If you are doing instructional design (ID) you may also be doing learning engineering according to the definition from the designers, engineers, researchers, and practitioners involved in the IEEE ICICLE industry consortium on learning engineering. They defined learning engineering as follows:

Learning engineering is a process and practice that:

applies the learning sciences
uses human-centered engineering design methodologies, and
applies data-informed decision-making
to support learners and their development.

Via Marta Torán

Via Kamal Bennani

A simple strategy for increasing student agency in your classroom is to provide students with a choice board of options they can choose from to demonstrate their learning at the end of an investigation, unit, or project.

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

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• Anxiety about the effects of social media on young people has risen to such an extreme that giving children smartphones is sometimes equated to handing them a gram of cocaine. The reality is much less alarming.

 

• A close look at social media use shows that most young texters and Instagrammers are fine. Heavy use can lead to problems, but many early studies and news headlines have overstated dangers and omitted context.

 

• Researchers are now examining these diverging viewpoints, looking for nuance and developing better methods for measuring whether social media and related technologies have any meaningful impact on mental health."

Via John Evans

Of late, there’s been considerable discussion of the term learning experience design, both positive and negative. As with all such buzz phrases, it’s worthwhile examining what the promises and perils are. Ultimately, it’s about whether there’s value to be found in the concept.

Via Marta Torán

Beneath the spread of all “fake news,” misinformation, disinformation, digital falsehoods and foreign influence lies society’s failure to teach its citizenry information literacy: how to think critically about the deluge of information that confronts them in our modern digital age. Instead, society has prioritized speed over accuracy, sharing over reading, commenting over understanding. Children are taught to regurgitate what others tell them and to rely on digital assistants to curate the world rather than learn to navigate the informational landscape on their own. Schools no longer teach source triangulation, conflict arbitration, separating fact from opinion, citation chaining, conducting research or even the basic concept of verification and validation. In short, we’ve stopped teaching society how to think about information, leaving our citizenry adrift in the digital wilderness increasingly saturated with falsehoods without so much as a compass or map to help them find their way to safety. The solution is to teach the world's citizenry the basics of information literacy.

Via John Evans

Before getting too specific or complex, start with a simple search like "What is transfer?" or "Define project-based learning."

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

Distance learning programs have existed since the 1980s, but technological innovation, content scalability, and widespread mobile adoption have enabled the online degree program to be a competitive option for aspiring students.

Via EDTECH@UTRGV

"Grounded in research-based best practices in instructional and multimedia design, this book will provide a one-stop shop for instructional designers, e-learning professionals, content creators, trainers, and academics in K-12 and higher education interested in designing, creating, and integrating effective, bite-sized learning objects into their instructional units. 

Interested authors may select from the proposed chapters or propose a new chapter that can fit within the five sections of the book. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 - 8,000 words in length, including references, tables, and footnotes."

 

Contact us through the web site to indicate your interest in submitting a chapter.

Via EDTECH@UTRGV