What the LXD Evidence Assistant does

The LXD Evidence Assistant is a two-agent AI research pipeline built for learning experience designers and instructional designers. It takes a plain description of your learning design task and returns a synthesis of relevant academic research, plus a concrete learning flow, assessment strategy, and measurement plan grounded in that research.

Where the evidence comes from

We search five free, publicly documented academic APIs, and report honestly on each:

• OpenAlex — broad, current coverage of scholarly works
• CrossRef — DOI ground truth and publisher metadata
• ERIC— the U.S. Department of Education's education-research index
• Semantic Scholar — AI-enriched paper search (rate-limited on the anonymous tier and may return zero results for a given search)
• arXiv — preprints on AI and learning

We deliberately do not scrape Google Scholar — it offers no public API, and scraping it violates its terms of service.

Disclaimers

• AI may produce inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated information. Always verify citations against the original source before relying on them.
• Not every paper has a DOI. Papers without one are labeled “No DOI” rather than presented as validated.
• This tool is not a substitute for professional instructional design judgment, subject matter expertise, or peer review.