The Human Centered Design approach to Instructional Design
My approach to instructional design is the Learning eXperience design (LXD) model with origins in a human-centered design approach. Boller, S. and Fletcher, L.’s (2020) introduce the human-centered design approach stating, “It starts with a focus on people rather than the business desire for profit. It originated in the late 1950’s as a problem-solving technique that quickly morphed into a product development technique”. Human-centered design is often used to develop products focused on the user experience, this approach is significant to most of the technology we use today. As learning continues to evolve, it’s organic that the process should be focused on the learner to the extent that the learning experience is centered around them. The idea of applying the human-centered design approach to learning is called Learner Centered Design (LCD).
LCD addresses the diverse needs of learners and can be categorized as part of constructivism, which means learning results from individual and social interactions with the content and the expert (Egbert and Roe, 2021). The learning experience occurs through students learning to solve problems by finding solutions and organizing concepts into knowledge. Egbert et al, (2021) state, “The process of learning is the most significant aspect of the approach, because the goal is not just to learn a set of facts or procedures but to facilitate the acquisition of tools to make meaning from a broad range of content”.
These are two great resources for learning more about LCD and Human Centered Learning, both theories are rooted in the same principles and can be categorized as the same theory for the purpose learning theories.
Theory of Human Centered Learning
Theoretical Model for Teaching and Research: Learner-Centered-Design-Theory
References
Boller, S. and Fletcher, L., 2020. DESIGN THINKING FOR TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT. [S.l.]: AMER SOC FOR TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT.
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