Accomplishment This post focuses on professional development and ways of gaining valuable skills you can apply to your work in LX design. Assuming a management role has shifted my work lens from “why and where” to “how and what.” Leading a talented team of learning designers is humbling, challenging, and more rewarding than I could have imagined. As we have …
You just might be a Learning Experience Architect
DM from Keith: Hey I’m looking for some input. Got a minute? I’ve been asked to take on a role that combines staff capability building in edtech with “exploring innovation”, whatever they mean by that. Specifically we are looking at new tech, tools, platforms and workflows for students and teachers. DM from me: What do you need? DM from Keith: …
The Democratization of Learning #sxswedu
In preparation for our panel at SXSWedu, the panelists and I agreed to write a blog post about how we made the connection between UX and learning design. As I started thinking, I kept coming back to “why,” rather than “how.” To me, LX means the democratization of learning. It means separating subject matter expertise from “knowing” what students need. …
A conversation on teaching with infographics
After Marcus McDonald posted a guest post on LXDesign.co on his experience teaching with infographics, visual thinking experts @Davegray and @blairrorani had some advice for him. So many gems in this conversation, we thought we would collect them here. [View the story “A conversation on teaching w infographics” on Storify]
Confessions of a newfound LXer – episode 1
This is a guest blog post by Perrin Rowland. Perrin is the elearning project director for the Intueri Education Group, previously she was the Learning Technologies Team Leader for the Waitemata District Health Board in Auckland, NZ. Despite having the loudest laugh in any room, Perrin also makes a mean Carnitas. You can find her on twitter as @perrinia. I’m …
My experiment in the #LXDesign of information presentation
This is a guest blog post by Marcus McDonald. Marcus says of himself: “I’m an aspiring educational technologist or is that a technology educationalist…I seek tools and frameworks to enhance the student experience in health care education.” There is no denying that the use of PowerPoint in academia has taken some criticism over the years. In the overhead projector days it …