Course Author

📋 Description

• • The Course Author role at Pennsylvania State University involves revising two key courses—LHR 460: Ethics in the Workplace and HRER 504: Seminar in Employment Relations—for the School of Labor and Employment Relations. This position is critical to ensuring course content remains current, academically rigorous, and aligned with learning objectives for asynchronous delivery.
• • Day-to-day responsibilities include developing asynchronous course materials over a 7-week structure, updating lesson commentaries, syllabi, and readings, designing weekly assessments such as individual essays, group projects, and discussion forums, and creating detailed grading rubrics to measure student learning outcomes.
• • The role is based within the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State, a unit dedicated to advancing knowledge in workplace dynamics, employment relations, and organizational behavior. The author will collaborate closely with Learning Design staff to ensure pedagogical effectiveness and technological integration.
• • This position offers the opportunity to deepen expertise in curriculum design, assessment development, and online pedagogy while contributing to the academic mission of a major research university. Successful candidates will gain experience in higher education instructional design and leave a lasting impact on student learning in labor and employment relations.