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Schools As Providing Transformational Goods, Sasha Barab
Schools As Providing Transformational Goods, Sasha Barab
The Emerging Learning Design Journal
In an age of radical innovation, transforming societies, and globalized relationships, our opportunity to unlock human potential has never been more salient. While a variety of approaches have shown promise in this area, achieving this goal at scale has been hampered by thinking and designs that position learning as a process of knowledge transmission and content acquisition. Clearly content has a significant role in increase people potential, but many designs treat context acquisition as necessary and sufficient, neglecting meaningful engagement with one’s life possibilities as an integral part of the learning process. Instead, herein I posit that relevance, use, and …
Lxd: Ten Critical Differences Between Lx And Ux, Jeffrey Bergin
Lxd: Ten Critical Differences Between Lx And Ux, Jeffrey Bergin
The Emerging Learning Design Journal
The term “Learner Experience Design” is beginning to gain currency. Yet, there is little agreement over what that term means. Is it just user experience design for learners? In my opinion, LX design differs from UX design in ten important ways. Taken together, these differences make the job of learning experience designers quite distinct from the job of user experience designers.
Drawing Inspiration For Learning Experience Design (Lx) From Diverse Perspectives, June Ahn
Drawing Inspiration For Learning Experience Design (Lx) From Diverse Perspectives, June Ahn
The Emerging Learning Design Journal
This article was adapted from a keynote lecture given on June 1, 2018, at the Emerging Learning Design Conference in Montclair, NJ. In this essay, I argue that the emerging practice of learning experience design (LX) affords the opportunity to develop more engaging, innovative, and effective experiences for learners in diverse settings. However, in order to realize this potential, designers must expand our definitions of what counts as a learning experience, for whom, and for what ends. In addition, I challenge us as designers to foreground equity in our designs by beginning with the assumption that whatever learning situations we …