Ola Jachtorowicz

Learning designers cannot effectively design a curriculum, a classroom, or a product without centering the experience of the learner, with specific attention to the learner’s identity and emotions.

In LDIT 101 at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, we asked “What do Learning Designers Do?”

After learning from guest experts from GBH, Google, and Project Zero, we constructed concept maps as a capstone to pull together the breadth of learning theories, pedagogies, and design approaches we had covered.

Learning designers draw on both theories of learning (behaviorism, cognitivism, and sociocultural theory, andragogy, and constructivism/constructionism) and diverse technologies ranging from immersive environments (AR/VR, simulations)and games to UX/UI research and design.