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Ed Tech Innovators Awarded More Than $4 Million For Tools To Aid 35 Million Learners

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星期四, 九月 7, 2023

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The next ChatGPT is out there. So are solutions to improve math skills for K-12 students following the sharpest declines in decades, address equity in education, bolster students' problem-solving and emotional skills, and unlock career training opportunities via virtual reality. Supporting these real-time advances is the Tools Competition, which announced its 2022-23 winners today.

Key Points: 
  • The Tools Competition is one of the largest ed tech competitions in the world.
  • In all, 32 recipients from 12 countries were awarded more than $4 million to develop and expand their tools, which will impact 35 million learners by 2026.
  • This is the third cycle of the Tools Competition, which has awarded nearly $10 million to 80 ed tech innovators to date.
  • It aims to grow the learning engineering field via ed tech innovation that leverages big data to support learning science research.