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Posted on by Trevor Dougal: EDTECH Learning Log

Instructional Designer/Trainer

Job Summary: If you are looking for a job where you can allow your creativity to flow you are in the right place. The successful candidate for this position will create, conceptualize, and write innovative training products and curriculum for introductory to advanced level instructional design teams.  They will also be required to train designers with said materials. They will consult and collaborate with managers and team members to reach set group target goals.

Minimum Requirements:

  • M.A. in Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Curriculum and Instruction or
  • 4-6 years of experience in Instructional design
  • 3-5 years experience in a leadership training setting
  • Experience in training curriculum delivery
  • Advanced capabilities in product design
  • Ability to independently create training products and curricula

Knowledge Required:

  • Advanced experience working on e-learning curriculum
  • Microsoft Office proficient
  • Must be creative while detail oriented to get jobs done in a timely fashion
  • Outstanding Communication skills are required
  • Online teaching experience

Desired Qualifications:

  • PhD in Instructional Design
  • 7-8 years of training experience in instructional design or similar field
  • Advanced training in Adobe products
  • Extraordinary problem solving skills
  • Advanced knowledge of the ADDIE model of design
  • Advanced capabilities of coding in Javascript or C++

Reflection

  1. What are teachers expected to do that instructional designers are not?

    I think that the main difference is that teachers have a closer interactive connection to their students. Their job consists of motivating students to learn and desire to learn the information at hand.  In a sense you could consider them the delivery system.They have the ability to make changes to the original curriculum to best suit their classes. Teaches need to build a rapport with students to help them learn the desired material. The effective teacher comes up with innovative ways to deliver instructions. They are also expected to provide feedback to students and parents in their journey to a greater education in any given subject.

  1. What are instructional designers expected to do that teachers are not?

The role of the instructional designer is to package materials and curricula into a package that will help achieve the best desired outcome. They are the digital experts that prepare needed materials and reach for target based goals. The designer tends to not have a face-to-face connection with the student and therefore is in need a great knowledge of the pedagogy that is needed to reach the goals they are seeking. I think the design word is key. They don’t just package the curriculum. They design, create, and develop instructional materials. They create these materials with an intended target in mind.

  1. I think three major differences are:
  1. Instructional designers do not tend to meet with the students that they create for and teachers do
  2. Instructional designers decide on what is taught. Teachers decide on the timeline and pace to deliver the material.
  3. Instructional designers create the content to be used. Teachers use the created content to teach their classes.

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