Educational Cybernetics is concerned with improving both formal educational ventures and learning conversations.

It is based on Cybernetics - the science of communication and control - but is often influenced by the more general System Sciences including the thoeries surrounding embedded systems (ecological) modeling.

It is normally approached through the form of "action research" and should be considered as part of the sphere of Second Order Cybernetics as studying education systems is of course the studying of people systems and the process of studying systems we are in  causes the systems and us  to change.