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Learning Is Dada

During the First World War, there was a revolution in the art universe against all that came before it. The world was in ruins; “the war to end all wars” had reduced it to madmen running around in hellish circles, trying to kill one tribe and replace it with another. Tribalism, Fear, Ignorance, Death.

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Stop Designing Courses

For many years the gold standard was the system by which the value of currency was defined for exchange; it was the most reliable standard of measurement to have the most valuable and prestigious thing to be traded for legal tender. It was something we could count on to hold its value.

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LX Perspectives: A Hot New Marriage

LX Perspectives is a series of guided articles by guest bloggers on LXDesign.co. We ask learning designers, education technologists, UX designers and others to share their views on what experience design can mean for education and learning. Each guest is posed 4 questions to explore this topic and free to share other thoughts as well.

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Open Collaboration Is the New Black

The problem with a really great idea is that it usually has to be groundbreaking, remarkable, and dominant before we will ever see it as a great idea. So its greatness brings with it our confusion about how to fit it into our current understanding of the world.

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LX Becomes You

As an LX designer I keep thinking about the relationship between people and tools. It’s always been so polite, really. I’m over here and you’re over there. I am in my personal space. I have control over it and it is defined by me. Or at least it used to be.

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To LX or Not to LX, That Is the Question

Something is rotten in Denmark, and it is not the cheese. As a Learning Architect for the last decade, one thing is really clear to me: Educators keep trying to use an older model of learning and innovate around the technology for its delivery.

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The Wild, Wild Next

It is most certainly true that we can no longer separate the technology we use to learn from learning itself. If we take that as a given, we must concede that we no longer look into technology for answers, but we look through it to see and understand our world.

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