Learning Engineering Toolkit

CHAPTER 2 Learning Engineering Applies the Learning Sciences

by Jim Goodell, Janet Kolodner, and Aaron Kessler

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

In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the miracle drug penicillin. That scientific discovery had limited value to humanity until, more than a decade later, the chemical engineers at Pfizer developed a process to make penicillin available to the masses. The medical breakthrough took both scientific discovery and innovations in engineering to produce the drug at scale.

In 1967, the father of learning engineering Herb Simon ...