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Mid LevelFull-timeGit
Salary Range
$72,250 - $97,750 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
The Learning Designer is a member of the Learning Experience and Design (LXD) team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). This role focuses on designing and developing pedagogically sound online and blended credit courses, and other technology-enhanced instructional materials.
Key Responsibilities
- →Engage with key stakeholders to support design and development of pedagogically sound online and blended credit courses
- →Collaborate with a diverse, distributed content generation team to translate design ideas into original scripts, animations, simulations, and written resources
- →Ensure that programs meet standards, including accreditation requirements
- →Develop training materials and documentation for teaching and course-delivery teams
- →Conduct rapid prototyping of course elements; pilot with teaching team and target learners as appropriate
- →Create feedback rubrics and implement automated feedback based on user input
- →Contribute to program evaluation efforts to track usage, satisfaction, retention, and efficacy
- →Collaborate with HGSE’s Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL) to co-develop programs
- →Develop and revise digital assets using HGSE-supported authoring tools
- →Build courses on multiple platforms, including Harvard’s Learning Experience Platform (LXP)
- →Liaise with learning technologists to explore integrations of 3rd-party or custom tools
- →Develop workplan, key milestones, and list of deliverables for learning design and online course builds
- →Work to keep projects on task and on budget, elevating problem areas to senior leadership when required
- →Provide project leadership on digital asset creation projects
- →Research and evaluate new and emerging technologies, instructional design theories, and approaches
Requirements
- ✓Familiarity with key principles in learner-centered design (Backwards Design, Design Thinking, etc.)
- ✓Experience with HGSE-supported authoring tools (Articulate, iDesign, Adobe, Canva, etc.)
- ✓Ability to develop and revise digital assets
- ✓Experience building courses on multiple platforms
- ✓Experience with Harvard’s Learning Experience Platform (LXP)
- ✓Strong project management skills
- ✓Ability to research and evaluate new and emerging technologies, instructional design theories, and approaches
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