- April 2026 Newsletter
ICICLE Update and April 2026 Community Call with Travis Falstad, CTO Mixta AI, on developing adaptive simulation training
The ICICLE monthly community call is April 15th at 12pm ET. We are looking forward to have Travis Falstad, CTO and head of product for Mixta AI, join us. Travis has designed, built and researched the efficacy of products and platforms in the simulation and training space spanning across defense, healthcare, and enterprise sectors, including training programs for the U.S. Army’s Fires Center of Excellence, the U.S. Air Force, Siemens, and UCLA Health.
Travis will be sharing experiences at Mixta AI in “Completion Is Not Competence: GENESIS and the Architecture of AI-Native Adaptive Simulation Training.” For over 2 years, Mixta has built GENESIS: an AI-powered simulation authoring and delivery platform that delivers complete conversational role play training programs from a conversational-style interaction. This includes narrative structure, adaptive AI characters, Bloom’s Taxonomy-aligned objectives, and real-time competency measurement via xAPI. This session walks through the GENESIS architecture and will demonstrate course creation, learner simulation, and a competency evidence pipeline.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.
How can learning engineering be applied to engineering education?
At these conferences, ideas were presented and discussed:
- American Association for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2025 Annual Conference & Exposition:Learning Engineering: A System Design Approach for Engineering Education
- Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2023 Conference: Crazy Idea: What If We Use Engineering to Develop and Deliver Engineering Education? Session and Presentation
- Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) 2023 Conference: Application of the Learning Engineering Process to Support Engineering Education
Get ready for the next webinar in the Invitation for Learning Engineering series
with Tools & Instrumentation SIG on May 14th, 2026
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 has a new meeting time. It will meet on second Tuesday of the month at 12 ET. The next meeting is Tuesday, April 14th, 2026 at 12 pm ET.
- Design SIG is meeting on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 2pm ET.
- Government / Military MIG is meeting on Friday, May 1st, 2026 at 12pm ET.
- Higher Ed MIG is meeting on May 5th, 2026 at 12pm ET.
- Globalisation/Localisation SIG is collaborating with pK-12 MIG in April and May. Joint meetings will be held. The two groups will meet at the Globalisation meeting time on Friday, May 1st, 2026 at 9 AM ET.
- pK-12 MIG is is collaborating with Globalisation SIG in April and May. Joint meetings will be held. The two groups will meet at the Globalisation meeting time on Friday, May 1st, 2026 at 9 AM ET.
- Students and Grads SIG is meeting on Wednesday, May 13th, 2026 at 3pm ET.
- Tools SIG is meeting on Thursday, April 30th, 2026 at 2pm ET.
- Workforce MIG (formerly Corporate MIG) is meeting on Friday, April 24th, 2026 at 12pm ET.
We look forward to seeing you at our April 15th community call with Travis Falstad, CTO and head of product for Mixta AI, in the ICICLE LinkedIn group, or on the Discord community. Our next community call is May 20th, 2026.
