Opportunity Kick-off: Department of Education - Digital Learning Xprize

May 12, 2021

Research Development Opportunity Kick-off events are introductions to specific funding opportunities that provide an overview of requirements, advice and lessons learned from experienced faculty, and a chance to network with other ASU faculty.

Topic: Department of Education Digital Learning XPrize

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the independent and nonpartisan statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education. Their mission is to provide scientific evidence on which to ground education practice and policy and to share this information in formats that are useful and accessible to educators, parents, policymakers, researchers, and the public.

The goals of the $1M Digital Learning Challenge are to modernize, accelerate, and improve the ways in which we identify effective learning tools and processes that improve learning outcomes.

The winning team of the Digital Learning Challenge sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) will build infrastructure to conduct rapid, reproducible experiments and demonstrate the resilience and rigor of this infrastructure in a formal learning context.

The winning team must minimally demonstrate its ability to:

Conduct a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) or Quasi Experimental Design (QED) using any meaningful and substantive educational intervention
Systematically replicate the experiment at least five times in no more than 30 days
Replicate the experiment within at least three distinct demographics

Presenters:

Neal Woodbury, Vice President of Research, Chief Science and Technology Officer and Professor, Knowledge Enterprise

Carole Basile, Dean and Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

Faye Farmer, Director, Research Development

Jessica Robins, Assistant Director, Research Advancement

Date: May 12, 2021
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm MST
Location: Online only