Just Announced! 50 Winners Awarded Over $8 Million for Edtech Innovation in Learning & Research
The 2025 competition cycle will launch in September 2024.
The Learning Engineering Tools Competition is a multi-million dollar funding opportunity for edtech innovation that leverages digital technology, big data, and learning science to meet the urgent needs of learners worldwide.
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.
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Tools Competition Launch
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Deadline for Phase I
Abstracts -
Select Participants
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Deadline for Phase II
Proposals -
Finalists Invited to
Phase III Pitches -
Phase III Pitches
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Winners
Announced -
Winner
Impact Study
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 . Pick a Track
Tracks for the 2025 competition cycle of the Tools Competition will be announced in September 2024.
2. Find Your Award Level
The Tools Competition is designed to be inclusive of all great ideas, with award levels to match participants’ phase of development. We encourage participation from researchers, edtech innovators, students, and educators alike.
Catalyst Awards ($50k)
for early stage ideas or products
Growth Awards ($150k)
for products with some users and scale
Transform Awards ($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, 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.
Not sure your tool is eligible? Explore winning tools from previous years or get in touch.
To date, the Tools Competition:
Awarded
million
Named
Is projected to impact
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:
- Expand what we know about learning—what works, for whom, and under what conditions.
- Catalyze a cycle of continuous improvement to develop more effective interventions and drive evidence-based product innovation.
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
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