"Learning Experience Designer"

Learning Experience Designer

Posted: 17-Dec-25

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Categories: Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 271983

A cover letter and resume are important submissions for the hiring team to get a sense of your experience. In the cover letter, in two pages or less, tell us how your career aspirations and skills will align with the responsibilities of this position. Submit both a cover letter and resume as one file (because of system limitations).

Design and development:

• Collaborate with faculty, program leaders, Learning Experience Designers, Design Managers, and Media Designers at the Center for Academic Innovation (CAI) to design high-quality online and hybrid courses
• Apply a range of instructional design methods and learning theories to learner-centered course design
• Collaborate with program administrators, faculty partners, and CAI staff to scope the goals of new and iterative course design projects for online courses
• Create and use learner personas for primary and secondary audiences, ensuring that diverse groups of learners are represented
• Provide course design teams and faculty partners with practical examples to spark ideas and creative solutions
• Support integration of practices that follow regulatory and compliance norms for non-credit and credit-bearing courses, including practices related to credit hour guidance, regular and substantive interaction, and accessibility
• Work with academic unit support staff and CAI team members to develop and/or remediate course materials, including media, to make them more accessible for all students
• Refine and apply templates, checklists, and guidelines to assist faculty in the development and iteration of online and hybrid learning experiences
• Collaborate with Project Managers (PMs) to coordinate and manage project pace and scope
• Explore and integrate existing and new educational tools to assess their potential fit within a given project
• Explore emerging trends in pedagogy, learning design, and digital innovation, such as generative AI, evaluating their implications for higher education, and identifying applications that align with the Center's commitment to excellence and access
• Review course design decisions to ensure that activities and resources are aligned with programmatic goals and desired course outcomes
• Use feedback to course design teams on the consistency and appropriateness of course content and presentation
• Build content, activities, and assessments on hosting platforms, including the technical integration of learning technology interoperability (LTI) and other third-party educational technology tools
• Characterize the pedagogical design of a course and make research and evidence-based recommendations for immediate iteration and long-term improvement
• Support the Learning Experience Design team in assessing design proposals for innovative online credit-bearing learning experiences to assess feasibility and fit
• Document course design decisions and support hand-off of course development notes to ensure seamless support and iteration of projects

Applied Research:

• Support research planning and protocols that collect data necessary to help academic unit partners understand instructor and learner needs in online and hybrid learning
• Use data where available to inform course improvements and iterations
• Support research projects that improve understanding of online learning design
• Contribute to the discipline of learning experience design and educational technology through diverse formats and outlets (e.g., conference proceedings, journals, blogs, and webinars)

Mentorship and University Service:

• Provide mentorship and professional modeling for student fellows and residents, supervising and providing feedback on their work
• Share learning design expertise through the design, delivery, and evaluation of workshops for faculty and staff
• Stay up to date with applicable educational technologies that may be used in online teaching and learning
• Stay up to date with learning sciences research through professional organizations, journals, and other platforms (e.g., social media, and professional networking sites)
• Attend professional conferences and training to gain new insights into challenges and problem-solving approaches for practice

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in education, curriculum and instruction, learning sciences, instructional design, educational technology, information science, or related field
• 2 to 3 years of experience in education, training, and/or instructional design or teaching experience.
• Experience with learning theories, instructional design methods, and learner-centered design principles
• Awareness of compliance standards for non-credit and for-credit course design, including copyright and accessibility
• Experience working in a highly collaborative, team-based environment
• Independent judgment and service-oriented attitude
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Experience in ensuring learning experience designs take learner needs, accessibility standards, and underlying technology into consideration
• Experience exploring creative solutions to ensure course materials for all learners are accessible, to the greatest extent possible
• Experience designing learning experiences for online education platforms (e.g., Canvas, Coursera, and edX)
• Experience creating asynchronous and synchronous online learning activities and assessments
• Experience communicating to diverse learner audiences through a variety of modalities

Salary Information

The general salary range for this position is $60,000 - $68,000. You can expect to be paid a competitive and equitable salary. Factors used to determine salary include education level and experience for the position and internal equity within the unit. You are encouraged to discuss salary questions to honor understanding and transparency throughout the recruiting process.

The salary for this position will be based on education and experience.

Must have legal authorization to work in the United States.