--Originally published at Emerging Education Technologies » FLN Hub Syndicated Posts
LX Design Brings Together Numerous Learning Disciplines
LearningExperienceDesign.com describes Learning Experience Design (LX Design) as, “the process of creating learning experiences that enable the learner to achieve the desired learning outcome in a human centered and goal oriented way.”
This page from sixredmarbles.com takes a more utilitarian approach, explaining that LX Design is “a synthesis of instructional design, educational pedagogy, neuroscience, social sciences, design thinking, and UI/UX”.
While exploring LX Design via the web, a good number of resources that dig deeper into the subject can be found. Once does come away feeling that this is very much an evolving construct, and that there really is no definitive definition (although I also noticed that the folks at Six Red Marbles have trademarked the phrase, so maybe they'll have more rights than others to ‘own' the official definition). Nevertheless, this encompassing idea is well worth exploring further and incorporating into course and lesson design practices.
Web Resources Exploring LX Design
LX Design: Joyce Seitzinger and Jessica Knott, Ph.D. developed this site, working with Mark Smithers. They explain on their Who We Are Page:
“Traditional learning design methods and processes don’t seem very well matched to the increasingly advanced digital services and products we both work on in our day jobs. Though on different continents, we’ve both been involved in industry projects and developments that have been driven by user experience design. And individually we decided it would make sense to begin using UX methods in our learning design work.”
This LX Design web page includes a good number of blog posts that provide tips, tools, and insights into Learning Experience Design and related topics.
This slide share from Marty Rosenheck offers some great visuals that both illustrate and educate:
This blog post, “Learning Experience Design in Action“, by Clark Quinn provides a nice set of principles and perspectives.
LearningExperienceDesign.com: I love this Mission Statement: “It is our mission to design a wise world where people learn from experiences they enjoy and deserve”. They are sponsoring Second Annual Learning Experience Design Conference in the Netherlands in March. This particular web site doesn't contain a lot of resources, but they do offer a few ways to connect.
Foundations of Learning Experience Design (LXD) Webinar Series: These webinars are a bit vendor- and product- centric, but they are free and on demand, and offer helpful insights.
This eBook by Robert Kelly, Creative Development: Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation and Invention comes up under a search for “exploring “learning experience design” resources”.
Free “DOLES Designing Online Learning Experiences” course from Stanford. While not focused directly on LX Design, this is a self-paced mini course that can equip educators to leverage elements of Learning Experience Design.
The ISTE article, “Design An Engaging Virtual Learning Experience In 5 Steps” incorporates key aspects of LX Design.
So, there you have it … a nice set of resources for exploring Learning Experience Design. Of course, since LX Design brings together numerous learning design disciplines, it would be easy to continue to build on this listing by adding resources specific to those disciplines. I just don't know how important it is to identify where one discipline “leaves off” and the other starts (if that makes sense).
Are you familiar with LX Design? Are there other resources you would recommend for learning more and helping interested educators understand the do's and don'ts of the concept? If so, we'd love to hear from you! Thanks!
