Learning Engineering Commons

The field, traced to its sources

Learning engineering is scattered across conferences, standards bodies, and grey literature. This is where it's linked together — topic by topic, claim by claim.

Why this exists

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Practitioners define the field differently depending on where they found it.

A conference talk. A standards committee. A blog post. The vocabulary doesn't converge. A claim made in one venue rarely gets traced back to its evidence, and the evidence rarely links forward to where it's actually used.

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So every topic here links to what backs it up.

Seed papers. Expansion literature pulled from the wider citation graph. And the non-paper resources — programs, people, conferences, tools, organizations — that make the claim operational, not just cited.

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Curated, then filtered, then verified.

Corpus filters, cross-seed scoring, and human review keep the noise out. What's here is meant to hold up when someone checks it.

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This is a reference, not a pitch.

No claim without a source. No resource without a link back to where it came from. When ICICLE and this site differ on a definition, ICICLE wins.

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people, programs & institutions

Tracked across the field — practitioners, degree programs, standards bodies, and the organizations that convene them.

Programs & people registry · updated continuously
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resources indexed

Papers, tools, talks, and frameworks spanning practice, the reading list, events, and tools — plus the community roster.

Practice + tools + reading list + events + community
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topics, three layers

From foundational learning science through practice methods to the high-consequence domains the field operates in.

Foundation → Practice → Context

One shared record beats a hundred private ones.

Browse by topic or search across the whole corpus. Developed in collaboration with IEEE ICICLE by LENS faculty at Johns Hopkins.