Learning Engineering Spotlight (Oct. 27-31): Your Weekly Dive into LE Research & Practice

Introducing the "Learning Engineering Workshop-in-a-Box"

In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, learning engineering stands out as a transformative approach, integrating data, human-centered design, and collaborative team roles to improve learning experiences. Whether you’re an educator, instructional designer, or ed-tech specialist, understanding learning engineering could significantly impact your practice. That’s why we’re excited to introduce the “Learning Engineering Workshop-in-a-Box,” a ready-to-go toolkit that guides participants through the essentials of learning engineering.

Workshop Highlights

This workshop is designed to immerse participants in the fundamentals of learning engineering, including:

• Defining Learning Engineering: Understand the core principles and differentiate learning engineering from other educational models.
• The Learning Engineering Process: Dive into stages like data collection, iterative design, and feedback loops to create effective learning solutions.
• Human-Centered Approach: Learn how to incorporate ethics, equity, and human needs, ensuring that learning interventions respect the diversity of all learners.
• Team-Based Roles: Experience firsthand how roles like instructional designers, subject matter experts, data analysts, and accessibility specialists collaborate to develop innovative learning solutions.

Hands-On Experience

The workshop includes interactive activities that encourage participants to take on specific roles in a learning engineering team. Using real-world scenarios, participants brainstorm and design solutions to common educational challenges, such as increasing online engagement, developing personalized learning paths, and creating scalable assessments.

By the end of the workshop, participants will have the tools to:

1. Describe and apply learning engineering principles.
2. Collaborate across disciplines to craft data-informed educational interventions.
3. Approach learning challenges with a human-centered, ethical mindset.

Ready to Get Started?

The workshop sample provided (below) serves as a practical introduction to learning engineering, empowering educators and specialists to rethink how we design learning for today’s diverse needs.

This first resource contains suggested slides for a sample "Introduction to Learning Engineering" (Intro to LE) WIB. If you were to run a WIB on learning engineering at your institution, you could curate the following slide deck to accomplish that task.

Intro to LE WIB: Suggested Slides

This second resource contains suggested activities to run during the above-mentioned WIB on learning engineering. After each "Unit" of the workshop (see slide deck), you're encouraged to deliver an activity to have the participants engage with the concepts.

Intro to LE WIB: Suggested Activities

This third resource contains a planning template that you can use to organize information related to the WIB. Note the sample workshop 'lesson plan' at the end of the document to give you an idea of how the Intro to LE WIB was organized.

Intro to LE WIB: Suggested Planning Template

Also...

If you're a newcomer to the field of learning engineering or looking for some pre-reads to share with participants prior to running a workshop, please review the resources linked below to provide some helpful context:

• 2 minutes - What is Learning Engineering?
• 5 minutes - 7 things you should know about Learning Engineering
• 20 minutes - Learning Engineering at a Glance
• 20 minutes -? Learning Engineering Toolkit: Introduction

Acknowledgements: A special thanks to Jim Goodell , Aaron Kessler , Sae Schatz , Jodi Lis , Emily Morasco, and Rob Nyland, Ph.D. for pulling these resources together and sharing them openly...and to the ICICLE Higher Ed. MIG (and the entire ICICLE community) for its support along the way.

*This newsletter was generated with the help of ChatGPT 4o (Oct 29 version).