A new era has been ushered into modern way of learning — Learning Experience Design
Education is not something entirely new or fresh to any of us. Even though you are not working in an education domain related areas in your professional life, it’s something we all have in common. It’s something that we have been doing since the childhood and intend to pursue also.
Majority of us are convinced by the fact that Education and Teaching are two peas in a pod. What if I told you that education is not always about Teaching and it’s rather about Learning to Learn.
Education isn’t always about what to teach and how to teach. It’s more about what to learn and how to learn.
Is the Traditional Instructional Design going out of fashion?
Real learning doesn’t only happen through instruction. Many advance researches are consistently showing that real learning doesn’t only happen through instruction but through experiences also.
According to Deloitte’s 2019 Global Human Capital Trends report, organizations rank “changing the way employees learn” as the primary challenge they are currently facing. The training we have been building as instructional designers isn’t cutting it anymore. It’s not enough to focus on creating “instruction,” but instead we must focus on developing engaging and collaborative experiences that extend outside the bounds of the course to elicit long-lasting change. For that to happen, we need a mindset shift.
A new era has been ushered into modern way of learning.
What do you mostly remember? Is it the way you have been taught or is it the way that you learned something? I personally believe it’s the way or how you learned something. Everything we learn comes from experiences. It doesn’t necessarily have to take place inside the school or the classroom. It can eventuate at your working place, your home any anywhere else in the world. But the experience does matter. That’s what this whole Learning Experience is about.
- Discover: Understand the learners and assess their needs.
- Define: Obtain insights and define the program.
- Curate: Select relevant content.
- Develop: Develop and refine the learning experience solution through testing and feedback.
- Learn: Deliver the course and gather feedback from learners.
- Evolve: Iterate the course as necessary.
What is Learning Experience Design (LXD) ?
LXD brings two accustomed concepts together. It’s User Experience combines with Instructional Learning and brings those together in order to provide learners with the best learning experiences not purely from the learning point of view but also from the user experience point of view.
It’s an education process that treats learners as the center in order to make their learning more efficient, effective and a delightful experience. LXD puts more emphasis on the learning experience of the learners where as the instructional leaning puts more emphasis on the instructions.
Learning Experience Design is the process of creating learning experiences that enable the learner to achieve the desired learning outcome in a human centered and goal oriented way
Niels Floor
Educators should move beyond their comfort zone of “How to teach this concept” into “What is the most suitable way for my student to learn and understand this concept”
They should create an environment that makes learning relatively easy for student by understanding “What my students know”, “How they think” and finally to “find a suitable way to make them learn”. You can always get feedback on how student reacts to the experiences and try out new things for them to learn.
Reference : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learning-experience-design-last-days-instructional-salas-cplp/
https://www.td.org/insights/the-sun-has-risen-on-learning-experience-design
