Hi all,
A new report has been released by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology. The report is titled “"Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World."
The authors of the report are actively seeking review and input from the field, and have invited readers to respond to these questions:
· Does the report resonate with your view of the emerging digital landscape and the data?
· Do you have examples of evidence gathering methods that use emerging data?
· Are the recommendations the right ones for enabling progress
· Other thoughts and ideas on the topics of data, evidence and digital learning
Readers can Download the report at no cost, and also Provide feedback on the report
The report was developed under the guidance of Karen Cator and Bernadette Adams of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology.
About the Evidence Framework
New learning technologies hold great promise for supporting student learning with well-designed and research-based adaptive, interactive, accessible and personalized environments. These new environments generate large amounts of data that may help educators understand more about student growth, make more informed decisions, and improve learning opportunities overall for individuals, groups, and the education system as a whole.
The Framework aims to help:
· District and school leaders decide which products or approaches to invest in
· Teachers support every student’s learning
· Learning-technology developers benefit more easily from learning sciences research
· Learning-technology researchers gain exposure to new research methods and faster time-cycles for research
· Learning-technology R&D funders determine appropriate criteria for their funding programs’ stages