ABSTRACT

Learning Engineering for Online Education is a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of learning engineering, a form of educational optimization driven by analytics, design-based research, and fast-paced, large-scale experimentation. Chapters written by instructional design and distance learning innovators explore the theoretical context of learning engineering and provide design-based examples from top educational institutions. Concluding with an agenda for future research, this volume is essential for those interested in using data and high-quality outcome evidence to improve student engagement, instructional efficacy, and results in online and blended settings.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness Through Learning Engineering

part I|2 pages

Dimensions of Learning Engineering

chapter 3|17 pages

Tinkering Toward a Learning Utopia

Implementing Learning Engineering

chapter 4|15 pages

Learning Engineering Teams

Capabilities and Process

part II|2 pages

Cases of Practice

chapter 5|19 pages

From Artisanship to Learning Engineering

70Harvard Division of Continuing Education’s Framework for Improving Teaching and Learning

chapter 7|24 pages

Jill Watson

A Virtual Teaching Assistant for Online Education

part III|2 pages

Conclusions

chapter 11|13 pages

Learning Engineering

212Developing a Research Agenda to Bridge the Present to an Aspirational Future