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Dr. Norman Bier, Executive Director for the Simon Initiative and Director of Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, argues that not-for-profits “are in a unique position to leverage learning science, data and the affordances of technology to improve outcomes and advance our understanding of human learning”. He discusses how learning engineering can be applied to fundamentally improve our teaching practices and learning environments through good design, instructional engineering and assessment of learning outcomes hypotheses. Digital learning dashboards, representing a cognitive model associated with a specific learning objective for a course, are presented. The value of learning dashboards in providing student and instructor feedback to improve class and student-specific outcomes are discussed.