WGU D291 Learning Experience Design Foundations I: Midterm
Exam (Units 1-7) - Questions with Correct Answers
50 questions
1. LXD treats learners' emotions as important because:
A. Emotions are irrelevant to learning
B. Emotions only matter for children
C. Emotions slow design
D. Emotions affect motivation, attention and memory
Correct Answer: D. Emotions affect motivation, attention and memory
Rationale: Affective factors matter.
2. A case study approach in D291 tasks requires designers to:
A. Memorize theories without applying them
B. Analyze a realistic scenario and recommend evidence-based solutions
C. Build an LMS
D. Skip analysis
Correct Answer: B. Analyze a realistic scenario and recommend evidence-based solutions
Rationale: Application of foundations.
3. In SAMR, using technology to create tasks previously impossible is:
A. Substitution
B. Augmentation
C. Modification
D. Redefinition
Correct Answer: D. Redefinition
Rationale: Highest level.
4. Which is an example of a learner outcome rather than a teaching activity?
A. Learners will create a project budget using a template.
B. The instructor will lecture on budgets.
C. Slides will be shown.
D. A video will play.
Correct Answer: A. Learners will create a project budget using a template.
Rationale: Outcomes describe learner performance.
5. Educational technology in LXD should be selected based on:
A. Popularity alone
B. Learning goals, learner needs and context
C. Cost alone
D. The designer's favorite tool
Correct Answer: B. Learning goals, learner needs and context
Rationale: Pedagogy before technology.
6. A design brief or project charter typically includes:
A. Only the course title
B. Final grades
C. Goals, audience, scope, timeline and stakeholders
D. Learners' personal data
Correct Answer: C. Goals, audience, scope, timeline and stakeholders
Rationale: It aligns the team.
, 7. Which team member is responsible for building media and course files?
A. SME
B. Sponsor
C. Developer
D. Learner
Correct Answer: C. Developer
Rationale: Developers produce assets.
8. Scope creep refers to:
A. Learners leaving a course
B. Shrinking deadlines
C. Uncontrolled expansion of project requirements
D. Reducing content
Correct Answer: C. Uncontrolled expansion of project requirements
Rationale: Manage with clear scope.
9. Working memory is limited to about:
A. A few chunks of information at a time
B. Unlimited information
C. Hundreds of items
D. One item only always
Correct Answer: A. A few chunks of information at a time
Rationale: Miller's 7 plus or minus 2; newer estimates about 4.
10. A professional learning network on social media aligns most with:
A. Behaviorism
B. Connectivism
C. Cognitive load theory
D. Classical conditioning
Correct Answer: B. Connectivism
Rationale: Connections as learning.
11. Scaffolding is most closely associated with:
A. Behaviorism
B. Social constructivism
C. Connectivism
D. Classical conditioning
Correct Answer: B. Social constructivism
Rationale: Wood, Bruner and Ross.
12. Chunking information into smaller groups is a strategy from:
A. Behaviorism
B. Connectivism
C. Cognitivism
D. Humanism
Correct Answer: C. Cognitivism
Rationale: Manages working memory.
Exam (Units 1-7) - Questions with Correct Answers
50 questions
1. LXD treats learners' emotions as important because:
A. Emotions are irrelevant to learning
B. Emotions only matter for children
C. Emotions slow design
D. Emotions affect motivation, attention and memory
Correct Answer: D. Emotions affect motivation, attention and memory
Rationale: Affective factors matter.
2. A case study approach in D291 tasks requires designers to:
A. Memorize theories without applying them
B. Analyze a realistic scenario and recommend evidence-based solutions
C. Build an LMS
D. Skip analysis
Correct Answer: B. Analyze a realistic scenario and recommend evidence-based solutions
Rationale: Application of foundations.
3. In SAMR, using technology to create tasks previously impossible is:
A. Substitution
B. Augmentation
C. Modification
D. Redefinition
Correct Answer: D. Redefinition
Rationale: Highest level.
4. Which is an example of a learner outcome rather than a teaching activity?
A. Learners will create a project budget using a template.
B. The instructor will lecture on budgets.
C. Slides will be shown.
D. A video will play.
Correct Answer: A. Learners will create a project budget using a template.
Rationale: Outcomes describe learner performance.
5. Educational technology in LXD should be selected based on:
A. Popularity alone
B. Learning goals, learner needs and context
C. Cost alone
D. The designer's favorite tool
Correct Answer: B. Learning goals, learner needs and context
Rationale: Pedagogy before technology.
6. A design brief or project charter typically includes:
A. Only the course title
B. Final grades
C. Goals, audience, scope, timeline and stakeholders
D. Learners' personal data
Correct Answer: C. Goals, audience, scope, timeline and stakeholders
Rationale: It aligns the team.
, 7. Which team member is responsible for building media and course files?
A. SME
B. Sponsor
C. Developer
D. Learner
Correct Answer: C. Developer
Rationale: Developers produce assets.
8. Scope creep refers to:
A. Learners leaving a course
B. Shrinking deadlines
C. Uncontrolled expansion of project requirements
D. Reducing content
Correct Answer: C. Uncontrolled expansion of project requirements
Rationale: Manage with clear scope.
9. Working memory is limited to about:
A. A few chunks of information at a time
B. Unlimited information
C. Hundreds of items
D. One item only always
Correct Answer: A. A few chunks of information at a time
Rationale: Miller's 7 plus or minus 2; newer estimates about 4.
10. A professional learning network on social media aligns most with:
A. Behaviorism
B. Connectivism
C. Cognitive load theory
D. Classical conditioning
Correct Answer: B. Connectivism
Rationale: Connections as learning.
11. Scaffolding is most closely associated with:
A. Behaviorism
B. Social constructivism
C. Connectivism
D. Classical conditioning
Correct Answer: B. Social constructivism
Rationale: Wood, Bruner and Ross.
12. Chunking information into smaller groups is a strategy from:
A. Behaviorism
B. Connectivism
C. Cognitivism
D. Humanism
Correct Answer: C. Cognitivism
Rationale: Manages working memory.
