Learning engineering is an old idea that has emerged anew in the education landscape. This session will use research and case studies to open up the field of learning engineering to explore competencies related to learning engineering, organizational factors, praxis effect and how learning engineering occurs within multidisciplinary teams.
In 2015, publications such as Inside Higher Ed, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other journals began discussing the re-emergence of the role of the learning engineer and the concept of learning engineering. But how do we implement learning engineering meaningfully into our organizational structures of K-12 Education, higher education, government and corporate environments?
Drawing on sources such as Modernizing Learning: Building the Future Learning Ecosystem, Inside Higher Ed’s 2017 article “Boosting Faculty Buy-In For Online Learning”, “Instructional Design in Higher Education” by Intentional Futures, Hall and Hord’s “Implementing Change: Patterns, Principles, and Potholes,” and Rogers’s Diffusion of Innovation theory, the facilitators will lead participants to “finding the line” of learning engineering.
This session will examine what is involved in learning engineering. It will examine competencies, educational program needs, organizational and implementation issues, effects on praxis and how learning engineers work with multidisciplinary teams.
Participants will review competencies for, and higher education programs that prepare people for the practice of learning engineering. They will work together to develop opportunities to integrate and leverage learning engineering. Participants will gain practical information for developing opportunities that support learning engineering’s role in creating engaging, next generation learning solutions.
There will be four main parts to the session:
Part one of this education session will be a conversation about what learning engineering is. It will share general competencies and roles for learning engineering, as well as organizational, implementation and praxis considerations for the use of learning engineering.
Part two of this session will provide participants (divided by their own organizational environments) with time to review and discuss the different educational programs, categorization and competencies for learning engineering practitioners and develop a baseline for developing learning engineering competencies, skills and abilities within their own organization.
Part three will provide participants with case-based scenarios that enable them to explore the implementation of learning engineering in order to identify barriers that can hinder the use of learning engineering.
Part four will let groups will come together to share their conclusions on learning engineering within their organization with the entire group.