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Stephen Downes

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This document (48 page PDF) is undated but recent; I found it referenced in an otherwise unhelpful article in The 74. The topic of 'learning engineering' isn't popular among educators or learning designers, but there's a school of thinking which touts this as the way forward. This paper identifies ten 'opportunity' areas in post-pandemic learning engineering, but the topics are unremarkable, including such things as "enhance human-computer systems" and "support learning 21st century skills and collaboration". Some of the more specific suggestions actually are interesting, though I would hardly see them as being characteristic of learning engineering. Things like "methods for knowledge graph discovery" and "collect more complete data on learner identity" are interesting to me, for example. What readers will notice most of all is the lack of a systemic approach. We get a bunch of topics without any deep discussion about what educators are trying to do or what would count as success.

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