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Washtenaw Community College Temporary Learning Experience Designer - UA in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Position Summary: Washtenaw Community College maintains a long-time partnership with the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA) and works closely with the labor union and their education and training department to support their Instructor and Apprentice Training Programs. The Learning Experience Designer will work within the office of WCC/UA Instructional Technologies, a department under the office of Skilled Trades Training and part of the Division of Economic and College Development. The role involves collaborating with the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters to assist their instructors in developing in-class, hybrid, and remote courses within the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). In this capacity, the position will offer guidance and counsel on optimizing support for UA students, leveraging existing resources effectively, and innovating the creation of new learning materials. The goal is to enhance the overall educational experience for UA members by providing expert advice on strategies that empower both instructors and students within the UA framework.
This position is outside funded and will last at least two years. This position is required to work on campus 4 days per week.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Design & Development • Apply a range of design methods and learning theories to learner-centered course design. • Create courses and programs that prioritize diversity and equity, accessibility, student engagement, and culturally relevant course design. • Provide leadership, consultation, and coaching to UA instructors on backwards design, authentic assessment creation, facilitation of online community building, and incorporation of interactive learning objects. • Provide course teams and UA faculty partners with relevant examples that can serve to spark ideas and creative solutions that increase student comprehension. • Collaborate with UA subject matter experts to migrate existing Blackboard courses to the Canvas LMS. • Seek and propose innovative solutions to educational design challenges. • Create documentation and graphic organizers to guide faculty in creation and refinement of materials and assessments that will become part of the online experience. • Use HTML coding, branding, and template designs to create a consistent and engaging student experience. • Review course design decisions to ensure that activities, and resources are appropriately aligned with learning goals and desired course outcomes • Make research and evidence-based recommendations for course improvement. • Build interactive content using authoring tools, mapping, HTML coded interactives, community building tools and/or other applications. • Develop engaging videos and/or graphics using productivity software such as Articulate Storyline, Padlet, Canva, Adobe Suite, Office 365, and other engaging academic tools in conjunction with creative media team. • Research and implement emerging instructional design practices, instructional strategies, student engagement,
