ICICLE Update and October 2025 Community Call with Jeanne Century, Senior Research Fellow, University of Chicago about “The Case for Component-Based Research: A New Paradigm for Education Research”
The ICICLE monthly community call is October 15th at 12pm ET. We’re excited to have Jeanne Century join the call to talk about “The Case for Component-Based Research: A New Paradigm for Education Research.” Jeanne is the founder of Outlier Research & Evaluation at the University of Chicago, was a Research Associate Professor at the University for 20 years, and currently is a Senior Research Fellow at the University’s Data Science Institute. She will be speaking on how component-based research could be applied as a methodology to support learning engineering.
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.
Get ready for the upcoming Invitation to Learning Engineering webinar,
“Advancing Workforce Learning through Learning Engineering.”
It will be held on Thursday, October 23rd at 1 pm ET/10 am PT. The session will be led by ICICLE Workforce Market Interest Group co-chairs, DJ Jaeger and John Costa. Register for the webinar and discover how learning engineering supports workforce transformation through data-informed design, system-level thinking, and evidence-based practices that link learning to performance outcomes.
Information and links to the Invitation to Learning Engineering webinar series are on our website. Register for Advancing Workforce Learning through Learning Engineering today!
Applying Learning Engineering Principles
In Learning Engineering: Collaboration, Context and Challenge, Matt Cornock summarises the panel discussion on Learning Engineering at the Online Learning Summit 2025 at the University of Leeds.
The paper, Designing for Transfer: Developing a Skill-Based Simulation Using Learning Engineering Design Frameworks, written by Jessica M. Johnson, Austin Connolly, John Shull and Hector Garcia presents a use case in which a skill-based simulation game was developed for novice, pre-hire pipefitters using a learning engineering framework grounded in cognitive task analysis and game design methodologies.
Abstracts for the Tools Competition ends October 15th. This year’s competition emphasizes responsible innovation and development, advanced AI methods and release of shared public assets such as training data, evaluation tools, or open models.
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 in Tuesday, October 21st at 12pm ET .
- Design SIG is meeting on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 at 2pm ET.
- Government / Military MIG is meeting on Friday, November 7th at 12pm ET.
- Higher Ed MIG is meeting on Tuesday, November 4th at 12pm ET.
- Global/Localisation SIG is on Friday, November 7th at 9am ET.
- pK-12 MIG is meeting on Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 at 12pm ET.
- Students and Grads SIG is meeting on Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 at 4pm ET.
- Tools SIG is meeting on Thursday, October 30th, 2025 at 2pm ET.
- Workforce MIG (formerly Corporate MIG) is meeting on Friday, October 31st, 2025 at 12pm ET.
We look forward to seeing you at our October 15th community call with Jeanne Century speaking about “The Case for Component-Based Research: A New Paradigm for Education Research,” in the ICICLE LinkedIn group, or on the Discord community.