Position Number: FA033
Reports to: Dean of Learning Resources (FA048)

The Administrative Officer for Instructional Design provides support services for college-wide uses of instructional technologies including delivering instructional design services to faculty, implementing key components of the college’s online learning strategy, and supporting student-centered learning environments through the innovative uses of technology.

Work Tasks & Duties

Delivers Instructional Design Services (40%)

Works with academic schools, individual faculty and staff in the delivery of instructional design services.

  • Supports the use of best-practice methodologies associated with the application of various technologies to teaching and learning that support student success.
  • Integrates technology into curricula.
  • Develops and implements technology enhanced instruction.
  • Designs effective and efficient face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses.
  • Adopts and integrates low cost/no cost and open learning materials across the college working in collaboration with the Library’s Collection Development and OER unit.

Online Learning (25%)

Supports the implementation the college’s online learning strategy.

  • Coordinates the college’s online learning quality assurance program including organizing the course review process, providing training to course reviewers, maintaining accurate and up to date program documentation.
  • Provides instructional design services to faculty in creating, teaching or updating online courses.
  • Develops online tutorials and learning supports for new and existing online students.
  • Creates content and provide regular updates to Virginia Western Online gateway website.

Technology Enhanced Learning (25%)

Promotes student-centered learning environments through the innovative uses of technology

  • Deepens and broadens use of existing instructional technologies (e.g. LMS / Lecture Capture / Web-conferencing)
  • Identifies and promotes new instructional technologies that meet campus needs
  • Evaluates and improves the use of publisher provided program and course specific online homework and instruction programs
  • Manages lead Learning Management System
  • Provides support to part-time Instructional Technologist and serve as back-up LMS Administrator

Capacity Building (10%)

  • Continually updates professional knowledge and skills in the areas of technology enhanced teaching and learning, instructional strategies, assessments, learning technologies and project planning.
  • Proactively seeks new opportunities to use instructional design to support key strategic initiatives at the college.
  • Builds and maintains connections with other instructional designers across the VCCS and other appropriate entities in higher education.

Last updated 09/2018