{"id":293,"date":"2008-05-23T09:14:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T05:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2008\/05\/23\/job-leapfrog-learning-designer\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T09:14:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T05:14:55","slug":"job-leapfrog-learning-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2008\/05\/23\/job-leapfrog-learning-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"[JOB] LeapFrog: Learning Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Content-Type: text\/html;<br \/>\n\tcharset=&#8221;ISO-8859-1&#8243;<\/p>\n<div>Background:<\/div>\n<div><font>LeapFrog&#8217;s Learning De=<br \/>\npartment=A0has=A0immediate openings=A0for individuals=A0with expertise in ma=<br \/>\nth\/science learning, and curriculum design.=A0=A0This growing team is respon=<br \/>\nsible for the educational quality of content and pedagogy across all product=<br \/>\ns including toys, platforms, and web&#8211;LeapFrog&#8217;s major, new Connected strate=<br \/>\ngy.=A0<\/font><\/div>\n<p><font>=A0<\/font><\/p>\n<div><font>Learn about=<br \/>\n LeapFrog:=A0 http:\/\/leapfrog.com\/<font>=A0<\/font><\/div>\n<p><font>=A0<\/p>\n<div><font>Connected product details:<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font>Literacy (Tag):<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font>=A0=A0=<br \/>\n=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0http:\/\/www.leapfrog.=<br \/>\ncom\/tag\/<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font>=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 http:\/\/www.leapfrog.com\/tag\/press2.html<\/font><\/div>\n<p><font>Ga=<br \/>\nming (didj, Leapster2; 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