Description
Instructors are subject matter experts who teach and support a caseload of students enrolled in their assigned course(s).
Responsibilities:
- Develops instructional materials, aligned with identified learning objectives, course competencies, and instructional interventions
- Provides effective, relevant, and engaging one-to-many virtual events aligned with identified learning objectives
- Continually develops knowledge, skills, and expertise through active participation in faculty learning community and other developmental opportunities
- Provides proactive, relevant, timely, and effective one-to-one virtual instruction to students in a specific course or domain
- Facilitates student communities to support peer collaboration, effective faculty interaction, and student development
- Student-centered and provides effective one-to-one virtual coaching to help students achieve personal, academic, and career goals
- Adapts instructional and coaching practices to common and typical student needs
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Master's degree in an AI- or machine learning-related field (such as Computer Science or Software Engineering)
- 3 years of relevant professional experience, including 1 year of teaching online
- Demonstrated subject matter expert in assigned content or practice area(s)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with distance education and distance learning students is preferred
- PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering; 2 - 3 years' experience teaching or in an engineering position
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
- Health savings account and flexible spending account
- Basic and voluntary life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
- Legal and identity theft coverage
- Retirement savings plan
- Wellbeing program
- Discounted WGU tuition
- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
- 11 paid holidays
- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave