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If you are interested in this position, please send an email to jobs@edx.org

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Learning Designer/Interaction Learning Designer

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The Learning Designer will work as part of the content and development team to plan, develop and deliver highly engaging and media rich online courses. The learning designer will be a flexible thinker, able to determine and apply sound pedagogical strategies to unique situations and a diverse set of academic disciplines.

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Specific Responsibilities include:

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  • Work with producers, product developers and course staff on implementing instructional design approaches in the development of media and other course materials.
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  • Articulate learning objectives and align them to content design strategy and assessments.
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  • Write effective instructional text, and audio and video scripts.
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  • Coordinate workflows with video and content development team
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  • Identify best practices and share these with the course staff and faculty as needed.
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  • Create course communication style guides. Train and coach teaching staff on best practices for communication and discussion management.
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  • Develop use case guides as needed on the use of edX courseware and new technologies.
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  • Serve as a liaison to instructional design teams located at X universities.
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  • Design peer review processes to be used by learners in selected courses.
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  • Ability to apply game-based learning theory and design into selected courses as appropriate.
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  • Use learning analytics and metrics to inform course design and revision process.
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  • Work closely with the Content Research Director on articulating best practices for MOOC teaching and learning and course design.
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  • Assist in the development of pilot courses used for sponsored research initiatives.
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Qualifications:

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Master's Degree in Educational Technology, Instructional Design or related field. Experience in higher education with additional experience in a start-up or research environment desirable. Excellent interpersonal and communication (written and verbal), project management, problem-solving and time management skills. The ability to be flexible with projects and to work on multiple courses essential. Ability to meet deadlines and manage expectations of constituents. Capacity to develop new and relevant technology skills.  Experience using game theory design and learning analytics to inform instructional design decisions and strategy.

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Video and screencasting experience. LMS Platform experience, xml, HTML, CSS, Adobe Design Suite, Camtasia or Captivate experience. Experience with web 2.0 collaboration tools.

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If you are interested in this position, please send an email to jobs@edx.org

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Production Coordinator

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The Production Coordinator supports video editors and course staff in all video related tasks, such as ingesting footage, transcoding, tracking live dates, transcriptions, organizing project deliverables and archiving completed projects.

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Primary responsibilities:

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  • route incoming source footage, and apply metadata tags
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    • traffic files among project staff and video transcription services
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    • coordinate transcript reviews with course staff
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    • integrate transcripts in course pages
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Qualifications

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The ideal candidate for the Production Coordinator position will have

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If you are interested in this position, please send an email to jobs@edx.org

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Positions

How to Apply

E-mail your resume, coverletter and any other materials to jobs@edx.org

From 4a0e5f66d600b8811d4acb35ed7d0bae6e1d5859 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Carlos=20Andr=C3=A9s=20Rocha?= Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:06:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Fix link in jobs page --- lms/templates/static_templates/jobs.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lms/templates/static_templates/jobs.html b/lms/templates/static_templates/jobs.html index 77f292b80f..6bebd7ace4 100644 --- a/lms/templates/static_templates/jobs.html +++ b/lms/templates/static_templates/jobs.html @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ EdX Content Engineer Platform Developer Learning Designer - Product Coordinator + Production Coordinator

How to Apply

E-mail your resume, coverletter and any other materials to jobs@edx.org

From 2db84a757eac0fb679b0c3713d0bbd0587011a39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Carlos=20Andr=C3=A9s=20Rocha?= Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:43:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Update to learning designer job description --- lms/templates/static_templates/jobs.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lms/templates/static_templates/jobs.html b/lms/templates/static_templates/jobs.html index 6bebd7ace4..a8afdb7712 100644 --- a/lms/templates/static_templates/jobs.html +++ b/lms/templates/static_templates/jobs.html @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@

Learning Designer/Interaction Learning Designer

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The Learning Designer will work as part of the content and development team to plan, develop and deliver highly engaging and media rich online courses. The learning designer will be a flexible thinker, able to determine and apply sound pedagogical strategies to unique situations and a diverse set of academic disciplines.

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The Learning Designer will work as part of the content and development team to plan, develop and deliver highly engaging and media rich online courses. The learning designer will be a flexible thinker, able to determine and apply sound pedagogical strategies to unique situations and a diverse set of academic disciplines. This is a 6-12 months contract opportunity.

Specific Responsibilities include:

  • Work with producers, product developers and course staff on implementing instructional design approaches in the development of media and other course materials.
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    Qualifications

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    • knowledge and understanding of digital media production tools and processes
    • experience with compression techniques, image processing, and presentation software preferred
    • proficiency with standard office applications