The missing craft: “Learning Engineering”

There was a terrific article in the New York Times recently by Anna North. It starts out describing persistent myths about “learning styles” in instruction, and it picks up steam when it generalizes to explore why learning research is not having an impact on students.  Although she never uses the term, the article makes it clear we suffer because we have almost no “learning engineering” professionals in our industry – and don’t realize what we’re missing.