The Tools Competition is pleased to announce the three winners selected from 482 submissions in the Dataset Prize!
As AI becomes central to education, the lack of open, representative datasets is a critical barrier to advancing effective tools and technology-driven solutions. The Dataset Prize was created to support the release of high-quality, open datasets that reflect a diversity of learners and learning contexts. By investing in public data infrastructure, the prize aims to make educational research and development more equitable, transparent, and impactful.
Winning tools in this prize help fill important gaps in education by adding new and diverse voices to the available datasets. By capturing real-world learner interactions across varied contexts, they offer new opportunities to improve research, inform adaptive technologies, and drive more inclusive innovation across the field. Winners of the Dataset Prize were awarded $50,000 to develop and release their datasets.
Winners of the Dataset Prize
- Learner Profile for Personalized Learning | Factors Education Inc. | Canada
By capturing authentic, longitudinal LLM interactions from diverse student populations, Factors Education aims to understand how AI can effectively model individual student characteristics to enable the development of more equitable and effective adaptive learning systems.
- The BLAST Children Bilingual Speech Dataset | LangInnov Inc. | USA
BLAST is a game-based bilingual literacy assessment platform that uncovers students’ strengths, tracks their growth, and equips school and district leaders with the data needed to make informed decisions. BLAST is developing a corpus of oral assessment responses from bilingual and multilingual children that aims to support sociolinguistic and educational research.
- Understanding Search Behavior in Offline Contexts with Kolibri | Learning Equality | USA
Learning Equality’s flagship platform, Kolibri, is an open-source suite that supports personalized, student-centered learning in low-resource settings, offering a flexible and scalable solution for educators and learners. This dataset will capture real-world interactions from Kolibri users, providing valuable insights for developing AI tools that improve offline content discovery.
Learn more about the winners in all tracks here.
The Tools Competition is open to teams with tools at all stages of development and is run over three phases with support for teams to refine their ideas. Winners were selected from 15 finalists.
To date, the Tools Competition has named 150 winners from 48 countries over five cycles, who are currently reaching nearly 50 million learners and educators.
The Tools Competition is a program of Renaissance Philanthropy, organized by The Learning Agency, and made possible through the generous support of the Walton Family Foundation, Griffin Catalyst, Axim Collaborative, Oak Foundation, and Calbright College.
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