Learning Technology Specialist

Learning technology specialists are change agents and champions of new educational technologies who provide thought leadership for innovative ways to support our students. This role supports faculty through the use of video, cutting-edge technologies, and data-driven teaching strategies that ensure that they deliver engaging, relevant, and scaffolded learning experiences. Responsible for providing insights and recommendations, interacting with stakeholders and collaborating to find scalable solutions to student needs. This position is fully remote.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Acts as a leader, mentor, and change agent to promote the best use of technologies, user experience, and content.
• Serves as a primary technical support provider to instructors, with an emphasis on instructional design, learning management systems and their uses, and vendor-specific tools that will enhance and individualize the course content delivery for each specific subject and course.
• Troubleshoots issues within courses and is able to implement appropriate solutions. Explores the problems and complexities of each unique course and project in order to provide appropriate guidance and advice.
• Explores the larger program and student life-cycle experience from an instructional technology view and makes recommendations.
• Creates engaging, interactive, and easy to navigate courses. Builds courses throughout the lifecycle from designs to developing all static and interactive elements. Implements design thinking approaches to enhance the user experience of our courses and to improve the overall course development process.
• Collaborates with stakeholders, various departments, LMS administrators, external vendors, and other technology teams to optimize the learning experience.
• Creates content and documentation to assist with implementing educational technologies, tools, and workflows. Creates content using a variety of multimedia, including infographics, video and audio editing, and interactive modules.
• Evaluates courses and educational tools for effectiveness and finds areas of opportunity.
• Works in the Blackboard Learning Management System to construct seamless learning experiences.
• Stays up-to-date on emerging learning technologies.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required; Master’s degree in Instructional Technology or equivalent in Adult Education or Courseware Design or Learning and Development preferred

Work Experience:

• Three to five years of related work experience

Job Skills:

• Applying learning methodologies to the practice of online and on campus course design and development.
• Top notch project management skills, ability to own project start to finish, determine milestones/plan, execute fast, work agilely and work cross-departmentally. Ability to speak the language of teams ranging from developers to academics to business owners/operators and build consensus.
• Familiarity with current learning management systems (e.g. Blackboard; Canvas; Moodle) and ability to understand and use all aspects of an institutional LMS.
• Demonstrated creative use and knowledge of and experience with various technologies including, but not limited to: LMS, audio and video production equipment, video-on-demand systems, multimedia hardware and software, computer-based multimedia production, and video and audio production.
• Uses analytics to inform data-driven decisions in academic, instructional, and business contexts.
• Familiarity with LTI integrations, HTML, and CSS.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Testing new technologies and strategies in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. High comfort level with learning and trying new technology.
• Ability to think strategically from a business angle through all operational implications of product, content and technology challenges.
• Eager to learn, grow, and to contribute to a dynamic team.
• Must be able to work independently with little supervision, as well as in a team.

Certificates, licenses and registrations:

• None

Other:

• Must be able to travel 5% of time.
• Must be able to lift 25 lbs.
• Typical office setting.
• Mobility within the office including movement from floor to floor.
• Travel via plane, car, and metro may be required to perform this job.
• Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant
• Access information using a computer.
• Effectively communicate, both up and down the management chain.
• Effectively cope with stressful situations
• Strong mental acuity
• Regular, dependable attendance and punctuality are essential functions of this job.
• Other essential functions and marginal job functions are subject to modification.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete our application process, please contact our Human Resources Department at Careers@strategiced.com.