Learning Experience Design: From Ideas to Impact

​“By intentionally combining learning science with the principles of human-centered design, as well as social and behavioral psychology, learning experience design results in contextualized, outcome-oriented experiences where the learner leaves with something to remember.”   -NovoEd Course
 
NovoEd offers a free course a few times a year called, Learning Experience Design:  From Ideas to Impact.  It is a 6-week online course that is packed with extensive information about Learning Experience Design (LXD) and the tools necessary to create a successful experience.  I was fortunate to take this course this fall and feel like it has helped me understand new LXD trends and exposed me to a valuable workflow to utilize for future projects.  The online course is laid out in a way that showcases their learning platform and is taught by some of their LXD team members.  It has a wealth of information, but is chunked in a way that makes the learning efficient and manageable. Also, there is a wonderful “Look Behind the Scenes” section for each of the units in the course where the design team discuss their design and curricular choices for the course. 
 
The capstone project for this course was to create a blueprint for a learning experience initiative or course and present it to the community as well as your workplace (if appropriate).  Each week was dedicated to a part of the blueprint with explanation and examples that provided the opportunity to develop a personal blueprint and compare it to others’ blueprints including a model blueprint that was created for the course.  I chose to develop an onboarding learning initiative to increase engagement of diverse populations.  It was an interesting exercise and the blueprint is a wonderful model to help you build engaging and collaborative learning experiences.  The course provides really useful information about giving and receiving feedback and then provides the opportunity to do just that for your blueprint. 
 
It was insightful to take a course that explored what makes quality learning experiences while learning the why and how of course creation from the design team.  I know I will utilize many of the resources in the future.  I recommend this course for anyone interested in digging deeper into LXD.  More information can be found at on their website.