- July 2026 Newsletter
ICICLE Update and July 2026 Community Call with Henry Ryng, President and Founder, inXsol, on “When AI Agents Become Your Learning Engineering Team: A Health and Safety Training Case Study”
The ICICLE monthly community call is July 15th at 12pm ET. We are thrilled to have Henry Ryng, President and Founder of inXsol, speak about “When AI Agents Become Your Learning Engineering Team: A Health and Safety Training Case Study (HSTCoPilot).” HST Copilot applies learning engineering principles and IEEE Total Learning Architecture framework to embed evidence-based design into a multi-agent AI system that performs the functions of a learning engineering team, generating personalized health and safety training for disaster response workers, under human supervision. As AI ascends the hierarchy of hazard controls, it doesn’t eliminate humans. It repositions them into supervisory, judgment-intensive roles that are, if anything, more demanding than the tasks AI replaced. For background, take a look at Learning Engineering by Design: An Agentic AI Application for Rapid, Personalized Health & Safety Training in Disaster Response and Hazardous Environments.
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 with Bror Saxberg
Bror Saxberg is a leader in learning engineering. Follow his journey over the years in learning engineering through these resources and take away new ideas and applications of learning engineering.- Why We Need Learning Engineers (2015), The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Learning Engineering Making its Way in the World (2016), Getting Smart guest blog post
- Engineering Learning at Kaplan University (2016), a case study on work Bror led at Kaplan
- A Transformation to Learning Engineering, Simon Initiative 2018 Distinguished Lecture, CMU
- Learning Engineering for Online Education (2020) edited by Chris Dede, John Richards, and Bror Saxberg
- Learning Engineering: What We Know, What We Can Do, MIT’s 2023 Festival of Learning keynote
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 on hiatus. No meeting in August.
- Design SIG is meeting on Tuesday, July 28th, 2026 at 2pm ET.
- Government / Military MIG is meeting on Friday, August 7th, 2026 at 12pm ET.
- Higher Ed MIG is meeting on Tuesday, August 4th at 12pm ET.
- Globalisation/Localisation SIG is not meeting in August.
- pK-12 MIG is meeting on Wednesday, August 12th, 2026 at 12pm ET.
- Students and Grads SIG is on summer hiatus. No meeting in August.
- Tools SIG is not meeting in July.
- Workforce MIG is meeting on Friday, July 31st, 2026 at 12pm ET.
We look forward to seeing you at our July 15th community call with Henry Ryng, President and Founder of inXsol, speaking AI agents and learning engineering, in the ICICLE LinkedIn group, or on the Discord community. Our next community call is August 19th, 2026.
