Why We Need Learning Engineers

Why We Need Learning Engineers

Bror Saxberg | April 20, 2015

Recently I wandered around the South by Southwest ed-tech conference, listening to excited chatter about how digital technology would revolutionize learning. I think valuable change is coming, but I was struck by the lack of discussion about what I see as a key problem: Almost no one who is involved in creating learning materials or large-scale educational experiences relies on the evidence from learning science.

IEEE Spectrum. October 2000. Source: http://www.qou.edu/arabic/researchProgram/eLearningResearchs/engineersTurn.pdf

<more at http://chronicle.com/article/Why-We-Need-Learning-Engineers/229391; related links: http://mfeldstein.com/learning-engineers/ (The Need For Learning Engineers (and Learning Engineering). April 14, 2015) and https://computinged.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/why-we-need-learning-engineers-the-digital-campus-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/ (Why We Need Learning Engineers and Faculty who Know Learning Sciences. May 27, 2015)>