Instructional design & learning experience

Twenty years teaching people who didn’t want to be there.

Hi! I’m Marc LeMay. I taught music theory to students who were required to take it, and it taught me what I design for now: you have to earn someone’s attention before you can teach them anything. So I cut the exams and assigned projects instead. Make something, then defend why it works.

Selected work2026

01 Conscious Discipline at Home A parent-facing module that asks parents to type what they’d actually say, then responds to it. Free-text role-play, answers checked by rules that run on the parent’s own device, and an honest account of the first parent test. Write-up & beta → 02 A sample module, built in Rise 360 The parts of the Conscious Discipline module an authoring tool was right for, plus a short account of where the tool fell short. Write-up →

03 A game that teaches something real Short, playable, and openly skeptical about points as motivation. In build

04 Sequencing a graduate course Thirteen slides from a music course I wrote and taught at FSU, annotated for the order I put them in: what a learner meets first, and what I hold back. Slides →