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INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN · WORKSHOP FACILITATION

Make the next step
something people can do.

I’m Kyle. I design learning experiences that give people something to try, inspect, and improve. My work connects instructional design, hands-on AI teaching, and workshops that turn a room’s ideas into material a team can use.

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Published Coursera instructor · ASU learning design · collaborative workshops

Coursera · Guided Project
Original Coursera lesson goals slide describes drafting, refining, feedback loops, and checking content against goals.
Original 2024 lesson material · published Guided Project
Featured work A real lesson, and the review that made it stronger.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE

CourseraGuided Project instructor

Arizona State UniversityLearning design & AI analysis

KeepMakeWorkshop design & research

SEE THE TEACHING · 1 min 24 sec

Watch one minute of the lesson

I demonstrate how a café’s audience, a hook, and a call to action change the prompt. The learner is then asked to refine the audience or tone further.

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Original Coursera café-post demonstration from Kyle’s lesson.

Edited teaching excerpt · 2024 · narration enhanced during production with Adobe tools and ElevenLabs. This is course instruction, not live workshop footage.

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  1. 00:00–00:18A prompt gives Brew Bliss a specific audience and asks for a Facebook post with a hook and call to action.
  2. 00:18–00:40After inspecting the output, the lesson suggests further changes to audience information or tone.
  3. 00:40–01:20I recap specificity, delimiters, and the role of clear instructions before closing Task 2.

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SELECTED WORK

A lesson to practice. A workshop to build on.

Follow the work from the problem to the decisions that shaped it.

THE THREAD THROUGH MY WORK

Listen closely.
Make room to try.

Kyle Hobson, supplied portrait.

A good question can change
the whole story.

I came to learning design through documentary storytelling, technical communication, and UX. Each asks me to notice what someone is trying to understand and where the explanation stops helping.

That question follows me into the work: a beginner comparing two AI drafts, a team sketching a memory they want to preserve, or a mentor deciding whether a suggested task fits a learner. I like turning an abstract discussion into something people can look at, try, and question together.

Outside this work, I run tabletop games. The setting is different, but the attention is familiar: explain enough to begin, listen to what the group does, and adapt the structure around the people in it.

MS, User ExperienceArizona State University · 2024 Also: UX communication, electronic media,
and a lifelong interest in how people think.

From a learning need to a usable experience.

Instructional design

Connect the learner’s task with objectives, worked examples, practice, assessment, and revisions informed by review.

Workshop facilitation

Give a group clear prompts, room for individual contribution, and a path from discussion to artifacts and next questions.

AI literacy & enablement

Teach people to give useful context, inspect generated outputs, and make the next revision with a purpose.

How I build learning with others

Concrete practice, room for critique, and an honest account of what was evaluated.

What changed after a reviewer challenged your course?

The review found choices that were too easy to eliminate and feedback that revealed an answer. I revised the distractors, added application to a definition question, and pointed retry feedback toward the relevant task. The documented revision shows my response to critique; improved learner performance still needs measurement.

See the reviewer finding and my revision
How do you facilitate without taking over the ideas?

I give people a sequence and something concrete to work on. For KeepMake, I designed and circulated the activity plan, then helped document the workshop output and synthesis. The sketches and directions were collaborative. My contribution was structuring the work and helping the group carry it forward.

See the workshop plan and shared outputs
How would you check that learning transfers?

I would ask people to apply the same judgment to a new task, explain their choice, and revise after feedback. For the AI course, that means a fresh content request rather than repeating the demonstrated prompt. This is the next evaluation I would run; the existing course record does not establish a transfer result.

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TAKE THE STORY WITH YOU

The Learning & Facilitation package.

A concise career overview and a visual walkthrough of the work.

A GOOD PLACE TO START

What should people be able to do next?

For instructional design, learning experience design, AI literacy, customer education, and workshop facilitation.

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