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"Part of the problem with all this talk about 'learning experience' is it's questionable whether learning is actually experienced at all."
This brilliant quote, by Leonard Houx, skewers the recent hubris around ‘learning experiences’. Everything is an ‘experience’ and what is needed is some awareness of good and bad learning experiences. Unfortunately, all too often what we see are single event, over-engineered, media heavy, video, animation and single courses that research shows, result, not in significant learning, but…
1) Clickthrough (click on this cartoon head, click on this to see X; click on option on MCQ) that allows the learner to skate across the surface of the content,
2) Cognitive overload (overuse of media)
3) Diversionary activity (infantile gamification).
