D299: Learning Experience Design Lab

Learning Experience Design Lab is where everything converges — a genuine functional e-learning module prototype, built, tested, and refined with real peer feedback.

What D299 covers

The course requires learners to apply foundational learning experience design strategies to create an instructional solution in the form of an e-learning module. Learners identify an instructional problem and then design and develop a functional prototype of an e-learning solution.

The course provides an environment to apply foundational knowledge and skills, experiment with e-learning design tools and techniques, provide helpful quality feedback to peers, and receive quality feedback about their own module, and teaches the importance of obtaining and incorporating user feedback to continuously improve the learning experience.

The D299 performance assessment

Expect a performance assessment requiring you to design, develop, and iteratively refine a functional e-learning module prototype based on peer/user feedback.

Key topics in D299

• Functional e-learning prototype development
• Peer feedback and quality review
• Iterative improvement based on user feedback

Writing tips for D299

Follow the task instructions and rubric line by line

WGU performance assessments for D299 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 D299 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 D299 assessment as a real deadline.

Why students seek help with D299

Candidates sometimes submit a prototype without evidence of the iterative refinement based on real feedback the course specifically requires — the rubric typically wants that feedback-incorporation cycle documented, not a first-draft submission.

How GradeEssays helps with D299

Share your instructional problem and rubric, and your writer will help build a prototype with a documented, genuine feedback-incorporation and refinement cycle.

Prerequisites and program context

D299 requires completing the Learning Experience Design foundations series (D291, D292) and two pathway courses (one from each of D295/D296 or D297/D298) before enrollment.

• Master of Education, Education Technology and Instructional Design

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