SEERNet: Opening Digital Learning Platforms to YOUR Research
Channel: Learning Analytics Learning Network
Date: 12/09/2022

Jeremy Roschelle (Digital Promise) shares how you can become involved in SEERNet, an IES-funded network of five digital learning platforms that each will be opening their capabilities to outside researchers. The goal of SEERNet is to leverage existing, widely used digital learning platforms for rigorous education research. The initial set of five platforms includes a widely used mathematics problem solving platform (ASSISTments/ETrials), a leading university that has massively expanded its programs through online and digital classrooms (ASU), the biggest open textbook publisher (Kinetic / OpenStax), a well-known adaptive mathematics curriculum and A/B testing tool (Mathia/Upgrade), and a plug-in to very popular LMS (Canvas with Terracotta). The session discusses what these platforms seek to enable and information about future funding opportunities to conduct research with them under IES’s SEER Principles, which include ideas about scalability, generalizability, implementation fidelity, open science, equity and more. Knowing these principles and how they apply in digital learning settings will improve your ability to write winning compelling proposals, as funding becomes available to conduct research with SEERNet. More information is available at https://learninganalytics.net/laln/previous-events/