Hello everyone, welcome to our OER! We are excited to share with you what we learned about experience design (XD). This is an interesting and challenging topic to discuss because it can be quite broad. We have attempted to pick the most useful and practical information to share with you here. 

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We have focused our attention beyond XD alone to make it relevant to educational practitioners and looking into the world of Learning Experience Design (LXD). LXD takes experience design one step further, integrating learning models into the design of experiences. According to Beard (2018) “design facilitates the movement from informational, to relational, and on to transformational approaches to learning. As such the phases can be seen as progressing levels of learning, with each phase antecedent to those that follow”.

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In the context of mobile learning, learning experiences can be intentionally designed to make use of mobile tech affordances, integrating social and physical interaction. Embedding social and relational experiences into learning experience design moves the learner from the informational to relational levels of ecological complexity, allowing learners to make meaning through “doing” on multiple levels such as physical and social. For example, learners engage with information in new ways when social interaction is integrated into a mobile learning experience since they are embodying and interpreting knowledge; mobile technology affords the potential for learners to physically interact with information through their devices and communicate with others either verbally or through their actions. 

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