Better, Faster, Stronger: How Learning Engineering Aims to Transform Education

This work has retro roots in theories developed in the 1960s. The term "learning engineering" was coined by Herbert Simon, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who won the Nobel Prize for economics and believed that a new kind of professionalism and science-based approach should be applied to learning.

Only in the last few years have the digital platforms emerged that can measure and improve teaching at scale. Thanks to learning management systems and artificial intelligence-based tools, learning engineers can now try ideas that were once theoretical.

Meanwhile, scientists continue to advance understanding of how the human brain learns. Designing teaching to work best for learners promises to make what happens in classrooms more effective.