- June 2025 Newsletter
ICICLE Update and June 2025 Community Call with Andy Johnson, Specifications and Standards Manager for Advanced Distributed Learning and Chair, IEEE Standards Association Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) Learning Metadata Standard and xAPI Profiles Standard Working Groups
The ICICLE monthly community call is June 18th at 12pm ET. Exploring how learning technology standards can be applied to components in the learning engineering process, Andy Johnson, Specifications and Standards Manager for Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative and Vice-Chair, IEEE Standard Association Learning Technology Standards Committee, will focus on how the IEEE P2881 Learning Metadata standard will get learning activities identified, tagged, and online to describe learning experiences and ensure discoverability and context. Andy is a leader in developing learning technology standards. He is currently the Chair of IEEE P2881 Learning Metadata Working Group and Chair of IEEE P9274.2.1 xAPI Profiles Working Group, author of Total Learning Architecture Standards Digital Learning Acquisition Techniques and one of the original developers of SCORM.
We’ll be meeting via Webex. (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
The next Invitation to Learning Engineering webinar will be hosted by the Government and Military Market Interest Group on Friday, July 18th at 9am PT/Noon ET.
The Global Science of Learning Network will be examining the Science of Learning and Learning Engineering in an AI World in a webinar with Bror Saxberg, Shafika Isaacs and Melina Uncapher on Friday, June 20th at 10am PST/1pm EST/6pm GMT.
Carnegie Mellon University‘s Open Learning Initiative is holding a Learning Engineering Catalyst, a monthly forum dedicated to addressing the critical gap between contemporary research in learning sciences and practical online course design. The next forum is Tuesday, June 24th at 1pm ET.
The Online Learning Summit at University of Leeds on July 10th-11th will explore core themes and emerging areas of discussion in the online learning sector and beyond. The “Provocation: Learning Engineering as Engine of Change” on July 10th will be talking all things Learning Engineering with Jim Goodell, diving into what this is, how it complements approaches to learning design, and applying it to solve a challenge.
On June 23rd Learning Engineering: Stories from the Field Parallel Session will be held at the 7th International Conference on Adaptive Instructional Systems at HCI International 2025:
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 Friday, June 27th at 3pm ET .
- Design SIG is meeting on Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 at 2pm ET.
- Government / Military MIG is meeting Friday, July 11th at 12:00pm ET.
- Higher Ed MIG is meeting on Tuesday, July 1st at 12pm ET.
- pK-12 MIG is on hiatus until September.
- Students and Grads SIG is on hiatus until August.
- Tools SIG is meeting on Thursday, June 26th, 2025 at 2pm ET.
- Workforce MIG (formerly Corporate MIG) is meeting on Friday, June 27th, 2025 at 12pm ET.

