Learning Experience Designer of AI and Innovative Technologies

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 group 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*

Innovative, AI, and innovative Technology Support (40%)

• Collaborate with faculty to design, implement, and evaluate funded AI and innovative technology initiatives
• Coordinate CAI’s Learning Experience Design support to ensure funded projects integrate effective teaching and learning practices
• Propose technical solutions to pedagogical design challenges through the thoughtful integration of educational technologies
• Work with faculty to identify desired success metrics and provide recommendations for measuring instructional impact
• Establish evaluation criteria that communicate success with projects with innovative technologies
• Maintain strong partnerships with faculty across multiple projects and units
• Provide insight and recommendations for future rounds of support for innovative technologies
• Collaborate with CAI Compliance colleagues to document best practices, ethical considerations, and responsible use frameworks
• Assist in developing workshops, presentations, and resources that enhance AI literacy among educators and learners
• Contribute to evaluation and dissemination of innovative technology pilot outcomes, including white papers and case studies
• Serve as an internal resource on the intentional and responsible use of AI and innovative technologies in teaching and learning
• Work collaboratively with faculty and CAI staff on AI teaching and learning projects, which may include design thinking, rapid prototyping and the design or development of chatbots, agents or learning tools as well as exploring new technologies and informing decisions for future use

Online Course Design (60%)

• Collaborate with faculty, program leaders, Learning Experience Designers, Design Managers, and Media Designers at the Center for Academic Innovation (CAI) to design high-quality online and hybrid courses
• Apply a range of instructional design methods and learning theories to learner-centered course design
• Collaborate with program administrators, faculty partners, and CAI staff to scope the goals of new and iterative course design projects for online courses
• Create and use learner personas for primary and secondary audiences, ensuring that diverse groups of learners are represented
• Provide course design teams and faculty partners with practical examples to spark ideas and creative solutions
• Support integration of practices that foll…