Identifying the problem: EdTech Efficacy Academic Research Symposium

After activating more than 10 working groups and 300 stakeholders, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Symposium convenes at Gallup World Headquarters in Washington, DC. The upshot is overwhelming agreement on three fronts: context matters in edtech implementation; the current chaotic state of edtech is no single actor’s fault; and somebody needs to lead a broad research effort to understand and share what works where, and why.