Position: Instructional Design Lead for MOOCs
Contact: John Bailey, John@ExcelinEd.org
Leaders at the state and local level continue to drive innovation, helping to make the promise of high quality digital learning a reality for students across the country.
In 2012, states considered over 700 bills impacting digital learning and enacted over 150. Legislatures are doing great work, but experience high turnover. 50% of State Legislators possess less than two years of experience – how do you ensure that those state and local leaders are informed and prepared to address a rapidly changing legislative and learning landscape?
We believe Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer an exciting chance to build capacity with state and local leaders, delivering cutting-edge instruction and information across the country and world. MOOCs can facilitate collaboration, conversation around best practices and ensure that innovative techniques and best practices aren’t restricted based on geography or finances. Offered by The Christensen Institute, Silicon Schools and the New Teacher Center, Blended Learning: Personalizing Education for Students and Common Core in Action: Math Formative Assessment are two great examples of the potential of MOOCs in offering support and instruction to hundreds of learners from across the world.
Digital Learning Now! will be exploring ways to use MOOCs to support our work in reaching state policymakers, their staff, and education leaders with information and implementation strategies. We are looking for an Instructional Designer to lead this effort.
This is a tremendous chance for a multi-talented, energetic education professional with exceptional curriculum design experience to help lead our effort in designing courses around digital learning strategies and issues like the Common Core State Standards. We are looking for a creative individual who deeply understands curriculum, assessment, instruction and designing engaging online experiences.
This is a full-time, salaried position working with a dynamic team and exploring the abilities of this “new normal” of education, so check out the position description and email John@ExcelinEd.org if interested.