Areas of expertise
Learning first. Humans first. Technology as a tool.
My expertise is not technology — it is learning: how people learn, where they struggle, how to simplify complexity, and how to design experiences that lead to understanding and application. The tools below serve that work.
Learning Strategy & Diagnosis
Determining what people actually need to understand, where understanding or adoption is breaking down, and whether learning is the right intervention at all.
- Learning strategy
- Problem diagnosis
- Needs and performance analysis
- Learner understanding
- Experience architecture
- Adoption strategy
- Learning evaluation
- Implementation planning
- Measurable improvement
- Stakeholder and SME alignment
Learning Experience Design
Designing the experience that moves people from confusion to understanding, application, and changed behavior.
- Instructional design
- Learning objectives
- Curriculum and journey design
- Scenario-based learning
- Practice and feedback design
- Assessment design
- Adult learning principles
- Backward design
- Formative and summative assessment
- Accessibility-aware design (UDL)
Science & Knowledge Communication
Translating complex research and technical knowledge so the people who need it can understand and act on it.
- Complex-content translation
- Scientific communication
- Research and knowledge translation
- Conservation learning
- Environmental education
- Field-based learning
- Public engagement
Supporting Tools & Methods
The production layer. Useful, familiar, and deliberately not the reason to hire me.
- Articulate 360 (Storyline & Rise)
- Moodle LMS
- Canvas LMS (training)
- ADDIE
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Storyboarding
- AI-assisted design and production workflows
- Digital learning tools
- Learning technology integration
Instructional design methods
Frameworks and methods used in real design work across education, higher education, and professional learning.
- Learning Strategy
- Learning Problem Diagnosis
- Experience Architecture
- Adoption Strategy
- Implementation Planning
- Complex-Content Translation
- Instructional Design
- Learning Experience Design
- ADDIE
- Backward Design
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Adult Learning
- Needs Analysis
- Learner Analysis
- SME Collaboration
- Scenario-Based Learning
- Curriculum Development
- Assessment Design
- Learning Objectives
- Storyboarding
- Professional Development
- Online Learning Design
- Accessibility-aware learning design
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- Inclusive learning practices
- Performance-Based Learning
- Formative Assessment
- Summative Assessment
- Learning Evaluation
Learning technologies — experienced
Tools used regularly in course design, delivery, and faculty support.
- Moodle LMS
- Canvas LMS (training)
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Teams
- Zoom
- Canva
- Adobe Express
- PowerPoint
- Google Slides
Learning technologies — developing
Actively building proficiency. Listed transparently rather than claimed as expertise.
- Articulate Storyline 360
- Articulate Rise 360
AI tools in the design workflow
One set of tools among many — used for drafting, structuring, and iteration, with instructional judgment kept where it belongs.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Lovable
- Cursor
- AI-assisted instructional design workflows
- Prompt engineering
How AI fits into the work
AI tools have changed the speed of instructional design, not its substance. Kirsten uses them for first drafts, restructuring rough content, generating alternative phrasings of objectives, and pressure-testing scenarios for plausible wrong answers.
What does not get delegated: analysis, objective setting, assessment alignment, accessibility decisions, and the judgment about whether a learning intervention is the right answer at all. That distinction is itself a design skill, and it is what the AI Workplace Essentials course teaches.