The purpose of the Guide is to define key knowledge areas and topics from the body of knowledge in order to:
- To promote a consistent view of learning engineering worldwide
- To position learning engineering as a multi-disciplinary process and practice, recognizing the disciplines that contribute to learning engineering, and specifying how each discipline contributes to effective learning engineering
- To provide topical access to the Learning Engineering Body of Knowledge in a way that each topic and subtopic may be uniquely identified, used in human-readable and machine-readable formats, and referenced within curriculum, credentials, job descriptions, licensing materials, assessment, and other resources used to support learning, development, and human resources sourcing of learning engineering teams.
The Guide is organized into 14 knowledge areas (KAs) followed by several appendices. Within each knowledge are knowledge topics and subtopics.