My name is Joanna Wiebe.  I am involved in the design of Agile learning for an international, public technology corporation — Orbitz Worldwide.

This is a photo of me, smiling at my husband, in Kingston, Jamaica in late 2009.

Isn’t it nice how my shirt matches the fence?!

I have started this blog is to explore learning experience design (LxD).

What, you may be asking, is learning experience design?

Here are a few preliminary thoughts:

  • an offshoot of the discipline of user experience design
  • a synthesis of the wisdom I have gained from a career in interaction design and information architecture, with new understandings from a Masters degree in online learning, from the Center for Distance Education at Athabasca University (Alberta, Canada)
  • an application of the work of Christopher Alexander to group cognitive activity
  • understanding how human and non-human agents interact to form social learning networks

I look forward to conversations with you that will expand on these definitions of learning experience design.