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Sample courses you can try for yourself.

These are original samples, not client work. They show how Kirsten structures learning, designs practice, and writes feedback. For the projects she's hired to do, see the portfolio.

  • Course navigation and progress tracking
  • Scenario-based decisions with instructional feedback
  • Knowledge checks and final assessments
  • Branching conversations with consequence-based feedback
  • Image exploration, hotspots, sorting, and matching
  • Before/after redesign comparisons
  • Downloadable job aids and performance support
  • Reflection prompts and completion screens
A learner working through an online module on a tablet while sitting on a lakeside dock at dawn
Good learning goes wherever people are.

01

Science & Technical Communication

Science Communication Training

Turning complex ideas into understanding

A learning demonstration for technical experts who are asked to explain their work to non-specialists: analyze the audience, simplify without losing accuracy, and structure the message as a story people remember.

Format
Scrolling module with practice activities
Audience
Scientists, researchers, educators, and technical experts
Length
30 minutes
  • Science communication
  • Plain language
  • Audience analysis
  • Storytelling
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02

Conservation & environmental education

Conservation Learning Experience

Place-based stewardship training for visitors, volunteers, and seasonal staff

The signature demonstration: a coastal preserve where the science is strong and the stewardship behavior is not changing. You read the landscape, make real steward decisions, run a citizen science protocol, and leave with the field job aid the role actually needs.

Format
Place-based scrolling experience with field interactions
Audience
Volunteer stewards, seasonal interpretive staff, and site visitors
Length
30–35 minutes
  • Conservation
  • Place-based learning
  • Behavior change
  • Citizen science
  • Field design
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03

Faculty & SME Development

Designing Better Online Learning

Kirsten's signature course for faculty, trainers, and subject matter experts

The course Kirsten has effectively been teaching for years in faculty consultations: how to turn deep subject expertise into an online learning experience people can actually complete and use.

Format
Scrolling course with design activities
Audience
Faculty, corporate trainers, and subject matter experts
Length
40 minutes
  • Adult learning
  • Course design
  • Accessibility
  • Faculty development
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04

Corporate L&D

Employee Onboarding Experience

A guided first-week experience for new corporate hires

An interactive onboarding module that moves a new hire from orientation facts to confident participation — culture exploration, workplace scenarios, decision practice, and a final check for understanding.

Format
Slide-based interactive course
Audience
New corporate employees
Length
25–30 minutes
  • Onboarding
  • Corporate L&D
  • Scenario design
  • Culture
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05

Customer Education

Customer Product Training

Product onboarding and certification for software customers

A product academy module that takes a new customer from first login to a certified workflow — guided walkthrough, simulated interface practice, customer scenarios, and a certification assessment.

Format
Slide-based interactive course with simulation
Audience
New customers and admins of a SaaS product
Length
30 minutes
  • Customer Education
  • SaaS
  • Simulation
  • Certification
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06

Leadership & Manager Enablement

Leadership Conversations

Scenario practice for the conversations managers avoid

A decision-driven module where managers practice feedback, performance, and workload conversations in realistic situations, then receive coaching feedback on the consequences of each choice.

Format
Slide-based branching scenario course
Audience
New and mid-level people managers
Length
30 minutes
  • Leadership
  • Scenario design
  • Coaching feedback
  • Behavior change
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07

Workforce Development

AI Workplace Essentials

Practical, responsible AI use for everyday knowledge work

A grounded introduction to workplace AI: what these tools actually do, how to prompt for useful output, where the real risks are, and how to decide when not to use them.

Format
Scrolling module with practice activities
Audience
Corporate employees adopting AI tools
Length
25 minutes
  • AI enablement
  • Workforce learning
  • Responsible AI
  • Practice-based
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08

Compliance

Healthcare Privacy & Compliance Training

Microlearning for staff who handle patient information

A scrolling compliance module that treats privacy as a set of daily judgment calls rather than a list of rules — short sections, click-to-reveal detail, realistic near-misses, and a final quiz.

Format
Scrolling microlearning module
Audience
Healthcare employees and contractors
Length
20 minutes
  • Compliance
  • Microlearning
  • Healthcare
  • Scenario design
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09

AI Enablement

AI Productivity Toolkit

Short lessons and practice for putting AI into everyday work

A practical toolkit module: short lessons, worked examples, practice activities, and downloadable job aids that help people move AI from curiosity to a repeatable part of their workflow.

Format
Scrolling microlearning with practice activities
Audience
Knowledge workers and team leads
Length
25 minutes
  • AI adoption
  • Microlearning
  • Performance support
  • Workflow design
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