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ICICLE March 15th 2023 Community Call with Danielle McNamara, Professor & Executive Director of the Learning Engineering Institute at ASU<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The ICICLE monthly community call is\u00a0March 15th at 12pm ET<\/strong>. We are thrilled to have\u00a0Danielle McNamara<\/a>, Professor in the Department of Psychology and Executive Director of the Learning Engineering Institute at\u00a0Arizona State University<\/a>, join the call.\u00a0She is an expert in the fields of cognitive and learning sciences, comprehension, writing, natural language processing (NLP), intelligent tutoring, and artificial intelligence in education. She will share with the community the vision of the Learning Engineering Institute at ASU that will focus on actionable questions, goals, and results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll be meeting via Webex<\/a> 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2023 ICICLE Learning Engineering Conference<\/strong>
Plans for the 2023 ICICLE Learning Conference July 24th-26th 2023 have begun! We’ll soon be sending out registration information and call for proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interested in organizing the 2023 ICICLE Learning Engineering Conference?
Join us in planning. Everyone is welcome. Contact Committee Chair<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Talking about Learning Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two new learning engineering initiatives: We’ll be hearing about the new Learning Engineering Institute at ASU<\/a> from Danielle McNamara in the community call. The University of Galway<\/a> has established a Learning Engineering Research Group<\/a>. They are bringing together researchers from the cognitive, social, educational, and computational sciences. The group combines industry-inspired practices with digital technologies and computing to create engaging learning experiences, understand human learning and knowledge transfer to facilitate behavioural change in a variety of contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duolingo<\/a> has long applied learning engineering processes in developing its learning experiences. Eric Basu<\/a> in his article, How Video Games Can Train You for a Job: Lessons from Learning Engineering Research and Duolingo’s Success<\/a>, describes how learning engineering research, platforms like Duolingo, and expert insights can inform the design of effective learning experiences. In H<\/a>ow Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to Learn<\/a>, the authors, Klinton Bicknell<\/a>, Claire Brust<\/a>, and Burr Settles<\/a>, explain how one of Duolingo’s systems, Birdbrain, is continuously improving the learner\u2019s experience with algorithms based on research in educational psychology, combined with recent advances in machine learning. Read about Duolingo in the Proceeding of 2019 Conference on <\/a>Learning <\/a>Engineering<\/a> in What We Discovered at the Roots of Learning Engineering<\/a> (page 10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Learning Engineering: #WorkingOutLoud on Learning Science<\/a>, Julian Stodd<\/a> with co-authors Sae Schaltz<\/a>, who wrote the backbone of this piece, and Geoff Stead<\/a> describes how first fostering a learning engineering mindset can begin the change to a learning engineering\u2013powered organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learning Engineering Toolkit<\/strong>
How are you applying and adapting the Learning Engineering Toolkit<\/a>? Share with the community your stories about using the toolkit and putting learning engineering into practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you did not yet have the Learning Engineering Toolkit,<\/a> get 20% off with discount code ESA22. If you are in education, you may be eligible for an inspection copy. Request it by completing the Request Inspection Copy<\/a> form with information about your university and course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Special and Market Interest Group Work<\/strong>
The Special and Market Interest Groups<\/a> develop resources and document experiences for the learning engineering community. Everyone is welcome to join one, two or all the SIGs and MIGs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please check website home page<\/a> for updates to meeting days and times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n