Technical Instruction & Engineering Education

Hub for teaching engineers — designing, delivering, assessing, and measuring technical training and engineering education. Routes to 10 spokes.

Owned topics: course, curriculum, and learning-path design using instructional-design frameworks (ADDIE, SAM, Dick and Carey, Gagné’s Nine Events, Understanding by Design/UbD; writing measurable learning objectives; scope-and-sequence mapping); certification and credential design (job-task analysis, item writing, Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory psychometrics, standard-setting for cut scores, ISO 17024 accreditation, NCCA, Open Badges 3.0); hands-on labs and participatory live coding (DevRel and customer academy patterns); teaching troubleshooting and diagnostic reasoning (cognitive apprenticeship, productive failure, illness scripts from medical education, deliberate practice); the MongoDB University and certification program as a specific case; training measurement and ROI (Kirkpatrick four levels, Phillips ROI Methodology, xAPI/SCORM/cmi5 learning data standards, learning transfer research); GenAI in education (AI-assisted instructional design, LLM tutors and intelligent tutoring systems, AI-resistant assessment design); expert-knowledge elicitation methods (Critical Decision Method, Applied Cognitive Task Analysis, PARI, Goal-Directed Task Analysis); skills taxonomies and competency frameworks (O*NET, ESCO, SFIA, competency-based education/CBE, competency-based training/CBT); the “is-training-the-right-fix” analysis using Human Performance Technology (Gilbert’s Behavior Engineering Model, Electronic Performance Support Systems, job aids).

Route learning science (cognitive load, retrieval practice, spacing) to applied-psychology; single tutorial writing to technical-writing-craft.