Within SEERNet, we believe that practitioners need to play a central role in the research process, echoing the National Academies call that “research needs to begin in the field.” Since…
Representatives from the teams at UpGrade and eTrials presented at the 2022 Conference on Digital Experimentation at MIT (CoDE@MIT). One key insight from the UpGrade team was that there is…
Key Points In three related keynote addresses at the EmpoweringLearners.AI conference, speakers argued that engineering successful learning technologies at scale requires integrating many kinds of student and contextual variables. AI…
One of our team members attended a small elementary school with, as she describes it, three classroom wings, a library, a main office, and a multipurpose room. The library (you…
When the RFA to bring researchers into SEERNet was published on October 20th, the SEERNet team noticed that in many respects, this RFA follows precedent in other IES RFAs. For…
Bringing together data science with improvement science provides a powerful opportunity for creating positive change in education. Both fields have grown rapidly in the past decade, but in education, the…
A focus on equity ensures that research is not conducted “simply for the sake of science.” That’s why SEERNet welcomes IES’s addition of an equity statement to the SEER principles.…
Introduction SEERNet includes 5 digital learning platforms (DLPs) that connect researchers to millions of teachers and learners across US K-12 schools and post-secondary institutions. Each DLP has their own unique…
The digital learning platform (DLP) partners in SEERNet are working to provide platforms that any researcher can use to do experiments. In this post, the Carnegie Learning/UpGrade team reflects on…
This project is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305N210034 to Digital Promise. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.