Sharing Updates from the Global EdTech Testbed/Trialling Network (GETN)
University College London Professor and Co-Founder of Global EdTech Testbed/Trialling Network (GETN) - Alison Clark-Wilson - shared updates from the recent GETN virtual meet-up event.
The GETN community all share a common interest in how to design, implement and evaluate more systemic Edtech Testbed (or “Trialling” in the US) approaches. These systemic Testbeds enable a diversity of EdTech to generate evidence of their product’s impacts in collaboration with teachers, learners (and supported by researchers).
Members of the network shared ongoing projects, which included:
news of the newly funded Helsinki Edtech Testbed (sent in by Niko Lindholm, who leads the relaunched Helsinki Education Hub Edtech Accelerator)
the Nordic EdTech Report 2024 (presented by Esben Trier, EdTech Denmark)
an update on the 2024 EdTech Testbed project in South Korea (presented by Scarlet Mins, Learning Spark)
a report from the GETN event at EdTech East Africa on September (presented by Naftaly Muroli, Metis Collective)
an update on the development of a GETN-UK network, with a launch event planned for 30th October 2024 in London. (presented by Michael Forshaw, Edtech Impact)
information about the Panel presentation (Oct 4th) and GETN regional workshop (Oct 5th) during the EdTech Asia Summit (presented by Alison Clark-Wilson, University College London and Cofounder of GETN)
a GETN-US white paper on the Capital Flows in EdTech Evidence Generation in in the US and launch of the AGILE Network (presented by Katy Boody-Addorno, CoFounder of GETN and CEO of Leanlab)
The community updates were followed by break-out groups at which the emerging GETN Logic Model was discussed and critiqued. This raised a host of questions about GETN’s ultimate impact goals - and how GETN seeks to serve the global community by sharing knowledge, expertise and resources that support the design of many, many systemic Edtech Testbeds that serve the needs of a diversity of Edtechs, learners, educational and pedagogic innovations, research approaches and funding constraints.
If this very niche topic is of interest to you, the first step to getting involved in GETN is to take the GETN survey, which helps us to further global Edtech Testbed research and connect with individuals and organisations who are actively developing a diversity of much-needed sustainable and systemic approaches.