If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Pay Range: $56,600.00 - $84,900.00

Job Description

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the build process for new courses and learning experiences and attend to continuous improvement and technology innovations of assigned projects

• Ensure the quality of the visual and functional design of courses and assessments

• Collaborate with development team members to build superior online courses that are supported by research-based best practices in online learning.

• Work with program owners to explore technologies which address the needs of the curriculum (e.g., simulations, virtual reality)

• Serve as consultant, partnering with instructional designers, assessment developers, and other team members to innovatively apply WGU instructional and assessment tools.

• Maintain a complete understanding of all WGU learning and assessment tools and resources.

• Work closely with the accessibility team to ensure that instructional and assessment tools and services are fully accessible to students.

• Work with project managers and other team members to ensure all deadline dates for assigned projects are met throughout the design and development process

• Implement required revisions based on quality assurance reviews

• Assist with identifying and resolving challenges related to technology, to online delivery of content and assessments, and to the student experience

• Appraise capabilities, strengths and weaknesses of existing, new, and emerging and innovative e-learning technologies and tools that support college instructional, assessment, and student engagement goals

• Stay informed about updates, changes, retiring assets, innovations, and opportunities related to WGU's selected platforms and delivery tools and processes

• Be trained and mentored by experienced team members on assigned WGU technologies, department processes, and instructional technologist best practices.

• Receives objectives, deadlines and specific instructions from supervisor and others regularly. Work is reviewed and employee receives instructions throughout processes.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

   

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

• Current, solid knowledge of instructional design and learning theory

• Current, solid knowledge of instructional technologies... For full info follow application link.

   

Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age , national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.