Ways I Can Help You
Good design goals are business goals expressed as behavioural goals – Anders Toxboe
Consulting Services
Need help connecting training to your company’s business goals? Let’s work together on a blueprint for a program or standalone course that aligns your company’s goals with the learning needs of the people in your organization.
I’ll work with you from the beginning of a project to its end to ensure that the learning experiences we create inspire the employees in your company to elevate their productivity and potential.
We’ll take a big-picture view of your organizational learning and development challenges to identify and bridge any knowledge or skill gaps impacting the performance and behaviour of your company’s employees.
I’ll ask a lot of questions at first, but I promise that they’ll be intentional, brief, and focused on understanding, assessing, and matching your goals with the learning needs of your organization’s diverse workforce.
Timeline: 1 – 6 months
If you think day-long PowerPoint training sessions are outdated, you’ve come to the right place. I specialize in the design of eLearning courses uniquely tailored to my client’s business needs and learning goals.
Learner satisfaction is important to me and, of course, translates into more business success for you! Work with me on the design of custom eLearning courses delivered in bite-sized digital chunks of content — just enough information to keep the learners in your organization feeling motivated and engaged.
I’ll collaborate with you and your team on designing, building, and executing visually engaging and responsive eLearning experiences. Each online course I develop features various interactions, multimedia, and assessment types. I’m comfortable experimenting with different authoring tools and instructional design techniques to help you deliver training in a fresh, new captivating way.
All bespoke eLearning courses are fully accessible and SCORM compliant.
Timeline: 3 – 6 months
Customized eLearning Courses
Contracted Services
It’s not always easy finding the right instructional designer with the appropriate tech know-how to bring your bold, big vision to life.
I offer a variety of skills and experience that will help you solve an immediate organizational development need. Whether you’re looking for short-term guidance on your next employee compliance training program or need an extra pair of hands (and eyes) to create a standalone online course, I’m here to help.
I’ll provide comprehensive and flexible consulting and instructional design services for a specific project. Typically these placements last between one to six months.
You’ll have my focused attention and expertise in the following areas:
- Learning experience design (LxD)
- Content writing
- eLearning development
- Instructor training
- Quality assurance and assessment
Timeline: 3 – 12 months
Kind Words
"I was first introduced to Melissa by a colleague helping us develop online eLearning resources for our network. We brought Melissa in to help us transform an existing educational resource into an online experience.
I really appreciated Melissa’s ability to adapt to a set of loosely defined goalposts that developed as the project progressed. This flexibility was balanced with her discipline for good design. She asked the right questions to create a solution that met the need and maintained a consistent approach throughout the delivery of the final product."
Melissa has extensive experience in learning and design. Her experience comes through not only in the results she achieves but also in her consultative and supportive approach.
I look forward to working with Melissa again in the future!"
"We were looking for ways to improve the learning experience of our students and implement a more consistent format and structure for our online courses. From the project's beginning, Melissa could identify the gaps in our approach and guide us to where we wanted to go.
Ultimately, she worked with our team to develop a learning solution that our staff loves interacting with. Melissa enthusiastically tackled this project and inspired us with her passion for teaching and learning. We can’t wait for another opportunity to engage with her."
How We’ll Work Together
Book a call
Send me a message or schedule a 30-minute discovery call to discuss your learning and development needs.
Develop a plan
I’ll work with you and your team to develop a roadmap for a training program or course.
Build the experience
We’ll design and build a solution tailored to your needs through collaboration and teamwork.
Test and Evaluate
Before you launch the final product, we’ll evaluate and test the design to ensure that it meets your business goals and needs.
FAQ’s
How do you design engaging courses?
I believe that the best courses are much more than a book or PowerPoint transferred to a screen. So, I like to get creative when designing a course by chunking and sequencing content into small digital chunks of just-in-time information.
I also enjoy leveraging different multimedia tools and visuals to drive learner engagement, increase retention, and boost performance.
What is your design process?
I use an agile instructional design approach grounded in adult learning theory to create meaningful, authentic, and compelling learning experiences for my clients.
My eLearning design approach is collaborative, iterative, and centred on learners and their journeys through a course or training program.
How do you work with subject matter experts?
Tapping into the ‘brain trust’ of an organization for their specialized experience and depth of skill is critical to the success of any eLearning course or training program I create.
I view my relationships with SMEs very much as a partnership where I guide them through the process of instructional design as they introduce me to their expertise on a particular subject.
What eLearning tools and learning management systems are your familiar with?
I use a combination of desktop and cloud-based software to bring my designs to life! I admit that I have a special preference for responsive and accessible eLearning authoring tools like Articulate Rise, Articulate Storyline 360, Adobe Captivate, and Lectora Online, which pair well with most learning management systems.
Speaking of, because I have worked in a variety of industries, I have specialized experience developing courses in D2L Brightspace, Moodle, Learndash, Canvas, and Workday Learning.
Start your Project
You have ideas, passion, and commitment. Let’s work together to bring your vision for a training program or course to life.