and technology-facilitated courses. 
• Conduct faculty training and develop “best practice” webinars and training materials. 
• Support the academic programs to implement new technologies and approaches for online learning. 
• Assist faculty with utilizing web-based resources, multimedia technologies, and instructional software and systems for online course development; collaborate with internal and external business partners that are critical to the success of the course such as faculty, technology/multimedia staff, virtual learning management staff, and department academic support staff to assist with course development, implementation, and problem resolution. 
• Develop and support current and new online courses according to established procedures; ensure that the developments of instructional materials for online courses are consistent with sound instructional design principles and standards; utilize a variety of software development tools. 
• Assess the effectiveness of the experiences and revise in response to feedback. 
• Contribute to ongoing research, evaluation and design of online courses and programs. 
• Maintain a c