Instructional Design, Situational Interest, and User Experience: Promoting Children's Online Engagement Through Learning Experience Design

• In Event: Learning Experience Design and Design Thinking

Abstract

Recently, children were mandated to transition to a completely new mode of learning in a matter of weeks, facing new challenges with heightened anxieties. Therefore, we aim to better understand how our learning experience design (LXD) efforts support or hinder children’s engagement during an online, video-based math course. This study operationalized LXD through leveraging e-learning instructional design (ID) for promoting situational interest (SI), emphasizing human-centered design to support user experience (UX), and integrating SI and UX to foster student engagement in an online environment. Results provide practical implications for intentionally iterating our designs to sustain children’s online engagement as we prepare for future instances of traditional, online, and even hybrid models of instruction.

Authors

• Joseph Wong, University of California - Irvine

• Natalie Au Yeung, University of California - Irvine

• Bella Lerner, University of California - Irvine

• Lindsey E. Richland, University of California - Irvine