Hi, I'm Van (Stella)
As a lifelong learner and instructional designer, I believe learning should be engaging, meaningful, and efficient.
With over 10 years in the field, I’ve made it my mission to create learning experiences that truly connect—benefiting the learners, their sponsors, and the business as a whole.
MY STORY
Instructional Design is my ''ikigai''
In Japanese, there’s a beautiful word, “ikigai,” meaning “a reason for being.” For me, instructional design is exactly that.
My journey into this field began when I realized my passion for improving learning experiences, particularly those that fell short. I found myself driven to make every piece of content clearer, more interactive, and simply better. So, in early 2020, I took a leap into instructional design—and I’ve never looked back.
Training Theories & Models I applied in my training sessions:
- ADDIE & SAM
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Andragogy (Adult Learning)
- Gagné’s 9 Events of Learning
- Kirkpatrick’s Levels of Evaluation
- Mayer’s Principles for eLearning
Tools I can use:
- Authoring tool: Articulate Storyline & Rise (Advanced level)
- Visual design: Adobe Illustrator, Canva
- Video creation & collaboration: Camtasia, Vyond, Frame.io, CapCut, Adobe After Effects
- Data analysis & Visualization: Power BI, Kibana
- Gen AI Prompting: ChatGPT, NotebookLM, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, and many more.
- Coding: Learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Others: MS 365, Google Suite
During my tenure in Training & Development career, I’ve had the privilege to collaborate with international companies in different industries, such as:
- Education: Wall Street English, Manabie K12 Edtech, One-on-One Edtech
- Technology: KMS Technology, GeoComply
- Financial services: Home Credit, Hanwha Life
- FMCG: Nescafe
My Design Toolbox 🎨:
- Training Topics: Onboarding, technical training, sales & service, soft skills, and more.
- Delivery Methods: I blend e-learning and instructor-led training (live or virtual), mixing the best of both worlds.
My latest projects
The projects I have done for the above companies are confidential and can’t be shared with the public. To know more about my technical skills, in my portfolio, you can refer to the e-learning works I made, following the themes of Articulate’s weekly e-learning challenges.
My Graduation project for Articulate Storyline course
This is the final project I made for the Articulate Storyline course that I have studied in the last 3
Before & After Effect: Ben Thanh Market
This is a project I made to apply Scrolling Panel and Slider functions in Articulate Storyline. I got the inspiration
Meet the Team Interaction
This project was created in response to Elearning Challenge #342 on Elearning Heroes Community. I got the inspiration from Jodi
Làm video hoạt hình bằng công cụ Vyond – Animated Videos with Vyond
Vyond là một công cụ rất thú vị để làm các video hoạt hình một cách tiện lợi và nhanh
Drag and Drop Interactions
Tools I used: Articulate Storyline, Powerpoint, Adobe Illustrator