Instructional design & learning experience

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

Nobody signs up for music theory. It’s required, and most students walk in braced for it. Two decades of rebuilding that course taught me what I design for now: you have to earn someone’s attention before you can teach them anything. Everything I build starts there.

Hi — I’m Marc LeMay. I design learning for people who didn’t choose to be in the room: parents, new hires, anyone taking required training. Remote, from Tallahassee and — a few months a year — London.

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, a rubric a model can apply consistently, and a plain account of where a model has no business being. Case study →

02 Reference module, built in Rise 360 The one section of the flagship an authoring tool was right for, plus a short account of how I drew that line. Sept 24

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 →