Click here for the “Why Monben Is a Great Candidate for Your Instruction Design/L&D Team” mini-course, made using Articulate360.

I created this course as a custom work sample for hiring managers and recruiters considering me for a role on their Instructional Design or Learning & Development team. Due to confidentiality agreements, I’m unable to share previous course materials from past institutions—so this project serves as a representative example of my design approach and capabilities.

To create this mini-course, I incorporated the following methodologies:

Backwards Design: Starting with the end in mind, I identified what hiring managers need to know about me—and built each module to meet those objectives.

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: The format and scripting of this course were intentionally designed to be short, clear, and easy to grasp with minimal assessments/quizzes—acknowledging that the average hiring manager is likely reviewing multiple candidates, managing competing priorities, and working within tight time constraints.

Bloom’s Taxonomy: I designed this mini-course to intentionally trigger multiple levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy in the viewer. For example, I included clear summaries of my credentials and tools to activate remembering and understanding. I walk through my instructional design process to encourage applying and analyzing. And by sharing examples of past projects and how I approached them creatively, I aim to engage evaluating and creating—showing hiring managers not just what I’ve done, but how I think and innovate as a designer.

This mini-course was built using the free version of Articulate360 in 6 hours without AI and without a template. According to Microsoft, work can be 9x faster with AI. That means if you hire me to your team and I get the full version of Articulate or other authoring software, I can make even more advanced materials!

Customer Education Resources

I’m also including a few links to recruitment and marketing materials I developed for Rutgers University. In the higher education context, our primary audience includes prospective students and their families, so these pieces were created as part of customer and family education initiatives. I designed them using Canva and Adobe.

Student/Family/Customer Education Flyer for Recruitment

High-impact flyer crafted to capture the attention of prospective students and families during international recruitment campaigns. Distributed at in-person events by departments across the university and shared digitally over 50,000 times, this piece served as a key touchpoint in Rutgers’ global outreach and engagement strategy.

Student/Family/Customer Education Flyer for Retention

Strategically designed flyer created for both digital and print use to promote targeted programming for students and customers seeking to re-enroll after stopping out. Used in outreach campaigns across departments to support re-engagement and retention efforts, this piece played a vital role in reconnecting with prospective returners and driving renewed enrollment.