2023–2024 Webinar Series
Instructors as Designers: Considering UX Design in OWI
“Fundamentals of Learning Experience Design (LXD): Creating Accessible and Engaging Classroom Spaces”
Friday, June 7, 2024, 4:00–5:30pm ET
Presented by:
Jessie Borgman (She/Her)
Casey McArdle (He/Him)
Webinar overview
In 2015, Potts, et. al. wrote about the creation of the Experience Architecture program at Michigan State University, where their
goal was to teach how we can become “architects of digital experiences” and “positively influence the ways in which we have
traditionally built products and services by focusing on human experience first instead of technology.” In 2009, Jesse James
Garrett noted that “Experience Design is the design of anything independent or across media with human experience as the
explicit outcome and human engagement as the explicit goal” (qtd. in Cummings, 2009). Garrett constructs a bridge between
experience and engagement for learning experience designers to begin to think beyond just student experience with course
content, but also student engagement. Our workshop will focus on these concepts of being an architect of digital experiences
and constructing bridges that keep content and human experience and engagement as the goal. We will begin with a discussion
of definitions and terminology to orient attendees to the language and systems that exist within Learning Experience Design
(LXD), Experience Architecture (XA), and accessibility. We will explore the breakdown of LXD and User Experience (UX) under the
umbrella of Experience Architecture and how these roles can exist and thrive within academic spaces. The workshop will also
connect LXD to engagement in terms of getting students to engage with course content and learning outcomes.
Participants will
1. Engage in a design challenge either in small groups or as a whole group (depending on the number of attendees)
2. Focus on creating a learning experience that focuses on engagement, accessibility, and takes into consideration the
constraints of designing for a specific situation/course/content/field, and so on
3. Apply the fundamentals of LXD that will be explored at the beginning of the webinar. In doing so, attendees will be
nudged to build systems and spaces that create experiences for their students to engage in course content and learning
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