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Day 19 / 60Week 2 · Learning ScienceMini project

Mini project: improve a bad learning experience

Learning goal

Redesign a weak learning experience and justify every change with evidence.

Estimated time

40 minutes · self-paced

Warm-up

Which course from your audit deserves rescuing?

Main lesson

Brief

Take the audited experience and produce a redesign proposal: the problems, the evidence-based fixes, and a before/after of at least two screens.

  • Problem list with severity
  • Redesigned objective
  • Two rebuilt screens (Canva, PowerPoint, Figma or Rise)
  • One retrieval activity with real feedback
  • Rationale citing the principle behind each change

Why rationale matters

example

In interviews, the rationale is what separates a designer from a decorator.

Examples from practice

  • — A 30-slide policy deck reduced to a 6-screen decision guide.

Interactive quiz

What makes a redesign portfolio piece strong?

Reflection

Which change will make the biggest difference to a real learner?

Daily challenge

Post your before/after to the community for one round of critique.

Portfolio task

Save 'Project 2 — Learning experience redesign' with before/after images and rationale.

AI design tools

Ten assistants for this lesson

AI Mentor

Instructional design questions only

Hi! I'm your ID Mentor. Ask me anything about mini project: improve a bad learning experience — or instructional design in general.
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