Description:
Founded in 1974, Deakin is a public university in Victoria with 61,000 students across five campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, and the online Campus. We are a progressive and open-minded university, with the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world’s universities.
The Learning Designer role will provide support and advice on the design and delivery of learning activities and programs of study across units and courses to build towards achievement of graduate learning outcomes.
This role involves collaboration and engagement with a range of discipline-based academics to design and develop engaging, accessible, and inclusive course and unit curriculum, constructively aligned learning outcomes, assessment tasks, and feedback opportunities and practices.
- Designing and developing engaging accessible and inclusive learning materials and activities in collaboration with teaching teams
- Distilling core issues from complex information on learning design, drawing accurate conclusions and condensing complex information and next steps into simple concise terms that others can understand
- Supporting the design of authentic, accessible and inclusive assessment tasks utilising a variety of assessment types which support learners to develop evaluative judgement
- Actively seeking feedback from colleagues and stakeholders on things that are working well and areas for improvement in relation to learning design to support effective practice
- Building new and productive relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders or key influential individuals across the University
- Developing and implementing practical, accessible solutions to learning design based on stakeholder needs
- Strive for excellence and consult regularly with clients to clarify who requires the information, the purpose for which it is required, criteria for success and where and when advice and recommendation is required
- Communicating and providing advice with confidence to teaching teams using examples and the most appropriate influencing technique for a given situation to increase understanding and support
- Extensive experience and management expertise in technical or administrative fields, or An equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training
- Demonstrated ability and experience to work collaboratively with academic staff in providing support and advice in the design and delivery of appropriate methods and materials for teaching, learning, and assessing
- Up to date knowledge and application of learning and teaching theory and practice including digital and blended learning
- Outstanding interpersonal skills including ability to negotiate, motivate, influence, and build relationships with a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
- Experience in developing innovative solutions and a commitment to continuous improvement, openness to new ideas and creative approaches to problem, solving within established timelines.