As edtech products continue to flood the education space, it has become increasingly difficult for educators to distinguish those with strong potential to deliver improved student learning from the slick marketing pitches that seem to offer more hype than substance.
Not exact matches
Carr mentioned Nesta's experimental testing and UCL Institute of Education's EDUCATE project
as two encouraging initiatives to help start - ups and SMEs prove the efficacy of
EdTech products.
EDUCATE aims to translate research into new and better educational
products, stimulating demand for new
EdTech products by improving the quality of
products and services and engaging with users
as part of the design process.
Most importantly, by moving instructors away from being consumers of
products to critical users and appropriators of digital tools, they will also be able to exercise greater agency
as influencers in the
edTech marketplace.
Schools that partner with LEAP receive professional development support
as they build and pilot a personalized learning model to fit their school context, including the integration of an
edtech product vetted by a national panel of experts, and then scale key learnings to other classrooms and schools within their network.
As of the 2016 - 17 school year, 79 percent of LEAP pilot school teams adopted their
edtech product after pilots ended.