ICICLE February 2025 Community Call: Quality Matters with Deb Adair, CEO
The ICICLE monthly community call is February 19th at 12pm ET. We are excited that Deb Adair, CEO, Quality Matters will be joining the call. Quality Matters is global organization leading quality assurance in online and innovative digital teaching and learning environments. Its quality assurance system is used by over 1,600 institutions across K-12, higher education and professional/corporate training in all 50 U.S states and 35+ countries. Deb will be sharing and discussing with the community how quality improvement and quality assurance is applied in learning environments, challenges and opportunities they currently see and face, and the role of quality improvement and quality assurance within the learning environment process.
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 about Learning Engineering
Leveraging Learning Engineering to Advance Authentic Learning in Virtual Reality is position paper by Kristin Torrence which proposes the application of learning engineering approaches for designing of authentic VR learning experiences and investigating best practices
For brief introductions to the learning engineering process, Quality Information Partners has produced a series of short videos (1-2 minutes each) on the components of the learning engineering process.
Learning Engineering Virtual Institute hosts monthly Learning Engineering Research Round-Up sessions.
Two technical papers focusing on AI and education with emphasis on mathematics are discussed. The next session is Tuesday, February 18 from 11am – 12pm ET. Register here.
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 not meeting in February.
- Design SIG is meeting on Tuesday, February 25th, 2025 at 2pm ET.
- Government / Military MIG is meeting on Friday, March 7th at 12pm ET.
- Higher Ed MIG is meeting on Tuesday, March 4th at 12pm ET.
- Global/Localisation SIG is not meeting in February.
- pK-12 MIG is meeting on Wednesday, March12th, 2025 at 12pm ET.
- Students and Grads SIG is meeting on Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 at 4pm ET.
- Tools SIG is meeting on Thursday, February 27th, 2025 at 2pm ET.
- Workforce MIG (formerly Corporate MIG) is meeting on Friday, February 28th, 2025 at 12pm ET.
We look forward to seeing you at our February 19th community call with Deb Adair, CEO, Quality Matters, in the ICICLE LinkedIn group, or on the Discord community.