Michael Y.
Instructional Designer/eLearning Developer | Gamification | Canvas/LMS
I design online learning experiences people actually want to complete. If your course is a wall of text, your training feels like a slide deck, or your Canvas site is a file dump, I turn that material into interactive instruction — scenarios, gamified practice, LMS builds, and custom browser activities — so people finish it. I take a learning project the whole way: idea → learning architecture → content → interaction → development → testing → launch Instructional design, teaching, writing, multimedia, and web development sit in one process, so you are not splitting the work across five people to get from brief to launch. What I Bring • MEd, Instructional Design • MEd, Educational Leadership • BA, German Teaching • Instructional design at BYU — online world language courses built in Canvas • Classroom teaching (elementary, secondary, and post-secondary) • Curriculum development • German (fluent) • Author and editor • Educational games and interactive learning • Multimedia production and voiceover I work from SME interviews, existing content, or a blank brief. Hire me when you need a course, an LMS experience, or an interactive learning project.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $841
Billed in all: $9,115$9.1k
$421 in the last 6 months
Across 11 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 15% in Lyrics Writing
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
- #30Lyrics Writing206 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #10Top 15%🇺🇸#10 of 59
- #161Short Story Writing834 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #55Top 19%🇺🇸#55 of 275
- #176German to English Translation696 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #6Top 25%🇺🇸#6 of 44
- #213English to German Translation846 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #8Top 25%🇺🇸#8 of 35
- #450Elearning1,538 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #142Top 29%🇺🇸#142 of 544
- #487Instructional Design1,486 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #199Top 33%🇺🇸#199 of 637
- #2,160Creative Writing10,453 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #629Top 21%🇺🇸#629 of 3,286
- #2,482Article Writing12,520 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #584Top 20%🇺🇸#584 of 2,954