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Correlational research is a type of research that helps companies examine relationships between their products' usage and learning outcomes, engagement levels, and other user experiences.
Educators and students are the source of truth on the classroom experience, and they hold invaluable knowledge as the end users of many edtech products. Leanlab Education’s research taps into their expertise by bringing together innovative educators and school districts to collaborate with edtech companies seeking to solve real problems in education.
In an environment where top-down federal regulation demanding rigorous evidence of edtech is unlikely, we must work to leverage market forces for good. To do so, we need to work to find the middle ground between solution providers' natural go-to-market inclinations and revenue obligations and R&D; where do those two intersect? School Systems and Educators.
Usability testing is a type of product research that helps companies establish a better understanding of the mindset and experiences of people interacting with their product.
Edtech companies like Speak Agent are using research to codesign and evaluate their products with the input of educators, students, and parents at every stage of development.
What makes a school system “research ready?” What resources can be provided for them to become research ready? How can you purposefully design research studies with the constraints of schools at the forefront?
Despite the dire reports, we’re optimistic that 2023 is full of potential for radical transformation. We have been paying close attention to the dynamics of research in the edtech ecosystem and how it will impact education in the coming months and years.
Formative and summative research are used to evaluate product design. However, which of these two evaluations you conduct will depend on where you are in the design process.
The goal of an implementation pilot is to establish concrete guidelines for how an edtech tool should be used by educators and learners in an authentic context that creates and sustains long-term, quality engagement with the tool.
Despite the headlines, a few new studies suggest that staff shortages may not be our biggest barrier as students return to school this fall. Instead, the rate of learning recovery post pandemic is threatening to perpetuate persistent (and potentially widened) inequities among students along lines of race and class.
We’re learned a lot over the years conducting edtech research in authentic learning environments. Here are 12 lessons that changed the way we do research at Leanlab.
It is our time. It is our season to create our own narrative. It is time for us to define ourselves— we are more than mere babysitters; we're more than mere catalysts. We are what we are. And we are people for the next generation.
While innovation, technology, the state school safety, and larger-scale policy reform may feel disconnected, we must reckon with the reality of how we’ve reemerged from the pandemic.
We’re excited to launch a new Codesign Product Certification verifies that qualifying, education-technology companies iterate their products based on authentic, school-community recommendations and feedback from Leanlab's codesign research process.
In interviews with over 240 teachers we found they’re are grappling with the social-emotional health of their students but are also finding success engaging with their students in-person to help them build these skills.
Leanlab surveyed over 240 teachers in their report titled Tell Us How You Really Feel: A Survey of Teacher Sentiment in order to better understand the main challenges and successes teachers are facing almost two years into the pandemic.
The best founders are embracing the idea that edtech should augment the good work schools are doing. They understand that to produce outsized results for school communities, they need to develop products in partnership with school communities.
While private schools saw limited interruptions, some stable, public school districts have used the catalyst of the Covid-19 pandemic to progress personalized learning initiatives and implement more experimental curricula. However, increasingly more public schools are struggling with bare necessities—extreme shortages of bus drivers, food service delivery, and substitute teachers. These operational obstacles are now bleeding over to disrupt instruction.
Why not approach the learning process as a lifelong adventure? We should be passionate about what we choose to do in life and acknowledge that passion has no timeline.
We believe that any successful venture in education must contribute to the ultimate outcome of empowering learners to navigate and respond to the needs of an uncertain future.
This moment in time as a huge opportunity to change the way education is done and to leverage education at technology to propel student outcomes.
How can aspiring entrepreneurs strike while the iron is hot and secure funding for their ideas? What helps an entrepreneur’s idea stand out amongst the crowd?
The journey in creating and scaling companies for these EdTech founders is far from easy, however. There are myriad challenges staring at you as you begin creating a company in the EdTech industry.
