Course Design 101: Teach Anything in the Workplace! (Udemy.com)
Create a LX Learner Needs Analysis
Created by: Marcela Pineros
Last updated May 2025
What you will learn
- Complete a LX Gap Analysis
- Complete a LX Learner Summary
- Develop LX Learner Personas
How it compares
Against the other 503 rated Udemy courses in Teaching & Academics on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 4% of them
- Reviews1,216#130 of 504 by number of reviews
- Length0.5 hoursshorter than 99% of them
- Last updatedMay 2025more recently than 66% of them
Course Description
What is LX Design?
Learning Experience (LX) Design is an approach that puts the learner at the heart of every training experience.
What this course is all about:
We've all been there. Forced to sit through training that makes us weep, snore, and contemplate tossing our laptop out of a window. Learning is an experience, and it shouldn't hurt! I will walk you through the initial steps for producing a transformational, engaging, and effective course design plan. You will download templates to help you focus your thinking and ensure you have all of the information you need to support your learners in their journey.
Who is Marcela Pineros?
Think about a time when you've learned something new and felt exhilarated by it! I live for those A-ha! moments. After 20+ years of experience designing solutions in the learning space, I've gathered a set of tools and resources that I regularly use to make those moments happen. Having designed successful solutions for clients like NASA, Microsoft, Citigroup, Oracle, Steve Madden, Perry Ellis, Nissan, Toyota, and more, I have confirmed that these strategies apply to nearly every industry and type of business.
Who is it for? Maybe you are completely new to training and have been asked to build a course from scratch. Maybe you have years of experience and have looked at the typical course thinking , "There has to be a better way." There is. Let's get started!
What will I do:
For your project, you will prepare a robust and effective learner needs analysis:
Briefly describe the course you are planning to teach. (150 words or less!)
Prepare your completed LX Gap Analysis.
(If relevant to you) Prepare your completed LX Learner Needs Analysis.
By the end of this course, you will have in your hands a LX Needs Analysis that you can use as a starting point to design a series of A-ha! moments, strung together by practical tips and activities everyone will be excited to test out on the job.
Instructor Details
- 4.1 Rating
1,216 Reviews
Marcela Pineros
Marcela Piñeros currently leads the Sales Enablement team at Stripe. Before that, she built an extraordinary team at New Relic. As the founder and owner of 11 Ideas Consulting, Marcela specialized in training sales teams within the Fortune 100. With over 20 years of experience in the education space, Marcela has designed innovative solutions to empower individuals in organizations from SMBs to companies on the Global Fortune 100 list. Her client list spans multiple industries including as retail, hospitality, finance, technology, pharma, government, energy and higher education.
Marcela strives to create learning moments that have a memorable and lasting impact. From face-to-face workshops to 3D simulations, Marcela incorporates best practices to add immediate value and meet the objectives of her clients. She accomplishes this by putting the target audience at the center of everything she does, applying processes that have been refined over two decades to achieve the optimal transfer of skills and knowledge into the workplace. Known for instructional design that yields visible results, Marcela sleeps, eats, and breathes creative learning solutions.
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Reviews
By Sinéad T on 5/24/2026
I really like how LXD was directly applied in this course design. It's bringing the content to life through examples, human interaction, making it practical with easy frameworks and even the quiz question help further apply the knowledge. Really to the point and digestible.
By Elena Zheleznova on 2/19/2026
Fresh and good structured information, nicely represented. For the next videos I would appreciate to know more about: - Where to begin when mapping out a course from scratch - How to divide need to know information versus nice to know information Thank you!
By Anonymized User on 5/16/2025
I really liked how I understood more about my learner, but I missed going deeper into how to evaluate whether my training actually worked, I think it was a little superficial.
By Xiaofei Xu on 1/21/2023
Not very detailed in showing how a course is designed based on the Gap analysis and learner personas..
By Andrea Wakim on 9/7/2022
This course was practical and presented the information in small chunks, making it easy to understand and remember. I will be using the templates provided moving forward when designing courses, and I love how she demoed how to use them with real-world examples.
By Wanda Washington on 12/20/2020
Full Of useful information for the workplace.
By Mas Que on 12/8/2020
The author is knowledgeable about the subject. The course is a good introduction to the subject of LX/Instructional Design, unfortunately too short. There is a promise in Part 2. I would buy it to hear more about what the author has to say about this large topic.
By Gemma King on 11/22/2020
love the simplicity and bite size videos and examples . Key ingrediants to those with busy lives ..which is msot of us!
By Wilmarie Moreland on 11/16/2020
This course was a great introduction and gave me some very helpful tools that I'm able to use straight away. Highly recommended.
By Victor Onyekere on 7/25/2020
I enjoyed this course. Short and precise
By Thomas Ulrich on 7/20/2020
I deign and deliver training and this course has provided good, basic information for that exercise. It is clear and easy to understand; not muddled with theories.
By Heng Kee James Wong on 7/11/2020
Simple but excellent pointers.
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Overall Score : 82 / 100






