- January 2025 Newsletter
ICICLE January 2025 Community Call: Learning Engineering Practices and Tools with Aaron Kessler, MIT and Shelly Blake-Plock, Yet Analytics
Happy 2025! The ICICLE monthly community call is January 15th at 12pm ET. ICICLEists, Aaron Kessler, Design SIG co-chair and Associate Director, Learning Sciences and Teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Shelly Blake-Plock, former chair of ICICLE and Co-Founder, CEO at Yet Analytics, will share tools and practices on the design and implementation of learning engineering. The Learning Engineering Toolkit has several chapters describing tools in the learning engineering process. Practices and methods are being developed as the learning engineering field matures and will continue to evolve. Join the conversation and share your experiences on what tools and practices that you use in implementing learning engineering and what you envision in the future.
We’ll be meeting via Webex for the community call. (See details below with meeting code and password.) It is scheduled for one hour’s length. Full agenda will be posted here.
Learning Engineering Practices, Tools and ApproachesA few examples of approaches, methods and tools for the application and integration of the learning engineering process:
- Learning Engineering Maturity model
- For appraising an organization’s or enterprise’s maturity in adoption of learning engineering practices, review the criteria in the Generalizable Learning Engineering Adoption Maturity Model.
- Challenge
- Example approaches to determine the challenge and do a needs assessment include Five Whys, Cause and Affect (Fishbone) Analysis, Performance Task Analysis
- Teams
- ICICLE 2024 Conference Learning Engineering is a Team Sport Presentation and Activity on establishing a Learning Engineering Team
- Teaming up to Improve Medical/Healthcare Education: Instructional Design & Learning Engineering, Dina Kurzweil and Karen E. (Beth) Marcellas
- Human Centered Design
- “Applying Human-Centered Engineering Methods to Learning” a Silver Lining for Learning podcast episode, with Janet Kolodner, Jim Goodell, and Sae Schatz
- IDEO Design Thinking Process
- Learning Sciences
- Learning Engineering is Informed by the Learning Sciences presentation, ICICLE 2022 Conference and activity and resource on pages 10-13, ICICLE 2022 Conference Workbook
- Learning Design
- Learning Design Principles: A Toolkit for Design for Evidence-Based Principles, edited by Kathleen McEldoon
- Implementation
- Tracking Decisions
- Learning Engineering Evidence Decision Tracker template and materials, ICICLE 2024 conference
- “Why did we do that?” A Systematic Approach to Tracking Decisions in the Design and Iteration of Learning Experiences, Lauren Totino and Aaron Kessler
- Data
- Data Use and Application throughout the Learning Engineering Process graphic outlines the questions to ask about the collection and application of data
- Technology Standards
- ICICLE 2024 Lightning Talk on the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) on technology standards
- Developing a Learning Engineering Case Guide: Learning Engineering Case Guide 1.0
These approaches and other learning engineering materials are found on the ICICLE’s website Resources page.
Special and Market Interest Group Work
Special Interest Groups and Market Interest Groups is where much of the work in ICICLE happens. The groups develop resources and document experiences for the learning engineering community. Participate in one, two or all of them.
Please check SIG/MIG page for general information, the calendar for meeting days/times and the website for updates. (Times are in Eastern Time.)- Competencies, Credentials and Curriculum SIG is meeting on Friday, January 31, 2025 at 3pm ET.
- Design SIG is meeting on Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 at 2pm ET.
- Government / Military MIG is meeting on Friday, February 7th at 12pm ET.
- Higher Ed MIG is meeting on Tuesday, February 4th at 12pm ET.
- Global/Localisation SIG is meeting on Friday, February 7th, 2025 at 9am ET.
- pK-12 MIG is meeting on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 at 12pm ET.
- Students and Grads SIG is meeting on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 at 4pm ET.
- Tools SIG is meeting on Thursday, January 30th, 2025 at 2pm ET.
- Workforce MIG (formerly Corporate MIG) is meeting on Friday, January 31, 2025 at 12pm ET.
- Learning Engineering Maturity model
