Context-driven LxD - A Framework

The biggest mistake we make as learning designers?

Not spending enough time understanding the context.

My co-founder and friend, Harsh Doshi keeps saying -

“Anything that is context-less is meaningless”

We spent the last 2 weeks doing on-ground research for a project that we’ve been working on.

Here is the framework we built to help us understand our context better and the tools we used to synthesise all the information.

🧑🏻‍🎓 Learner

❓Questions to answer:

• Who is our learner?

• What are the biggest challenges they face in their life?

• What motivates them?

• What do they aspire to become?

• What do their days look like?

• How much time do they realistically have to learn?

• Who influences them?

• What are the patterns of behaviours that we’ve seen across learners?

🛠️ Tools for synthesis:

🏫 Institute/ Organisation

❓Questions to answer:

• Who are the different stakeholders in the institute/ organisation?

• What hierarchy exists within these?

• What influences each of these stakeholders?

• What motivates each of these stakeholders?

• What does the learning environment look like?

• What is the learning culture?

• What are the available resources?

🛠️ Tools for synthesis:

🌏 Ecosystem

❓Questions to answer:

• What is the larger ecosystem in this space?

• What has been the evolution of this space historically?

• What are trends that are emerging?

• Who can influence ecosystem-level changes?

• What are key opportunities?

🛠️ Tools for synthesis:

When we started asking ourselves & the team these questions we realised that there were so many blind spots. You need to find ways to discover and unpack these BEFORE you get to the design phase!