Instructional Designer
Linn-Benton Community College · Remote Work (Oregon) · Remote · Contract
Salary USD 74,152–100,323
Apply by Nov 2, 2026
Posted Oct 5, 2026
The Instructional Designer role works closely with academic departments, managers, and faculty grantees at Oregon community colleges and universities to develop and adopt high-quality, sustainable, and customizable open educational resources. Support faculty from all backgrounds and skill levels through collaboration, consistency, innovation, and transparency.
Essential Duties:
- Collaborate with faculty to develop engaging, interactive, and effective openly licensed courses and curricula that address various learning styles and are accessible to all students.
- Write promotional messages, raise awareness, and contribute to repositories to ensure that OER is showcased and searchable via openoregon.org and other relevant channels.
- Develop and apply research-based standards for OER produced by grantees in a variety of formats (textbooks, syllabi, websites, videos, etc).
- Organize and participate in professional development opportunities to learn about and encourage the use of best practices for instructional design, assessment, technologies, and open educational practices.
- Research, write and produce openly licensed documentation, reports, and other instructional materials to support faculty learning.
- Prioritize accessibility best practices and ensure that OER published via Oregon's statewide program meet current standards.
- Model use of instructional technologies such as learning management systems, databases, web development tools, and presentation software.
- Evaluate and make recommendations on purchasing or creating new platforms, tools, and processes to enhance open educational practices.
- Report on the increase in the use of the collection and contribute to tracking student savings and other impacts resulting from the statewide OER program.
- Plan and advocate for the sustainable continuation of statewide instructional design support.
