The Learning Engineering ToolKit

Learning Engineering

Learning engineering is as a process and practice that applies the learning sciences using engineering design methodologies and data-informed decision-making to support learners and learning.

The ToolKit

The Learning Engineering Toolkit is envisioned as a set of practical tools and resources to help professionals (engineers and non-engineers) apply learning engineering principles to their work.

The ICICLE Learning Engineering Competencies, Curriculum, and Credentials special interest group is one place to join the conversation about what tools can advance the field.

Join our Kickstarter Campaign to support our first project, seed future tools, and be among the first to get the learning sciences game cards that will be informed by input from participants at the IEEE ICICLE Learning Engineering Conference and follow-on community discussions.

Launching with a simple tool

Professionals engaged in learning engineering must draw on key findings from the learning sciences. It is valuable for everyone developing learning experiences and conditions for great learning be familiar with some key truths about how people learn.

So the first tool to be "forged" for the toolkit is a simple set of game-based learning cards centered on key learning sciences findings that can be applied through learning engineering. A prototype of the cards was "play tested" at the first IEEE ICICLE Conference on Learning Engineering.

ToolKit Handbook

Also under development is a handbook for learning engineering. It is a practical "field guide" rather than an academic text. It will include:

    1. knowledge tools—key concepts and conceptual models that can be applied in the practice of learning engineering, and
    2. process tools—models and methodologies developed by the learning sciences and engineering/design communities that have direct application for learning engineering.

...We envision future projects to develop other practical tools such as

  • templates,
  • design patterns,
  • online training resource, and
  • a mobile app with process tools to facilitate learning engineering practices.

Let us know what "tool sets" you think would be most valuable.