Mike Stein Design
Transforming training with learner-centered design, interactive online training, and serious games.
Course Design
Engage Your Learners
Safety Steve at The Solar Farm
This demo was created as part of a training course on solar facility awareness. In this project, learners walk through a scenario to help them understand the requirements involved with entering the solar site. Drag and drop the proper PPE on Safety Steve to learn why each piece of equipment is needed to enter the site. Then unlock the gate to enter the solar facility!
Chasing the Boss
This module was created to help college-aged students gain some of the soft-skills needed to get a job such as professionalism, interviewing, and communication with potential employers in the finance area. This project uses scenarios to show consequences of different approaches to communicating with potential employers.
Cardiac ReCycle
This module was created in collaboration with Professor Rachana Lankapalli for her anatomy & physiology class. The objectives were to help students practice foundational concepts of the cardiac cycle. Students answer questions to help increase the heart size of "Otto the Grunch". Each time students answer a question correctly, his heart size grows, but when they answer a question incorrectly, it shrinks.
Guardians of Immunity
This module was created in collaboration with Professor Rachana Lankapalli for her anatomy & physiology class. The objectives were to introduce students to innate immunity. Students play the module before class and then apply their knowledge during class with in-class activities. First students test their knowledge with a quiz question and get immediate feedback. Then students participate in an interactive gamified demonstration of each step of the innate immunity process.
Managing Difficult Behavior
This module was created in collaboration with Professor Rachana Lankapalli for her anatomy & physiology class. The objectives were to introduce students to innate immunity. Students play the module before class and then apply their knowledge during class with in-class activities. First students test their knowledge with a quiz question and get immediate feedback. Then students participate in an interactive gamified demonstration of each step of the innate immunity process.
New Faculty Crash Course
Brand new to teaching in higher education? This 6-part course will teach you the essentials you'll need to get started. Topics include teaching in the Post COVID environment, adult learning theory, pedagogical concepts, teaching technology, instructional strategies, and building classroom community.
Let's Create a Masterpiece
Custom Training
$65*
*per hour
I'll help you design and develop custom training using Articulate Storyline 360.
Define learning objectives
Project discovery
Design + development
Hosting + SCORM
Serious Games
Make Learning Fun
Food Fall
Use your browsers microphone to practice speaking English words. Study the words, then test your memory and pronunciation by playing the game. Clear the words before the food piles to the top!Click here to play Food Fall
Search for Life
Search for life on the exoplanets of far away stars by comparing the emission and absorption spectra of 10 different elements. Identify the elements in 10 stars, then check to see if they can sustain life.Click here to play Search for Life
DTM
Explore each stage of the Demographic Transition Model by playing through a simulation related to the characteristics of each stage to learn what life is like at each point in the stages of society.Click here to play the DTM game
Bank On It
Bet on your own knowledge and earn money for correct answers. Bank On It tests both learners' knowledge AND confidence in their answers and rewards them for certainty and correct answer.Click here to play Bank On It
Hoop Shooter
Play basket ball and answer questions to test your knowledge. Grab the ball and tap to charge your shot, then tap again to shoot.
Earn as many points as you can before the timer runs out.Click here to play Hoop Shooter
Chicken Crossing
Play as a chicken and navigate through traffic to collect eggs scattered across the road.
Avoid the cars and collect all the eggs to test your knowledge and move on to the next level.Click here to play Hoop Shooter
Let's Make a Game!
Add your own questions to a quiz game template or build a custom game!
Quiz Game
$5
Create a 10 question multiple choice quiz using any of the existing templates.
10 questions
Correct + incorrect feedback
10 templates to choose from
72-hour turnaround
Custom Learning Game
$65*
*per hour
I'll help you design and develop a custom learning game.
Define learning objectives
Project discovery
Design + development
Hosting + SCORM
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Instructional Design Coaching
Unlock your instructional design potential with career coaching and tailored software training.
Resume + Portfolio Evaluation Session
$100
Get insights and feedback on your resume and portfolio from an experienced instructional design hiring manager.
Resume & portfolio feedback
Live online debrief meeting
Job search strategies
Career goal discovery
1-on-1 Coaching + Software Training
$65*
*per hour online
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Microsoft & Google Apps
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