The Rise of Learning Engineering

September 3, 2018

It has been 50 years since Nobel laureate Herb Simon, a Carnegie Mellon University professor and expert in artificial intelligence, called for a new field of technical competence in the learning domain that he called “learning engineering.”

During the intervening 50 years, a number of professional disciplines and practices have recognized the opportunities and challenges that microprocessor-based technologies unleashed on their stakeholders, and began to address the evolving technological developments relevant to their disciplines in a variety of ways.

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