Coursera was launched in 2012 by two Stanford Computer Science professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 82 million registered learners as of March 31, 2021. Coursera partners with over 200 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including Guided Projects, courses, Specializations, certificates, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees. More than 6,000 institutions have used Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students, including in high-demand fields such as data science, technology, and business. Coursera became a B Corp in February 2021.

The Teaching and Learning team at Coursera is a group of learning design researchers and experts. Our team works closely with instructors and instructional design teams from top universities and industry partners around the globe, providing best practices, training, consulting, and support in content development and creating transformational learning experiences. We aim to understand the factors that make online courses successful for learners, optimize for a range of metrics – including learner satisfaction, enrollment, progression, completion, and learning outcomes – and ultimately distill these into actionable insights to guide partners in their course design and production. We continuously drive and improve online pedagogy through research, feedback, and on-platform experimentation.

As a Learning Design Consultant you are a pedagogy expert working closely with our partner institutions to transform traditional on-campus courses into engaging and effective online learning experiences. Specifically as we grow our degrees business, you’ll be working with partners over multiple years to develop fully accredited online degrees.

Outside of individual learning experiences, you will be on the cutting edge of online education research and practice, identifying and developing new online pedagogy, presenting at conferences, and sharing them with the extended Coursera community. Together, we will help create universal access to high-quality higher education, and make a profound difference to lives and societies around the world.

Your Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with instructors and content creation teams to map out and develop high quality learning experiences – identifying, reviewing, and providing actionable feedback on all course components; designing solutions for high stakes assessments and scaled synchronous activities;
• Review learner success metrics and assess course quality through learner ratings, reviews, and behaviour, developing actionable recommendations to aid partners in iterating on content
• Provide actionable course improvement plans in the form of clear summaries and categorized recommendations
• Develop new online teaching best practices and materials for partners to implement these through their content creation process
• Present on work in the form of internal presentations and public-facing articles

Basic skills

• 2+ years of relevant professional experience in teaching, online education, instructional design, or learning science
• Experience working with, and presenting to higher education institutions

Proffered skills

• Experience designing and developing online degree courses
• Content expertise (work or education) in computer science, analytics/data, engineering, or other technical fields
• Good analytical skills; the ability to synthesize information from various sources and conduct experimental research
• Creative problem-solving abilities, excellent written and verbal communication, and strong interpersonal and operational skills
• Strong bias for action and ability to initiate, coordinate and manage numerous projects and schedules simultaneously in a fast-paced, dynamic, and cross-functional environment

If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/teach-online

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

https://www.coursera.org/learn/getinmooc

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If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at [email protected].

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