Job Description

Education Course Editor - Literacy Focus
Course Editors play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of our credit-recommended college courses. This project aims to enhance and update college-level courses to ensure they meet current academic standards and industry requirements. This is an online, remote contract role. All work is paid hourly
Project Description
You will review and edit existing college-level Literacy Instruction course structure and materials designed to prepare educators to teach reading and writing. This is expected to include tasks such as (but not limited to):

• Evaluating and adjusting recommended updates to existing course structure
• Reviewing course learning outcomes and competencies for accuracy and alignment with current literacy pedagogy and teacher preparation standards
• Editing skill-oriented course sections and ensuring proper organization of topics such as reading instruction methods, writing pedagogy, literacy assessment strategies, and differentiated instruction
• Reviewing and refining response assignment prompts and rubrics
• Evaluating existing multiple choice questions for quality and accuracy

Required Skills:

• Master's degree or higher in Literacy Education, Reading Education, Language Arts Education, or a closely related field
• Experience teaching literacy methods or teacher preparation courses in a college or university setting
• Experience creating, updating, or revising courses at a college or university level
• Strong working knowledge of evidence-based literacy instructional methods, reading development theory, and K-12 literacy standards

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Strong time management skills to meet due dates
• Receptiveness to feedback and willingness to revise submitted work as needed
• Ability to collaborate with curriculum designers to create high-quality course deliverables
• 2+ years of experience teaching courses in a college or university setting

What We Offer:

• Reliable Payments: You'll receive payments twice a month and automated invoicing for your work.
• Remote Work: This is a fully online contracted work-from-home opportunity.
• Flexibility: Basically, there are no requirements! Work when you want, where you want, as often as you want, with no minimums/maximums.
• Support: Our supportive staff is available answer your questions and help you get up and running.

The Contract Process

1. Complete the application and submit with your resume.
2. Applications are approved and contracts sent on Wednesdays.
3. Submit the contract within the 5-day signing window.
4. The following Wednesday, you’ll receive onboarding instructions.

You can view a step-by-step overview of the contract process here: How to Become a Freelancer with Study.com

About Study.com

The mission of Study.com is to make education accessible, and over the last two decades we’ve become the leading online education platform, delivering a personalized learning experience across a broad continuum of education for over 30 million students, instructors, and professionals every month.

We help empower millions of learners to achieve their education and career goals. We focus on increasing access to education because we know information is the ultimate equalizer and that education is key to upward mobility.

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