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XPRIZE, Institute for Education Sciences Create $1M Digital Learning Challenge to Improve Learning Outcomes

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Monday, March 22, 2021

XPRIZE , the worlds leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanitys grand challenges, is launching $1M Digital Learning Challenge to modernize, accelerate, and improve effective learning tools and processes that improve learning outcomes.

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  • XPRIZE , the worlds leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanitys grand challenges, is launching $1M Digital Learning Challenge to modernize, accelerate, and improve effective learning tools and processes that improve learning outcomes.
  • Sponsored by the Institute for Education Sciences (IES), the Digital Learning Challenge will enable experiments of frequency, scope and scale not possible through traditional methods used in education research or commercial edtech processes.
  • With the power of digital learning tools, increasing connectivity, acceleration in big data, machine learning, and AI methods, technology provides an opportunity to measure, improve learning and our understanding of how learning takes place.
  • The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the independent and nonpartisan statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education.