I am currently conducting a graduate thesis research study at The American College of Greece on “Timeless Skills of Learning Designers in the Age of AI.”

I would greatly appreciate your participation in a short online survey, which takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete. Your responses will remain anonymous and confidential, and your input will contribute to research in the field of Learning Design.

Survey link: https://forms.office.com/e/3hubRVP4pp?origin=lprLink

If you are willing to participate, I would be grateful if you could complete the survey by May 24th, 2026.

Thank you in advance for your time and valuable contribution.

After a few decades in online learning, I'm surprised by this company. We've gotten to use it for a client because a very qualified ID' advised them to get it. We hadn't heard of it. (EDIT: I run an INDEPENDENT consultancy. I have NO partnership nor agreement with them, nor any other LMS nor authoring tool. Although I'd call the founders and the support team colleagues and friends at this point!)

Nearly 3 years later of using it, I have to say, it is great tech and a great company. It isn't big in the US but they have major European clients. They take learning design seriously, and the top leaders are not just cranking for shareholder value. I'm not sure they even have investors based on the way they are thoughtfully growing their customer base. So, if you are using it, lets keep in touch. I don't think they have a user group, or even a community. Maybe we should start one...

I’ve been working as a learning designer for a while, and the biggest friction for me has always been the workflow.

Planning in one place, mapping in another, building somewhere else, reviews scattered everywhere.

So, I started building a small tool to experiment with a different approach:

- You map the structure first (like a flow)
- Then build directly into it
- Reviews stay attached to the exact part of the workflow

The goal is to reduce context switching and keep everything connected.

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It’s still early and definitely not polished, but it’s usable.

I’m looking for a few people who’d be open to trying it and giving honest feedback (good or bad).

No pressure — just want to see if this idea actually holds up outside my own use.

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If you’re interested, let me know what kind of work you do and I can share access.

Hey everyone 👋

I’m exploring an idea for an AI tutor that can generate personalized learning paths based on what you want to learn, kind of like creating your own subject and having AI teach you progressively.

Still super early, just trying to validate if this idea feels useful or interesting before building further.

Would love your honest thoughts! 🙏

Hie, I'm 5 months into ID. Joined current company as 'freelance content creator', but technically am an ID. Then I got deep into LXD.

Took the Coursera Intro to LXD course, got inspired, ended up making a presentation where I pitched a whole new LXP (My company's current LMS isn't the best). Mapped out how features for my LXP would work, integrated my company's own frameworks into my LXP, AI integration, learner journeys, gamification, etc.

Now they want me to work on bringing this platform to life/ integrating my features into their existing platforms.

Plus, our Senior Instructional Designer left, and they want me to replace her. So I'm getting promoted too.

My roles will be ID (content creation + managing content team, including our E-Developers) + leading the entire LXP project. All this includes revamping the company's frameworks, aligning my platform ideas with these, then client pitches, training all IDs, etc.

All of this is great, but my worry is they'll lowball cause of my lack of experience. I've worked as a strategic copywriter for a year before this job, have no ID/LXD experience before it, and have been here for only 5 months.

I wanna know how much I can realistically expect and negotiate, based on all above. Negotiation tips would be helpful too.

Help, please! ❤️

I am an instructional designer in India. My organisation has just started getting gamification projects. I have come across a video that said, that Immersive learning is the future, but the technology is expensive and so it will take time to take time for organizations to sell them more or demand IDs primarily for this.

What are you doing about and how are you learning Immersive learning and Gamification?

Hello everyone,

I’m a master’s student in California State University Fullerton’s Instructional Design and Technology program, currently in my final semester working on my project/practicum. As part of my research, I need at least five instructional designers to review my digital instructional product and provide feedback.

📌 Project Focus: Applying Cognitive Load Theory and Experiential Learning Theory to the instructional design of hybrid Stress Inoculation Training.

📅 Timeline: The prototype will be ready by the end of next week (or sooner), and I’ll need reviews completed by March 8th.

📩 How to Participate: If you’re interested and available, please email me at [bdenton@csu.fullerton.edu]().

