The Team
E-Learning @ FAA within the College of Fine + Applied Arts at UIUC is focused on using design and technology to elevate education in the arts. We design online and blended courses, help faculty and students use e-learning tools, and take a strategic approach to improving the course—and the overall FAA—experience.
Job Description
We’re looking for a creative, curious, and ambitious person to fill one academic hourly position.
As a member of the E-Learning @ FAA team, the Academic Hourly will:
- Be responsible for design, development, management, and support of online courses as offered through the College of Fine and Applied Arts' six academic units—Architecture, Art + Design, Dance, Landscape Architecture, Music, Theatre, and Urban + Regional Planning.
- Analyze instructional needs.
- Provide expertise and assistance with innovative strategies to meet those needs.
- Generally support course and program offerings.
At E-Learning @ FAA, we like to help our team members grow and develop professionally. To this end, the Academic Hourly will work with the Senior Instructional Designer to develop and lead a project that aligns with their professional goals.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- Demonstrated experience in online curriculum building and web-based course development within an asynchronous learning environment.
- Demonstrated high-level interpersonal skills.
- Experience working on project teams and leading multiple project teams.
- Good understanding of online pedagogy.
- Demonstrated experience developing a course using a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management system (LCMS).
- Demonstrated experience developing HTML/CSS-based web pages.
- Experience producing multimedia (still images, audio, and video).
- Knowledge of accessibility standards, compliance, and copyright laws.
- Proven ability to work with confidential and sensitive data in an educational environment.
- Well-developed communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Established track record of working independently as well as collaboratively with those with differing backgrounds and skills.
- Proven experience in managing tasks with different priorities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree, preferably in education-related field.
- Significant experience in online curriculum building and web-based course development within an asynchronous learning environment.
- Experience providing face-to-face training and workshops.
- Experience with remote meeting tools like Elluminate/Collaborate and Lync.
- Experience with social networking and collaboration tools (discussion forums, wikis, blogs, etc.) in asynchronous learning environments.
- Experience with screen/video capture tools like Captivate.
- Experience using Blackboard Learn, Moodle, and/or Canvas.
- Experience using Kaltura, or other video platforms.
- Video production experience.
- Understanding of adult and asynchronous learning theory.
- Background or education in the arts.
- Experience with many of the following applications: MS Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, iMovie, GarageBand, Audacity, Audio Hijack, HandBrake, screen capture tools such as Apple Preview, and Respondus.
- Demonstrated ability to interact with faculty of varying ranks from different disciplines and with different levels of experience teaching in an online environment.