With an abundance of EdTech solutions in the market, governments are unable to select suitable solutions and children struggle to learn. On the market side, product companies struggle to signal quality of their product. Tulna bridges this gap through a shared understanding of what good EdTech looks like and provides easy comparison between products to help users make informed decisions.
Tulna provides users with information to help them make decisions around EdTech.
1) It creates standards and toolkits to build a common understanding of what quality product design looks like
2) Builds government capacity to make informed decisions around EdTech adoption by leveraging the standards and toolkits
3) Publishes product evaluations that help product companies signal their quality
Tulna is built on existing global research and literature on teaching-learning principles, effective pedagogical strategies, and quality product design for different use-cases of EdTech; to build a common understanding of ‘what good looks like’. It is put into practice by a team of trained technical experts who understand how to implement and impart training on the rubrics, toolkits and evaluation materials. Tulna’s standards, toolkits and rubrics are currently proprietary, but can be leveraged free of cost, and are used by multiple stakeholders, such as governments and think tanks, today.
Tulna has seen tremendous success in the short time since its launch. Through continued efforts of the team, it has been adopted by 3 state governments in their EdTech software procurement processes. Used as a technical evaluation framework, Tulna has supported the adoption and uptake of quality personalised adaptive learning solutions and digital classrooms in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana. This procurement has impacted the learning of over 5 million children, influencing government spending of 173 million USD. Tulna has also conducted independent evaluations of 14 product companies that are publicly available and help these organisations to signal quality. Over the next few years, Tulna’s goal is to be adopted by 8 state governments and to continue independent evaluations.
Tulna has been built on global evidence around product design, making it easy to contextualise for other geographies. Within India, it can be adopted and implemented with ease by reaching out to the core team. Globally, it will require the presence of a local research team that will be supported by the core team in their journey of contextualisation.
