Learning Engineering: A Caliper Example
Michael Feldstein,
eLiterate,
Jul 05, 2019
This article is ostensibly about data interoperability, but mostly it's about defining the term 'learning engineering'. "Rather than a sketch, a wireframe, or a prototype, a learning engineer makes the graph, the dashboard, or the visualization into the externalization," writes Michael Feldstein. "For Herb Simon, as for Phil Long, these design artifacts serve the same purpose. They're the same thing, basically." Just so, Caliper statements - which describe learning achievements - are depicted here as learning engineering artifacts. "The Caliper language has become the externalization that we manipulate socially in the design exercise. There are two aspects of Caliper that make this work: (1) the three-word sentences are linguistically generative, i.e., they can express new ideas that have never been expressed before, and (2) every human-readable expression directly maps to a machine-readable expression." Oh, we've heard that before.
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