Awarding $3+ million to edtech innovation for learning and research

Phase I results released on Nov. 22nd.

The Learning Engineering Tools Competition is a multi-million dollar competition for edtech innovation that leverages digital technology, big data, and learning science to meet the urgent needs of learners worldwide.

Timeline

The 2025 timeline will be announced in September 2024. Sign up for updates.

Objectives

Catalyze learning
outcomes

We support cutting edge solutions for the most pressing challenges facing learners worldwide.

Advance learning
science research

We build capacity for edtech to leverage big data to support a better understanding of learning at scale.

Develop all innovators

We welcome individuals and teams at all phases of development—from early ideas to established platforms.

Build the Learning Engineering community

We cultivate a strong network, driving collaboration between edtech, researchers, and educators.

How to participate

1. Find Your Opportunity

The Tools Competition is designed to be inclusive of diverse ideas at all phases of development. We encourage participation from edtech innovators, researchers, students, and educators alike.

Enhancing Post-Secondary Learning Track

Tools that expand access to quality post-secondary learning and broaden connections to career success.

Accelerating K-12 Learning Track

Tools that assess and accelerate K-12 learning outcomes and support K-12 teachers to enhance their instructional practice in order to prepare students for college and careers.

Dataset Prize

For teams that will prepare and release datasets that can make innovation and research related to education less expensive and more inclusive.

2. Select Your Prize Level

For competitors submitting to a Track Opportunity, select a prize level corresponding to your phase of development.

Catalyst Prizes ($50k)

for early stage tools

Growth Prizes ($150k)

for products with some users and scale

Transform Prizes ($300k)

for established platforms with
10,000 or more users

What is a Tool?

The Tools Competition funds edtech tools and technologies that support learning outcomes and can contribute to learning science research.

Eligible tools have the potential to generate novel learning data that researchers can study to better understand learning at scale. This may include an app, software, dataset, algorithm, or other digital technology that facilitates or supports continuous data collection and has the potential to scale at minimal cost.

Please note that this definition is not exhaustive. As technology continues to develop and innovations are created globally, other tool concepts may also be competitive.

Explore winning tools from previous years to get a sense of compelling proposals.

To date, the Tools Competition:

Awarded

$ 0

million

Named

0
winners across
44 countries

Is projected to impact

0 +
million learners

learners

Why Learning Engineering? 

The Tools Competition meets an urgent need to leverage cutting edge digital technology and data to support learning science research at scale.

Underpinning the Tools Competition is the growing field of learning engineering, which brings together edtech, researchers, and educators to leverage big data to:

Edtech has an important role to play in contributing to research at scale. Tools generate rich data that can allow researchers to run studies and better understand the learning process.

All participants will need to detail how their tool contributes to learning engineering.

Learn from Previous
Winners

Phase I of the 2025 Tools Competition is now closed. Results will be released on Nov. 22.