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Let's focus on: "Experience" as part of Learning Experience Design. There are fundamental differences between designing an experience and designing a course, training, or curriculum. An experience goes beyond the content, instruction, exercises, assessments, and tools being used. These can be part of the experience, but they are not the experience itself. Experiences include everything that happens to and around you. They influence what you do, think, and feel. That’s why #learningexperiencedesign focuses on the whole experience. Focusing on the whole experience, requires a more holistic design approach. For example, emotion plays a vital part in how we experience things. We all have memories that are strong because of how they made you feel. In education there tends to be a clear emphasis on cognition while emotion is hardly part of the conversation. In LXD, emotion is carefully considered. ❤️ Designing for emotion and cognition is key to creating a powerful learning experience.

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Paul Zamora

LUX/Instructional Designer/Developer/Learning Strategist & PM • Changing the L&D Landscape ~ One Brain @ A Time •

1mo

Close but you completely missed out on Engagement and Technical Expertise. Also, Emotional training is only relevant on soft skill training. If you are training on how to (e.g.) governmental agency procedural policy, there is no emotion only engagement, retention, and follow through. If your course is too big, poorly ID'd, or is unstable and crashes or has broken links, and a bad GUI, the Learner Experience will be terrible. I've created hundreds of compliance training courses that were scrutinized by entities like the FDA, SEC, or FTC and they don't care about your feelings. Make the experience more than just emotions.

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Bernd Gibson

Synergist of Awe & Wonder Immersive Learning Catalyst Author of The Immersive Theatre of Learning. LX Designer, Certified Experience Economy Expert #309, Emotional Geographer, NeuroHeart Educational Coach, WXO

1mo

Well said. It sums it up quite nicely. Emotions, in my opinion, have three functions in learning: they help learners connect and open up, they create lasting memories and they keep learners engaged.

Darcy Moncada Linsdell, PhD

Associate Medical Director and Learning Experience Designer 🎨 at Caudex l An IPG Health Company. Commercial Medical Education and Medical Affairs

1mo

I love this! Emotions can be so powerful. 🧠

Michelle Oliveira

Mãe de Julia | Gestão de projetos educacionais | Educação a distância | Treinamento e Desenvolvimento | Design de Experiências de Aprendizagem | Palestrante | ESG | Soft Skills

1mo

Excellent!

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