The education sector has been designing and evaluating EdTech for decades, but only recently through more systemic EdTech “testbeds”. However, these operate as “black boxes” with many of the processes and products invisible. GETN was created to harness growing interest to understand and systemtically document different testbed approaches to better understand and share effective testing methods.
GETN aims to collect, produce, and communicate knowledge while nurturing a global community of EdTech testbed stakeholders. In practice, this means GETN:
-Surfaces existing EdTech testbed processes and products that are hypothesised and/or evidenced to be effective for different stakeholders within the global EdTech ecosystem.
-Produces syntheses of these processes and products in open-source, written forms to both map the landscape and summarise key features of different testbeds.
-Produce knowledge resources for global stakeholders in high-, medium- and low-resource contexts that can support stakeholders to realise learning outcomes for children through the integration of EdTech in teaching and learning.
-Nurture a global community of EdTech stakeholders with a common interest in effective EdTech Testbed design, implementation and evaluation. Thus far, GETN has hosted gatherings and workshops in Italy, the UK, and Qatar.
GETN spreads by making global connections with, and between, stakeholders in EdTech, including learners, teachers, schools, entrepreneurs, EdTech developers, institutions, governments, investors, and foundations. GETN fosters dialogue through open-source research and reporting, particularly through the white paper “Towards Systemic EdTech Testbeds: A Global Perspective” which showcases practices and learnings of different EdTech testbeds in several countries. GETN has also produced the first “Tenets & Principles of EdTech Trialing Networks & Environments in the US” and continues to build on testbed work in the USA. Additionally, GETN has hosted workshops for EdTech stakeholders in Italy and the UK, as well as contributed to international conferences such as BETT and WISE.
Become part of the network! Visit our website at: https://globaledtech.org/ to access and read our reports. From there, you can directly reach out to us to explore how being a part of the network might support your own work.
