You will explore how learning engineering is being used in academic and workplace settings to extend data enabled decision-making, encourage formative, continuous improvement and extend the use of complex instrumentation (e.g. simulations and AI) in learning settings, and will see examples of skillsets needed to apply these methods in practice.
As technology advances, modes of learning grow, and access to learner data increases, the learning environment has become more complex. Learning engineering is a process and practice that applies learning sciences, using human-centered engineering design methodologies, and data-informed decision-making to address these complexities. (ICICLE: IEEE IC Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering). How does learning engineering do that? How does it differ from and complement allied disciplines, such as instructional design? What are the skills and competencies for learning engineering?
In this workshop, hosted by volunteer members of ICICLE, you will explore examples and workflows on how learning engineering is used in academic and workplace settings and what skillsets are needed for learning engineering. A draft framework for describing learning engineering projects and programs has been developed by ICICLE. You will help refine the framework to contribute to a growing field of learning engineering, discovering potential ways to adapt learning engineering in your career and to your organization.
In this session, you will learn:
- How learning engineering is defined
- How learning engineering is applied to learning practices in workplace and academic settings
- Where it complements and overlaps with other learning disciplines
- What competency models and frameworks for learning engineering have been developed
- How to contribute and participate in the field of learning engineering
- How to adapt and apply learning engineering to your career and organization
This session will explore examples and workflows on how learning engineering is used in workplace and academic settings and what skillsets are needed. It will bring together conference participants to give input into models for scaling the profession of learning engineering and wide-scale use of learning engineering process and practice models.
1. WELCOME EXERCISE We will begin with a Interactive exercise learn more about the interests backgrounds of the workshop attendees
2. DEMONSTRATION We then will feature a brief demonstration of learning tech workflows with accompanying diagrams to visually demonstrate the processes employed to create learning experiences , to design learning experiences, to create huma performance technology designs… and to show where we are beginning to need scientific partners to help us extend capacity when it comes to the learning sciences, the data sciences and the computer sciences. This is where we are starting to see learning engineering emerge.
3. PRESENTATION What is Learning Engineering? Learning Engineering as Profession, Practice and Process: What does a learning engineering practice involve? ICICLE was formed in 2017 to look at the practice and profession of Learning Engineering. We’ll share with you what we have learned: definitions, practices within learning engineering, learning engineering as a profession and examples of workplaces and academic institutions using engineering processes.
4. INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION What does it take to do learning engineering? Who is a learning engineer? What does a learning engineering team do?
5. GUIDED DISCUSSION What does this mean for Instructional Designers and Learning Experiences Designers? We will have a breakout activity to unpack selected topics for theoretical learning engineering competencies framework and identify promising practices from existing use cases such as human-centered design approaches, multidisciplinary team models and data-informed practices.
6. CHECKLIST; We’ll have a collective review of breakout summaries, input to the proposed models and frameworks and alignment of learning engineering with instructional design and other disciplines.
7. Closing: What have you learned and where do we go from here?
We will explore ways that you adapt what you learned for your career and your organization and discuss action items for further development of learning engineering profession and practices.