ICICLE
International Consortium for Innovation and Collaboration in Learning Engineering

June 2024 Newsletter

ICICLE June 20th 2024 Community Call: Amy Parent, Director of Learning Ecosystem and Strategy, Salience Learning

The ICICLE monthly community call has been moved to Thursday, June 20th at 12pm ET due to a national holiday on June 19th in the US. We are thrilled that Amy Parent, Director of Learning Ecosystem and Strategy, Salience Learning, will be talking about telling story of learning impact.

Amy will be talking about what makes measuring learning so hard and provide an overview of a process on how to tell story of learning impact. She’ll outline types of exercises to help people get to a data-informed strategy. It will includes ideas such as how to consider learning’s return on investment, types of models to define impact measurement, and how to plan the story to show if learning is worth the investment. 

Amy is also a long-time participant and contributor to the xAPI cohort. Listen to her presentation, How to Build an L&D Team that Supports xAPI to the Fall 2022 xAPI Cohort.

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.

The ICICLE 2024 Learning Engineering Conference, co-hosted with ASU Learning Engineering Institute, is taking place July 22nd-24th at the Omni Tempe Hotel at ASU in Tempe, Arizona. The theme of the conference is “Solving for Complexity at Scale,” focusing on solving the implicit complexity of learning challenges at different scales, from the individual tutor to massive open online courses and everything in between.

Register today! Conference rate is $550. Groups with twelve or more people get a discounted rate of $300 per registration. Students are $175.

Keynote speaker is Punya Mishra, Director of Innovative Learning Futures at the Learning Engineering Institute (LEI) and Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (MLFTC) at Arizona State University.

Book your hotel room at Omni Tempe Hotel at ASU at discounted conference rate of $109. 

We have lots of exciting and engaging sessions planned at the conference across sectors and domains:

  • Sessions that discuss how to work as a learning engineering team
    • Teams, Learners, Context: A Large-Scale, High-Complexity Creation Process 
    • Development of Team Dynamic Measurement Framework Using Learning Engineering Methodology 
    • Learning Engineering is a Team Sport: Collaborative Explorations for Team Building Strategies with Short Scenarios in Various Contexts
  • Sessions about Assessing Learning
    • Questioning the Questions: Are We Measuring What Matters in the Quality of our Assessment Items? 
    • Lights on the Dashboard: Learner Data as an Early Warning 
    • Matching Competency-based Learning Assets: What Makes a Good Match?
  • Sessions on Upskilling, Education and Training in Learning Engineering 
    • Adapting a Learning Engineering Workshop-in-a-Box to Enact Organizational Change
    • What Does It Mean to Be a Novice Learning Engineer?
    • The Collective Curriculum: Building a Learning Engineering Course Framework

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 and the calendar and website for updates to meeting days/times. (Times are in Eastern Time.)

The conference is a month ago. Register today! Follow our LinkedIn group and join our Discord community to stay updated and participate in conversations about conference.