The Case for Learning Engineers in Education | #LEARNingPath #LEARNing2LEARN #ModernEDU | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
So what are we missing?


We need learning engineers. By this phrase (first used, as far as I am aware, in the 1960's by Herbert Simon, the computer-scientist and Nobel-prize winning economist), we mean people who are deliberately trained and focused on designing and systematically improving learning environments at scale in measurable ways.

 

They make use of the current and new science of how learning and motivation work, and they do collect careful measurements, but the focus is on improving success and impact at scale, within constraints (economic, regulatory, practical), not research per se.

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/getting-ready-for-modern-education-first-try-to-understand-what-it-is/