D298: Quality and Impact of Adult E-Learning Solutions

Quality and Impact of Adult E-Learning Solutions closes the Adult Learning Designer pathway with a genuine evaluative lens — a quality framework and real learning-analytics data on whether adult e-learning is actually working.

What D298 covers

The course is the second of two courses in the Adult Learning Designer pathway. It introduces the issues learning experience designers often encounter when designing e-learning experiences for adults, directing learners to current research on issues and innovations in designing online learning experiences for adults.

The course outlines a quality framework for evaluating e-learning solutions for adults and provides opportunities to apply it. Learners analyze dashboard data to determine the impact an e-learning solution has had on learner engagement, effort, and learning, and how those insights can optimize the learning environment.

The D298 performance assessment

Expect a performance assessment requiring you to apply a quality framework to evaluate an adult e-learning solution and analyze dashboard data to determine its impact.

Key topics in D298

• Challenges in adult e-learning design
• Quality framework for adult e-learning evaluation
• Dashboard data and learning analytics

Writing tips for D298

Follow the task instructions and rubric line by line

WGU performance assessments for D298 are graded against a fixed rubric — every rubric line has to be visibly addressed, usually with a labeled heading that mirrors the rubric language. Skipping a rubric point because it seems minor is the single most common reason a competent submission comes back "Not Yet Competent" for revision.

Ground design decisions in a specific learner population and instructional problem

Learning Experience Design courses like D298 typically ask you to apply Design Thinking or instructional design models to a specific learner population and problem, not design in the abstract. Evaluators are checking whether your reasoning fits that concrete audience and problem, not a generic e-learning module.

Because WGU is self-paced, don't let "no deadline pressure" become no submission

There's no weekly due date forcing progress, which means procrastination costs more at WGU than at a traditional term-based school — a stalled task can quietly eat weeks of a term. Treat your own target date for each D298 assessment as a real deadline.

Why students seek help with D298

Candidates sometimes evaluate a solution qualitatively without the dashboard-data-driven impact analysis the course specifically requires — a complete evaluation includes genuine data analysis, not opinion alone.

How GradeEssays helps with D298

Share your e-learning solution scenario and rubric, and your writer will build an evaluation combining the quality framework with genuine dashboard-data analysis.

Prerequisites and program context

D298 requires Designing E-Learning Experiences for Adults (D297) as a prerequisite and closes the Adult Learning Designer pathway.

• Master of Education, Education Technology and Instructional Design

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