The D300 assessment
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D300 Identifying Learner Needs and a Research Problem, completed for you
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D300 Identifying Learner Needs and a Research Problem (LXD 6053, 3 CUs in the September 2026 WGU catalog) is the first of the three capstone courses in the M.Ed. Education Technology and Instructional Design, seated in term 3 of the two 32-CU specialization tables and term 4 of the 38-CU combined path, with the Learning Experience Design Lab (D299) stated as its prerequisite. Per the published description it introduces design-based research and covers its first two phases, identifying and analyzing the learning problem and reviewing the literature, while learners keep applying Design Thinking to empathize with learners and define the instructional problem, and learn to conduct a literature review of what is known and unknown about their topic. Coursework Ninja completes D300 done-for-you, fixed quote in writing first. From $99. Independent of WGU.
Next question: what does D301, the capstone's second course, add to the research problem?
WGU's published description opens the capstone series here: D300 is the first of three capstone courses in the program. It provides an introduction to design-based research and focuses specifically on the first two phases of the design-based research process, identifying and analyzing the learning problem and reviewing the literature. The course also requires learners to continue applying Design Thinking as they empathize with learners and define the instructional problem that their research will help them understand and address, and it teaches how to conduct a literature review to determine what research has already been done and what is unknown about the chosen topic. The Learning Experience Design Lab is a stated prerequisite.
The seat depends on which table your plan follows: term 3 of both 32-CU specialization tables (K-12 and Adult Learner) beside D299 and D301, and term 4 of the 38-CU both-specializations table beside D301 and D302. Either way it opens the closing research arc of the degree, and the literature review muscle it grades is the one the next two capstones assume. No certificate variant of D300 exists in the current catalog. Send the code and your track, and the flat quote comes in writing before work starts.
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- 3 CUs, capstone course 1 of 3: specialization term 3, combined-path term 4
- Design-based research phases one and two, learner empathy and problem definition, the literature review; D299 stated prerequisite
- Folds into the $3,500 master's package with the 6-month guarantee
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Coverage
What D300 completion covers
Design-based research, introduced
The description's frame: an introduction to design-based research as the capstone's method family. The scored habit is treating research and design as one loop, not a paper stapled to a project.
Problem identification and analysis
Phase one of the process per the description: identifying and analyzing the learning problem. A problem named at the wrong altitude (too broad to study, too narrow to matter) is the classic stall, and the analysis has to prove the problem is real.
Empathize and define
The description keeps Design Thinking running: empathize with learners and define the instructional problem the research will address. Learner evidence belongs in the definition, not just the designer's say-so.
The literature review
The description's second phase: conduct a literature review to determine what research has already been done and what is unknown about the topic. The known-versus-unknown gap statement is the deliverable the next course builds on.
Full degree plan integration
D300 alone is a single from $99. On a remaining M.Ed. list it folds into the flat $3,500 master's package with the written 6-month finish guarantee covering every course on the plan, this one included.
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Bottlenecks
Where D300 stalls capstone starters
D300 stalls students who expected the capstone to mean building and discover the first course is research discipline. These are the stalls we take over most often.
- A research problem chosen so broad that the literature review cannot bound it.
- Literature reviews written as annotated summaries with no known-versus-unknown gap, against the description's stated purpose.
- The learner empathy step skipped, though the description carries Design Thinking through the definition work.
- Design-based research confused with ordinary product development, and the methodology language missing.
- The D299 gate discovered at enrollment: the lab must be complete before this course, so term planning cannot swap them.
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Questions, answered
Per the September 2026 WGU institutional catalog, Identifying Learner Needs and a Research Problem (LXD 6053, 3 CUs) is the first of three capstone courses in the program. It introduces design-based research and covers the first two phases, identifying and analyzing the learning problem and reviewing the literature. Learners continue applying Design Thinking as they empathize with learners and define the instructional problem, and they learn to conduct a literature review to determine what research already exists and what is unknown. The Learning Experience Design Lab (D299) is a stated prerequisite.
Per the current catalog, all three M.Ed. Education Technology and Instructional Design tables: term 3 of the 32-CU K-12 (MEDETIDK12 202312) and 32-CU Adult Learner (MEDETIDA 202312) specializations beside D299 and D301, and term 4 of the 38-CU both-specializations path (MEDETID 202312) beside D301 and D302. If your degree plan shows LXD 6053, this is the course.
The catalog description states that the Learning Experience Design Lab is a prerequisite for this course, meaning D299 (LXD 6052). Since D299 itself waits for the foundations series and the pathway pair, D300 effectively stands at the end of the degree's whole build sequence.
No. The description calls it the first of three capstone courses: D300 identifies the problem and reviews the literature, D301 develops the solution and the research methodology, and D302 implements and evaluates. Each is a separate course with its own code, and all three have their own completion pages here.
WGU does not publish assessment formats in the catalog. The description centers a problem analysis and a literature review, and we confirm the current format for your exact catalog year at intake. The fixed quote covers whichever assessment the course carries.
One course starts at $99, with the exact figure fixed in writing once we know where you stand. On a longer remaining master's list, the master's package is $3,500 flat with the written 6-month finish guarantee covering every course on the plan, this one included.
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