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Six Red Marbles is hiring a Freelance Instructional Designer. This is a remote position focusing on designing higher education courses, collaborating with the Learning Experience Design team to provide high-quality educational solutions to college and university clients.

Highlights

Develop and design higher education courses using platforms like Moodle and Canvas.
Collaborate closely with faculty subject matter experts and meet project deadlines.
Required to engage in client-facing activities and lead effective meetings.
Essential qualifications include experience with LMSs and an advanced degree in a relevant field combined with significant instructional design experience.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office and project management, along with strong interpersonal and creative problem-solving skills, is crucial.
Additional desirable skills include competency-based learning and developing interactives and simulations.
Emphasis on maintaining organization, time management, and attention to detail.
Benefits include working within a highly innovative and learner-focused company.

Instructional Designer–Higher Ed: Moodle & Canvas Full Description

Job Description

Six Red Marbles is specifically seeking freelance instructional designers (IDs) with experience using Moodle, Canvas, and other LMSs to create higher ed courses. Experience in course design or teaching in a higher education setting is highly desirable.

The freelance ID works in conjunction with the Six Red Marbles Learning Experience Design team to create superior learning experiences for our college and university clients. The ID knows how to align a customer’s needs and goals with educational and technological best practices and can confidently communicate with and guide a higher ed client with a strong product while meeting high quality standards and time/budget requirements.

Responsibilities

Functions as an ID to develop higher ed courses:

Plans and executes design and development work on complex course and content development projects.
Leads meetings effectively.
Supports faculty SMEs in the development of content.
Adheres to established schedules and timelines.

Leverages the following skills to execute project work:

Client facing – Drives conversations with clients and participates in design efforts with SMEs, faculty, and other client stakeholders.
Collaborative – Actively contributes to teamwork and dynamic.
Initiative – Accepts new challenges in the spirit of gaining experience and developing new skills.
Independent – Actively seeks out resources and develops problem-solving skills to work independently within the scope of work.

Required Minimum Qualifications

Experience with Moodle or Canvas

ONE of the following combinations of education and experience:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in any field plus at least 5 years of ID experience, or
Master’s degree or higher in instructional design, educational technology, or a related field plus at least 3 years of ID experience, or
Ph.D in any field plus at least 4 years of ID experience, or
Ed.D in instructional design , adult learning or a related filed plus at least 3 years of ID experience

Desired Skills and Knowledge

instructional design theory and practices
attention to detail
organization skills
time management
strong writing
active listening
interpersonal skills
ability to work on a team
problem-solving and creative thinking skills
learning technologies and LMSs
proficient in Microsoft Office
project management
media design/storyboarding and review
ability and resilience to work through ambiguous situations

Skills Considered a Plus

Competency-based learning
Development of interactives and simulations

Why Six Red Marbles:

Do you believe learning matters? Well, we do, too.

In fact, our entire business is built around the idea that we are all always learning and therefore always students. We believe everyone deserves the most engaging and innovative learning experiences available, and our employees are the secret to our success. Our values include:

Doing right by our people and partners
Taking an innovative, tech-forward approach to engage students of all ages
Putting the learner first in the content we create
Being transparent in all we do and how we do it
Working together to find the best solution, not the easiest solution
Embracing that we are Always a Student

About Six Red Marbles:

Six Red Marbles delivers high-quality educational programs at scale and has decades of experience developing custom materials and assessments that can align with any educational standard. We have developed thousands of interactive learning programs for schools, publishers, universities, and more with the support of our global network of subject matter experts.

Six Red Marbles is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Original Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities

Functions as an ID to develop higher ed courses:

Plans and executes design and development work on complex course and content development projects.
Leads meetings effectively.
Supports faculty SMEs in the development of content.
Adheres to established schedules and timelines.

Leverages the following skills to execute project work:

Client facing – Drives conversations with clients and participates in design efforts with SMEs, faculty, and other client stakeholders.
Collaborative – Actively contributes to teamwork and dynamic.
Initiative – Accepts new challenges in the spirit of gaining experience and developing new skills.
Independent – Actively seeks out resources and develops problem-solving skills to work independently within the scope of work.

Required Minimum Qualifications

Experience with Moodle or Canvas

ONE of the following combinations of education and experience:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in any field plus at least 5 years of ID experience, or
Master’s degree or higher in instructional design, educational technology, or a related field plus at least 3 years of ID experience, or
Ph.D in any field plus at least 4 years of ID experience, or
Ed.D in instructional design , adult learning or a related filed plus at least 3 years of ID experience

Desired Skills and Knowledge

instructional design theory and practices
attention to detail
organization skills
time management
strong writing
active listening
interpersonal skills
ability to work on a team
problem-solving and creative thinking skills
learning technologies and LMSs
proficient in Microsoft Office
project management
media design/storyboarding and review
ability and resilience to work through ambiguous situations

Skills Considered a Plus

Competency-based learning
Development of interactives and simulations

Why Six Red Marbles:

Do you believe learning matters? Well, we do, too.

Doing right by our people and partners
Taking an innovative, tech-forward approach to engage students of all ages
Putting the learner first in the content we create
Being transparent in all we do and how we do it
Working together to find the best solution, not the easiest solution
Embracing that we are Always a Student

About Six Red Marbles:

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