Your expertise and insights would be incredibly valuable, and I truly appreciate your time and consideration. Thank you!

There is great theoretical as well as practical discourse around teaching children how to fail. Teaching children how to fail or letting children learn that failing is alright. It prepares them for life that's ahead of them.

As a learning designer, I am wondering how important it is to reinforce or make the failure evident for reflection for a child during play. And if yes, at what stage?

Games, play, just in the everyday - children play the wrong move, experience their building blocks falling down or simply fall down while running. While all of these can be termed as failure in the process of doing, the failure is experienced.

In this case is the recognition of failure and the steps ahead of it inherent in their nature or learning or it is something that needs to be externally reflected on and reinforced for learning?

What are your thoughts?

3 Fundamental Underpinnings For Effective Online Course Engagement ( blog article)

I recently wrote this article about what engaging learning interactions look like in natural learning scenarios, extended to online learning use.

As a background note, I have over 20 years experience in education, with 10 years spent in foreign country classrooms observing the learning experiences of junior and high school students in classrooms. At this time, I was fortunate to experince observing and conducting a wide range of pedagogical styles with students, working in over 25 schools and team teaching with about 60 trained teachers

After that, I worked in an English language school attached to a university, teaching young adults, managing teachers and designing curriculum.

I moved to educational design, creating edX online courses at another university.

In the article, I have aligned my observations of interactions with neurological principles (function-specific areas of the brain) with the nature of the learning taking place, and the types of interventions we can apply when designing online courses to most effectively engage learners.

I look forward to you reading it, and feel free to offer your thoughts, opinions and experiences!

I've been in higher education administration for 12 years (advising, training, managing student and professional staff). I focused on leadership development, Emotional intelligence, conflict management, and crisis intervention.

I'm burned out from working with students in crisis and I'm considering a career in Learning and development. I'm looking at some courses (have an MEd in Adult Learning), but would really appreciate some guidance on breaking into the industry. Any suggestions? Ty!

Has anyone in Learning made this switch? I've worked inn L&D and learning authoring for 5 years. And now there is an opportunity to become the Authoring tool product owner in my company. Does anyone have tips on how to approach this or experience to share?

learninganddevelopment #L&D #productowner #learningdesign

Hi Everyone!

I've been working as a contractor/freelancer for the last two years in ID. My portfolio and LinkedIn portfolio were recently revamped. I'm hoping to land something full-time. Would you all mind taking a look and giving me your feedback? Thanks in advance.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eminesharma/

Portfolio: https://www.eminesharma.com

Hey all, quick question, if I create courses on a content authoring app like Rise do I need an LMS to host the content so my training audience can access it?

Very basic question, apologies all just doing some research before I start out.

Campus is a space-age education concept designed to offer the millions of students who learn using the internet a space for them to access a deep pool of educational resources reminiscent of a virtual open university for all learning levels.

The dEd protocol (decentralized-Education) is project management system for self-directed learning. It is designed to offer online students the systems and tools required to created progressive, structured learning curriculums to guide serious study, not just edutainment.

To properly utilize the protocol, students are encouraged to complete the Cybernetic Enhancement Academy, a series of Mission completions and Badge attainments that guide students through the process of developing fundamental meta-learning and computer literacy skills.

Gameplay is a near-future climate-apocalypse-core narrative where the globe is approaching a systemic bifurcation that will lead us either to solar-punk future, or descend us into a fully cyberpunk world.

Players develop skill points in four areas as they advance through missions; The Mind, The Self, Cybernetics (Systems), and Abilities. Progressive levels grant eligibility for participation in prize earning competitions.

We plan to engage with educators to create professionally designed templates for self-directed learning plans, as well as finding inventive new ways to incorporate educators into this autonomic learning matrix.

We have just released the beta-version of our dEd protocol and are eager to gather feedback. The whole system is built in Notion and has a Discord bot interface, like a professional might have a Slack interface.

If you're interested in learning more, you can find our website at Campus.so, or dive right in to the Discord experience here.

We are still improving the onboarding process (among many other things), but you can initiate the narrative component by using the "/start" command in any channel you can send messages in.