Learning Engineering Toolkit

CHAPTER 5 Learning Engineering Uses Data (Part 1): Instrumentation

by Erin Czerwinski, Jim Goodell, Steve Ritter, Robert Sottilare, Khanh-Phuong Thai, and Daniel Jacobs

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.

Data-informed decision-making is an essential and integral part of learning engineering. Without it, you may be doing learning design, but you are not doing learning engineering. Data-informed decision-making has two parts, instrumentation and analytics.

• ► Instrumentation is the part of the learning engineering process responsible for designing, developing, and ...