Instructional Designer Ph.D.

Company: Shadow Health, Inc
Location: Gainesville
Posted on: February 11, 2020

Job Description:

SHADOW HEALTH IS A GROWING SOFTWARE COMPANY IN DOWNTOWN GAINESVILLE, FL. * Our product today will impact approximately 2 billion peoples lives over the next 20 years * We offer great Health, Dental, Vision, and Life benefits to our employees and their families * 401K match * We invest in our employees and value their growth by encouraging professional development and partially funding tuition reimbursement * Each employee receives 128 hours of PTO in addition to 6 paid significant holidays * We operate in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) * We offer all the coffee and snacks that you can eat! * You are not just another employee at Shadow Health; you become part of our team The Instructional Designer Ph.D. translates learning theory and instructional best practices into effective, market-leading simulation products for nursing and allied health education. In this position, you'll develop a consistent evidence-based learning framework across Shadow Health's Digital Clinical Experiences simulation product line. You'll contribute to the success of this product suite by * Analyzing the instructional goals of the nursing and allied health education market through the perspectives of learners, faculty, deans, and employers * Designing simulation products and assessment instruments that align with market needs by identifying and translating learning theory and instructional best practices * Developing simulation products iteratively in collaboration with nurse educators and simulation developers and designers using a Lean-Agile approach * Implementing our simulation products in customers' curriculums through collaboration with our customer-facing teams, e.g. by training them on the educational value of upcoming product features * Evaluating the performance of our products in the market through analysis of customer outcomes, gap analysis, and market feedback * Developing scholarly research endeavors to include manuscript publications, industry, and educational conference presentations. You'll collaborate with several disciplines to develop the most engaging and efficacious products on the market. You'll collaborate with product leadership and development teams * Collaborate with the Nursing Director to maintain a consistent and evidence-based learning framework across all simulation products * Collaborate with the Nursing Director to synthesize professional competencies, credentialing requirements, and course learning objectives into simulation learning activities * Collaborate with simulation designers to create user experience workflows that best achieve pedagogical goals * Participating in design sessions for new product features, by advocating for instructional and accessibility best practices and by creating mockups to visually communicate ideas * Coaching other design disciplines on instructional design and learning theory You'll collaborate with commercial and customer-facing teams * Collaborate with Market Research to uncover trends in student and faculty usage data to inform simulation product design and development * Collaborate with Product Managers to write product requirements that ensure features meet instructional best practices and fit the learning framework * Collaborate with Faculty Training to synthesize faculty feedback into actionable insights for product design and development * Contribute to the scholarship of our brand through original research and support faculty partners collaborating on scholarly research You'll mentor other Instructional Designers, helping them grow professionally as well as coaching them in curriculum mapping, learning activity design, sequencing of learning activities, user experience design review, instructional material creation, and review, among others. To succeed in this position you will have * A strong academic background (Ph.D. preferred) and an advanced understanding of current/leading learning theories and instructional design principles * A strong theoretical orientation for instructional design: constructivism, situated cognition, transformative learning, adult learning * A strong background in education technology, HCI, UX, and/or serious games and simulation * Applied ADDIE to designing learning activities from start to finish * Solved unexpected challenges in a design role and have the desire to do it again. And again. * Conducted original research projects from research question through to completion (and publication a bonus) * The ability to provide constructive feedback based on knowledge of best practices * Great visual communication skills

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