Founded in 1986, St. Charles Community College (SCC) has a
reputation as one of the best two-year colleges in the state of
Missouri. SCC's service area includes a six-county region with a
population exceeding 540,000. SCC's main campus, located in
Cottleville, has won architectural awards for its innovative,
contemporary design. The college's Dardenne Creek Campus features
the Center for Healthy Living and the Field to Table Institute.
Opening Fall 2025, the Innovation West Campus located in Wentzville
features the Regional Workforce Innovation Center. With a focus on
innovation, St. Charles Community College is a leader in delivering
high quality education in a state-of-the-art learning environment.
The success of SCC is rooted in the mission of serving the
community by "focusing on academic excellence, student success,
workforce advancement, and life-long learning within a global
society."
The Learning Experience Designer - Emerging Technologies
plays an integral role in developing and supporting high-quality
technology-enhanced instruction and learning experiences, including
extended reality and artificial intelligence. The role involves
analyzing, designing, developing, and evaluating learning
experiences, systems and processes, technologies, and instructional
materials. These efforts support various delivery methods,
including face-to-face connect, web-enhanced, online, blended,
flex, and technology-supported instruction. The Learning Experience
Designer - Emerging Technologies - will provide leadership to
activities associated with the new XR/AI Learning Lab. An interest
in emerging technologies is essential. This position will research,
inform, and provide support to faculty and instructional staff
creating immersive learning experiences and activities. They will
concentrate on storytelling and pedagogy while working closely with
the Immersive Learning Design Specialist who will be building
immersive learning environments.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.
Other duties may be assigned.
This is an on-site position based at the St Charles
Community College campus in Cottleville, MO
Instructional and Learning Experience Design and
Development
- Work with faculty and staff in any teaching modality, including
online, blended, flex, and XR/AI technology
Analyze, design, and develop content, activities, assessments,
courses, and processes for multiple modalities through the
appropriate blend of pedagogy and technology based on learning
theory, instructional design practices, and quality assurance
rubrics.
Provide consultations and serve as a resource to faculty and
staff on the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and
revision of learning outcomes, course modality, high-impact
learning practices, Universal Design for Learning (UDL),
accessibility issues and remediation, content creation, effective
assessment strategies, and other instructional design, learning
experience, and/or technology concerns. The position will assist
faculty and staff with XR and AI applications.
Quality Assurance
- Ensure course quality by performing quality assurance reviews
and recommending revisions in accordance with the expected learning
outcomes, best practices or other standards, and quality assurance
rubrics.
- Develop and implement measurement and evaluation strategies to
assess the efficiency and effectiveness of learning solutions on
performance.
- Consult on and monitor fair use and copyright in digital
environments.
Emerging Technology
- Demonstrate a strong foundation in technology with a keen
interest in artificial intelligence, XR, and other emerging
technologies and their applications in an educational
environment.
- Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental generative AI and use a
variety of generative artificial intelligence tools for different
purposes (i.e. text generation, image creation, video creation,
code creation, sound creation, etc.); discern which of those
technologies and tools are best suited for different specific
educational and business use cases.
- Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental XR concepts and use tools
for creation and delivery of XR content; discern which of those
technologies and tools are best suited for different specific
educational and business use cases.
- Demonstrate advanced computing and technology skills and
efficiency utilizing complex computing applications.
Communication, Collaboration, and Work Habits
- Demonstrate advanced written, presentation, and training skills
to nurture collaboration and knowledge sharing practices related to
new or updated technology with the ability to explain complex
technological concepts in an accessible manner to any
audience.
- Write concise, creative, and effective instruction.
- Crosstrain to ensure continuity of services.
- Collaborate with external partners and other departments on
projects, institutional initiatives, and committee work.
- Work independently with minimum direction; take projects
successfully from concept to implementation and provide progress
reporting.
- Ability to follow up, follow through, multi-task, set
priorities, and adhere to deadlines.
- Ensure final project deliverables are of the highest
quality.
- Contribute to the overall success of the Center for Immersive
Learning and the Dreamscape classroom by performing all other
duties as assigned.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
None
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to
perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed
below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability
required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable
individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) or equivalent in
Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, XR/AI or other
relevant field with three or more years of related experience is
required. Two or more years of blended teaching is preferred. Must
be proficient with: generative AI tools and applications; XR tools
and applications; Experience with the following applications is
preferred: Canvas, Respondus, Adobe Creative Suite, Camtasia,
Snagit, Canva, Unity, Blender.
St. Charles Community College is an Equal Opportunity
Employer