Learning Experience Design - 2nd Edition by Donald Clark (Paperback)

About the Book

AI is no longer a learning tool; it is learning infrastructure. If learning leaders fail to redesign learning around AI, they risk designing experiences for a world that no longer exists.

Book Synopsis

Learning experience design is at a turning point. AI is accelerating how learning is created and delivered, but it has also raised familiar challenges around attention, motivation and engagement. As organisations rush to adopt new tools, many learning strategies still rely on outdated assumptions about content, courses and control.

Learning Experience Design shows how to redesign learning for this new reality while remaining grounded in how people learn best. This edition explores how AI and generative technologies can be used to create learning experiences that are adaptive, engaging and social, rather than automated. It demonstrates how learning can respond to learner data, context and performance needs, using generative text, images, audio and video alongside personalised learning journeys, simulations, games, workflow learning and performance support.

Throughout the book, the learning designer is redefined as an Expert-in-the-Loop: someone who combines learning science, emotional and social insight, and technological capability to guide and govern AI-enabled learning systems. Drawing on current research and real-world examples, the book addresses critical challenges such as skills sustainability, ethical data use and the changing role of subject matter experts.

With new content on managing AI learning projects and designing learning in the flow of work, this edition provides senior learning leaders and designers with a practical, future-ready framework for building scalable, human-centred learning ecosystems.

About the Author

Donald Clark has over 30 years' experience in online learning, simulations, virtual reality and artificial intelligence projects. He was a founding member of Epic Group plc and the Founder and CEO of Wildfire Learning. He is a frequent global speaker, blogger, advisor and researcher on AI in learning and is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Derby. His books Artificial Intelligence for Learning, AI and Productivity and Learning Technology are also published by Kogan Page.