What is ICICLE?

IEEE ICICLE is a volunteer professional organization committed to the development of Learning Engineering as a profession and as an academic discipline. ICICLE is part of the IEEE Standards Association’s (IEEE-SA) Learning Technology Standards Committee. ICICLE stands for International Consortium for Innovation and Collaboration in Learning Engineering.

Monthly meetings are the third Wednesday of the month at 12pm ET. Our next meeting is November 20th 2024 at 12pm ET. Details to join the community call are here. Will Thalheimer, author of recent book, The CEO’s Guide to Training, eLearning & Work: Empowering Learning for a Competitive Advantage, and who created the learning-evaluation framework, LTEM (the Learning Transfer Evaluation Model) that many of you may be familiar with, will be our guest speaker. He will be sharing a number of ideas about learning evaluation and ask us to wrangle with them—to decide their importance and relevance to our learning-engineering work.

Check out the October 2024 Newsletter. Previous newsletters are here.

Monthly Special Interest Group (SIG)/Market Interest Group (MIG) meetings are as follows. The link for each SIG/MIG below has meeting info/link, notes, and agendas. You can also find a schedule of meetings on a calendar. The events were added in ET. Check the time for your time zone.

• Competencies, Credentials and Curriculum SIG meets on the last Friday of the month at 3pm ET. The next meeting is Friday, November 22nd at 3pm ET. Guest speaker: Vincent Villanueva, Department of the Air Force, Air Education and Training Command.
• Design SIG meets on last Tuesday of the month at 2pm ET. The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 26th at 2pm ET.
• Government / Military MIG meets the first Friday of the month at 9am ET. The next meeting is Friday, December 6th at 12pm ET.
• Higher Ed MIG meets the first Tuesday of the month at 12pm ET. The next meeting is Tuesday, December 3rd at 12pm ET.
• Global/Localisation SIG meets the first Friday of the month at 9am ET. The next meeting is Friday, December 6th at 9am ET.
• pK-12 MIG meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 12pm ET. The next meeting is Wednesday, December 11th at 12pm ET.
• Students and Grads SIG meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 4pm ET. The next meeting will be in Wednesday, December 11th at 4pm ET.
• Tools SIG meets on the last Thursday of the month at 2pm ET. There are no meetings scheduled for November and December.
• Workforce MIG (aka Corporate MIG) meets on the last Friday of the month at 12pm ET. There are no meetings scheduled for November and December.

What is Learning Engineering?

Learning Engineering is a process and practice that applies the learning sciences using human-centered design and engineering methodologies and data-informed decision making to support learners and their development.

What does ICICLE do?

Since its inception in 2017 ICICLE has evolved into a suite of opportunities for Learning Engineers to explore the range of technical, scientific, and policy matters around learning engineering as a process, practice and profession.

ICICLE holds monthly meetings (third Wednesday each month at 12:00 ET) where we engage with guest speakers who share their work in or related to learning engineering. Special Interest Groups on Design, Competencies and Curriculum, Tools, Higher Education, pK12, Graduate Students and Recent Graduates, and Corporate meet monthly to  exchange ideas to apply and implement learning engineering and develop tools. ICICLE regularly participates on learning conferences across academia, government, industry and non-profit to talk about how learning engineering process improves and enhances learning experiences.

We invite the community to learning engineering conferences. The first learning engineering conference was in 2019 with participants across sectors to discuss the trends across the field. We’ve had conferences in 2022 and 2023. The 2024 ICICLE Learning Conference will be held at Arizona State University in July 2024.

Sign up for the IEEE ICICLE mailing list to keep up with everything related to the Consortium, the International Conference on Learning Engineering, and the work being done in the ICICLE SIGs. Together, let’s define and support the profession of Learning Engineering. If you have any questions, send us an email at [email protected].