Phase 1 of the ILDF design process · Explore the evidence
LXD Evidence Assistant
Ground every learning design decision in the academic literature. Your evidence companion searches, screens, and synthesizes the research, then translates it into an instructional/training progression, assessment strategy, and measurement plan you can defend to a stakeholder.
What you get: an evidence brief from the research, plus an instructional/training progression, assessment strategy and measurement plan built on it. You still design and build the course. This gives you the evidence-based plan to build it from.
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Why not just ask ChatGPT?
Ask ChatGPT and you get a confident answer. Bring that answer to a stakeholder who asks “where does that come from?” and you are on your own.
The LXD Evidence Assistant selects evidence relevant to your ID/LXD context and constraints and translates that evidence into an instructional/training progression. It searches five academic databases (OpenAlex, CrossRef, ERIC, Semantic Scholar and arXiv) and ties its recommendations to the papers behind them, with a link when one is available. This gives you systematic, evidence-grounded, context-specific, actionable guidance for your instructional design approach, rather than the general answer an AI model can provide.
Evidence Research
Searches OpenAlex, CrossRef, ERIC, Semantic Scholar, and arXiv for the most relevant recent academic literature, then screens and ranks every result for relevance to your learning design task.
Evidence-Based Design
Translates the evidence synthesis into a concrete instructional/training progression, assessment strategy, and measurement plan. Recommendations are traceable back to cited sources.
Complete Transparency
Every paper it cites is pulled from five real academic databases (OpenAlex, CrossRef, ERIC, Semantic Scholar, and arXiv), not generated on the fly. Each is labeled by DOI status, honestly, with no false claims of full-text validation, so every citation traces back to a real paper you can open and check yourself.
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