Instructional Design jobs

A job I found interesting is an Instructional Designer for the University of Arkansas- Sam Walton College of Business on the ASTD job listings website. It is a full time position in Fayetteville, AR with a salary of $40,000-50,000. The employee will be required to develop educational materials for face-to-face as well as online classes. They will report to the Director of Instructional Design but also must work with faculty and other “internal and external professionals”.

The requirements of the position include a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a “relevant” field but a Masters degree is preferred. The applicant must know instructional design practices and principles and have three years experience in development of technology-based educational materials. They must know Microsoft Office software, course management systems such as BlackBoard, and have experience in “designing blended and/or online courses”. The requirements also suggest the employee must have “proven” ability in working with faculty members and project teams, with minimal supervision and able to meet deadlines.

This is a job I may consider applying for because it’s in academia and very similar to what I do now at the community college level. I would meet the preferred requirements when I graduate. I have had experience creating classes in BlackBoard for faculty at my community college and have used Microsoft Office and BlackBoard for years. I looked at similar jobs in Business and Industry, but they did not appeal to me as much as the ones in academia like this one did.

The URL is http://jobs.astd.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=2971976

Definition of Instructional Technology

For the EDTC 6010 class, I think the definition of Instructional technology is technology used for the purpose of encouraging and producing learning in or outside a classroom. For instance, I use a SmartBoard in my classroom to teach computer concepts by using it as a visual display. This way students can follow what I’m doing on the computer and will know what their computer screens are suppose to display if they are following along. Other examples of instructional technology are using Webquests to assist learning and research on the internet, using podcasts to listen to lectures, and using video to view classmates and teachers in a virtual classroom.

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