July 11, 2024 – Niels Floor | The ninth annual learning experience design conference LXDCON’24 took place June 11 to 14. With this year’s theme “Let’s play!” we had fun exploring how play, gamification, and game design can boost learning experiences. Here are some of the lessons that I learned!…
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May 9 2024 – Mitch Whitehead | Imagine a training program that ditches lectures and icebreakers for questing and adventure, where participants become heroes on an epic adventure to build their skills and slay their dragons. This isn’t fantasy; it’s the core of QUEST, a game-based system for learning experience…
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July 3 2023 – Niels Floor | The most frequently asked question about learning experience design (LXD) is “What is Learning experience design?” Once you know the definition of LXD, many wonder how learning experience design is different. LXDCON’23 has the answer! Figuring out how LXD is different depends on…
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April 25 2023 – Maaike Mintjes | Michael Schurr, a 2nd grade teacher in New York, was trying to figure out how to encourage discovery learning in his classroom. As a first step, he interviewed his students. The interviews revealed that it was not the curriculum, but the physical space…
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August 1, 2022 by Niels Floor | The seventh annual Learning Experience Design Conference LXDCON’22 offered a variety of engaging activities spread out over four days. We learned a lot and I would like to share a couple of key take-aways with you. The art of learning experience design Let’s…
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What problem are we trying to solve? After covid-19 emergency, lots of companies started working remotely on a large scale. A remote work, however, requires rethinking completely the social part of organizational life, especially for what regards interactions and communication flows. As we know, connecting with colleagues informally is helpful…
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June 10, 2020 by Patrick van der Bogt Visualisation was one of the key components of last week’s Learning Experience Design Conference. So let’s practice what we preach. On Wednesday June 3rd Marieke Welle Donker and I put together a Design Lab session about testing. We chose an interview format…
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UMOJI is a safe and fun way to learn more about the feelings and emotions of others. This is the communication challenge we set out to solve… Disclaimer: My wife and I have been sitting on this personal project for a while. It ties in so well with the theme…
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Hi there! This is Israel Gutiérrez from Microverse. I want to share with you the early results of my design sprint for LXDCON 2020. It’s the first time that I participate in an activity like that, so don’t be very hard with your feedback to this newbie 🙃 I have…
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Companies and new graduates often complain that higher education does not adequately prepare graduates with the soft skills needed to be successful in the workplace. This is especially true of communication as communication in academia looks, feels and sounds different than it does in the so-called “real world”. My Learner…
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The creation of the learning process was based on design thinking. You can find the whole process visualized on the Miro board here. To explain that better I would like to present the key concepts connected to each of the steps: Ideate and empathize I tried to design an…
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This learner experience is intended to coach an adult learner on developing their social awareness skills. The learner I designed this for (let’s call her Lara) is an adult who has trouble connecting with individuals in her personal and professional life. In group settings, she feels stress and anxiety watching…
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Author: Karolina Roziewicz. Communication intervention description: Develop skills necessary for clear and concise explanations needed at leader level, put across information and knowledge in an understandable manner. Desired learning outcome: I CAN articulate ideas clearly in a logical order, applying a (modified) storytelling technique. I AM confident and cool about…
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Step 1: Goal Help my student learn how to communicate in a more accessible way. Step 2: Person/Learner Especially now, given the Covid situation, access to learners is difficult. So, I am using my girlfriend as my learner and co-creator. I tried to build in as much co-creation as possible.…
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The big shift to online education asks for new ways to create activating learning activities. Especially the interaction between teacher and students and students among each other has gained some extra boundaries. Not all students feel equipped to engage in the classes, especially when they do not know who’s on…
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During the virtual learning experience conference LXDCON’20 we welcome participants from all five continents. Over thirty countries are represented and together we did a global learning experience design sprint. Check out the assignment here. You can do this sprint individually or in a (small) team. The results can be shared…
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June 27, 2019 On March 20th, 21st and 22nd it was time for the fourth annual learning experience design conference. This year we, from Shapers and initiators of LXDCON, partnered up with AUAS, DSS, CFI and HKU to host it at the University of Applied Sciences in the capital of…
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November 13, 2018 - The second annual Asian learning experience design conference was a blast. In case you missed it or if you want a quick recap, here are three take-aways.
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November 25, 2017 - If you want to learn, you need to try new things. That's exactly what we did by organising the first Asian learning experience design conference in Singapore. Let me share my personal experience with you about what happened during LXDCON Asia 2017.
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April 10, 2017 - Relive the second annual learning experience design conference with this online LX2017 magazine.
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March 20, 2017 - There is so much that I - Niels Floor - have learned from organising and participating in LX2017. Here are three things that really struck me.
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