Background
The Job of A College President Herb Simon, 1967
The Need For Learning Engineers (and Learning Engineering) Bill Jerome, April 2013
Why We Need Learning Engineers Bror Saxburg, April 2015
Online Education: A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms MIT, April 2016
Bridging learning research and teaching practice for the public good: The learning engineer Candace Thille, November 2016
Publications
2020
Proceedings of the 2019 ICICLE conference
The document features the work of conference participants and will highlight the work accomplished by the SIGs. Just as the conference was designed as a conversation as opposed to a traditional reading-of-papers, the Proceedings will exist as an artifact produced out of the conference and will provide a baseline against which future development in the profession and academic discipline of Learning Engineering may gauge growth.
Learning Engineering: Improving Organizational Learning With Artificial Intelligence, Training Industry, July 24, 2020
2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Teaching and Learning Edition
In the 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Teaching and Learning Edition the “Elevation of Instructional Design, Learning Engineering, and UX Design in Pedagogy in Practice” is one of the six Emerging Technologies and Practices.
The Science of Remote Learning edited by Jim Goodell and Aaron Kessler
How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education Jeff Young
Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve Ashok Goel
Teaming up to Improve Medical/Healthcare Education: Instructional Design & Learning Engineering in the Journal of Applied Instructional Design Dina Kurzweil and Karen (Beth) Marcellas
Medical Researchers Find Cures by Conducting Many Studies and Failing Fast. We Need to Do the Same for Education Mark Schneider and Kumar Garg
2019
Are You Doing Learning Engineering—Or Instructional Design? Jim Goddell
What Does Learning Engineering Mean for Instructional Design and EdTech? Ellen Wagner
Learning Engineering? Instructional Design? Jane Bozwarth
Learning Engineering: Making Education More “Professional” Ellen Wagner
2018
Learning Engineering and the Future of eLearning Ellen Wagner and Olivia Blackmon
7 Things to Know about Learning Engineering Ellen Wagner, Shelly Blake-Plock, Robby Robson, Avron Barr
Learning Engineering: The Next Wave for eLearning Ellen Wagner and Olivia Blackmon
Learning Engineers Inch Toward the Spotlight Mark Lieberman
The Rise of Learning Engineering Ellen Wagner and Jodi Lis
All Rise the Learning Engineers (podcast) Aaron Barr, Robby Robson
Get Ready for Learning Engineering Clark Quinn
The Rise of Learning Engineering Ellen Wagner
ICICLE: A Consortium for Learning Engineering Shelly Blake-Plock
Learning Engineering: Merging Science and Data to Design Powerful Learning Shelly Blake-Plock
Job Descriptions
A list of Learning Engineering Job Descriptions is here.
Communities
OpenSimon is a learning engineering community at the Simon Initiative, Carnegie Mellon University to improve learning outcomes and advance understanding of human learning
Learning Agency launched a Learning Engineering Google Group. A newsletter, Learning Engineering Quarterly, published by University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning is designed to complement the Google Group.
The Playful Journey Lab, together with the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili), has started their Learning Engineering Journey to explore the practice of learning engineering in the Learning Engineering Project Blueprint