Learning Experience Designer Senior for Faculty Development

How to Apply

A cover letter and resume are important submissions for the hiring team to get a sense of your experience. In the cover letter, in two pages or less, please let us know how this role aligns with your career aspirations and skill set. Submit both a cover letter and resume as one file (because of system limitations).

Who We Are

About the Center for Academic Innovation

Through curricular innovation, tools for student success, and educational research and analytics, the University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation is building the future of education. Our vision is a future in which education connects and empowers learners everywhere to reach their full potential throughout their lives. To realize our vision, we make it our mission to collaborate across campus and around the world to create equitable, lifelong educational opportunities for learners everywhere.

About Online Learning at CAI

The Online Learning team within CAI consists of four teams that collaborate with others across the Center and University to design and develop online learning experiences that support the future of education for a global community. We work with faculty and academic unit leaders to envision how they can expand reach and impact, advance innovative teaching, and support greater access and lifelong learning through the design and development of integrated online learning experiences. Our teams focus on the following areas:

• Strategic sourcing of new opportunities for online learning
• Developing internal and external partnerships that promote engagement with learning experiences
• Providing program management services throughout degree program development and operations
• Supporting end-to-end design and development of online learning experiences, including design management, learning experience design, and iteration of learning experiences after they have launched
• Supporting learners success and engagement in live courses and programs

For more information, please visit our website: Academic Innovation.

Responsibilities*

Faculty Development (35%)

• Design, lead, and evaluate professional development opportunities across multiple modalities focused on effective and evidence-based practices for online and hybrid teaching.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, events, consultations, office hours, and cohort-based learning experiences that anticipate and respond to the evolving needs of faculty, academic units, and CAI’s online learning portfolio
• Identify, engage, and coordinate faculty, staff, and other subject-matter experts to contribute to professional development programs and resources
• Develop and customize teaching resources, learning experiences, and training materials to address institutional, program-specific, and discipline-specific needs
• Create stand-alone resources that support instructors in designing, developing, and teaching high-quality online and hybrid courses
• Support faculty throughout the course-development lifecycle, including preparing instructors to transition from course design and development into online teaching and facilitation.
• Cultivate communities of practice that connect instructors engaged in online and hybrid teaching with colleagues and members of CAI’s learning experience design community
• Partner with CAI’s Marketing and Market Strategy team to develop practical, evidence-informed content for the Online Teaching website

Non-Credit Faculty Readiness and Experience (35%)

• Develop and apply readiness criteria that clarify when projects are prepared to transition into design and identify unresolved decisions or risks that should be addressed before design begins
• Design and facilitate pre-design workshops, consultations, and resources that help faculty make foundational decisions and understand the expectations of the course-development process
• Collaborate with faculty, academic units, and CAI teams to identify project needs, surface areas of ambiguity, and connect faculty with appropriate expertise and resources before design begins
• Serve as an advocate for the non-credit faculty experience throughout the project lifecycle, bringing insights from faculty interactions to relevant CAI teams and leaders
• Establish milestones and feedback mechanisms to assess faculty readiness, experience, and sentiment and use those findings to strengthen services and processes
• Provide Online Learning domain leadership with recommendations …