Instructional Designer Interview Schedule

Contribution to CITL’s instructional design support

• Collaborate with faculty, academic departments and staff to support the full lifecycle of instructional design for credit, non-credit, and microcredential courses.
• Apply various learning theories, teaching strategies, instructional design models, best practices in online education, and integrating educational technologies to improve teaching effectiveness and student learning experiences.
• Manage course design projects for the entire course life cycle, including systematic refresh activities.

Create flexible, accessible learning experiences for adult learners

• Collaborate with project collaborators to ensure courses and credentials meet university priorities, institutional policy, accreditation and compliance requirements, and metrics for student success and retention.
• Support efforts for institutional initiatives around course innovation, online learning strategy, microcredential expansion, including participation in cross-functional collaborations.
• Work with colleges to identify and design flexible, revenue generating learning experiences for adult and non-credit learners preparing to entry competitive career fields.
• Design flexible learning structures that respect adult schedules and prior experience, while mapping learning objectives to professional outcomes.
• Leverage artificial intelligence and subject matter expertise to build interactive modules, case studies, and simulations that align with real-world workplace practices.

Coordinate program level design and development for colleges and departments, and other institutional support units

• Collaborate with the chairs, faculty, and staff to define program framework requirements.
• Apply project and program-level design and development framework strategies for colleges, departments, and other units in developing online, hybrid courses or on-demand learning experiences.
• Support the development of general education courses that meet graduation requirements for undergraduate online programs with and across different colleges.

Contribute to the quality standards assessment of all online courses

• Implement and maintain online quality standards, and contribute to the quality standards assessment of all online courses and learning experiences.
• Assure universal design principles are considered in creating media.

Collaborate with CITL leadership to support activities assigned by the Office of the Provost

• Support the mission CITL through various instructional design assignments.

1. Bachelor’s degree.
2. A total of one (1) year (12 months) in education, training and/or work experience in the area of specialization inherent to the position.

Note: Note: Master’s Degree in an area consistent with the duties of the position may be substituted for one (1) year of work experience.

1. Master’s degree or significant progress toward a master’s degree in higher education, instructional design, online learning, or related field.
2. Two (2) years of experience in an instructional design role, working with subject matter experts to create online, hybrid, or blended learning courses or content using a learning or content management system or related experience to the hiring unit*.
3. One (1) year of professional experience coordinating complex instructional design projects involving multiple, distinct work products, multiple subject or content experts, and coordination with other designers, developers, and/or media specialists.
4. Knowledge of NIU’s online academic degree-completion, graduate, and certificate programs.
5. Certification in Quality Matters or other similar course quality standards.
6. Excellent written and oral communication skills, planning and organizational abilities, problem solving skills and ability to work collaboratively and collegially.
7. Ability to apply instructional design theory to functional design concepts, practices and methods.