The past 20 years have seen the emergence of many new tools, products, media formats, and technologies meant to support learning, education, and training. In recent years, the use of learning technology in school, on the job, and in our everyday lives has accelerated dramatically. These technologies include MOOCS; mobile learning; serious games; simulations; virtual and augmented reality; big data and learning analytics; open badges and micro-credentials; pedagogical agents (AIs); online laboratories; learning management systems; elearning authoring tools; and even Google, Siri, and Alexa.
There is a significant engineering aspect to the development and deployment of these learning technologies that is supported by a portfolio of existing and planned standards, but that has yet to coalesce as an identified field of endeavor. Learning Science research has generated many of these new technologies and explored their potential benefits. Experience and analysis by working engineers, in a wide range of operational environments, will offer additional guidance about the capabilities and limitations of the underlying technologies; how to use them to accomplish instructional goals; and how to evaluate the effectiveness of both the technologies and the various pedagogical innovations they afford.
Motivated by the need to provide this guidance, leading learning tech organizations around the world started the ICICLE project in January, 2018.
This Industry Connections (IC) Program is focused on Learning Engineering with goals to explore and deliver the following:
ICICLE seeks participants that can inform and influence:
ICICLE seeks participants to join this activity, that include but are not limited to, education and training technology vendors; textbook and eLearning media publishers; corporate HR/training departments; digital platform vendors (PC, tablet, phone, VR, AR); related industry associations; educational institutions; and government agencies. To express your interest joining, please contact:
For additional information, please visit ieeeicicle.org.