LearnPlatform Educational Technology Engagement Dataset: Impact of COVID-19 on Digital Learning
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Mary Styers, LearnPlatform Inc.
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Project Citation:
Styers, Mary. LearnPlatform Educational Technology Engagement Dataset: Impact of COVID-19 on Digital Learning. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-09-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E150042V1
Project Description
Summary:
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LearnPlatform is a unique technology platform in the K-12 market providing the only broadly interoperable platform to the breadth of edtech solutions in the US K12 field. A key component of edtech effectiveness is integrated reporting on tool usage and, where applicable, evidence of efficacy. With COVID closures, LearnPlatform has emerged as an important and singular resource to measure whether students are accessing digital resources within distance learning constraints. This platform provides a unique and needed source of data to understand if students are accessing digital resources, and where resources have disparate usage and impact.
In this dataset we are sharing educational technology usage across the 8,000+ tools used in the education field in 2020. We make this dataset available to public so that educators, district leaders, researchers, institutions, policy-makers or anyone interested to learn about digital learning in 2020, can use this dataset to understand student engagement with core learning activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some example research questions that this dataset can help stakeholders answer:
In this dataset we are sharing educational technology usage across the 8,000+ tools used in the education field in 2020. We make this dataset available to public so that educators, district leaders, researchers, institutions, policy-makers or anyone interested to learn about digital learning in 2020, can use this dataset to understand student engagement with core learning activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some example research questions that this dataset can help stakeholders answer:
- What is the picture of digital connectivity and engagement in 2020?
- What is the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on online and distance learning, and how might this evolve in the future?
- How does student engagement with different types of education technology change over the course of the pandemic?
- How does student engagement with online learning platforms relate to different geography? Demographic context (e.g., race/ethnicity, ESL, learning disability)? Learning context? Socioeconomic status?
- Do certain state interventions, practices or policies (e.g., stimulus, reopening, eviction moratorium) correlate with increases or decreases in online engagement?
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Digital Learning;
Educational Technology;
COVID
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
Time Period(s):
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1/2020 – 12/2020
Collection Date(s):
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1/2020 – 12/2020
Universe:
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K-12 population of United States.
Data Type(s):
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other
Methodology
Data Source:
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You can find three data sources in this dataset.
1. EdTech Engagement Data: This is the key data utilized by this project that was collected via the LearnPlatform Chrome extension. This technology and the associated reporting platform are made available to all US schools and districts free of charge. The extension collects page load events of over 10K education technology products in our product library, including websites, apps, web apps, software programs, extensions, ebooks, hardware, and services used in educational institutions. The engagement data have been aggregated at the school district level, and each file represents data from one school district.
2. Products info: The dataset includes information about the characteristics of the top 372 products with the most users in 2020.
3. District info: The dataset includes information about the characteristics of school districts, including data from NCES and FCC. This data is de-identified.
1. EdTech Engagement Data: This is the key data utilized by this project that was collected via the LearnPlatform Chrome extension. This technology and the associated reporting platform are made available to all US schools and districts free of charge. The extension collects page load events of over 10K education technology products in our product library, including websites, apps, web apps, software programs, extensions, ebooks, hardware, and services used in educational institutions. The engagement data have been aggregated at the school district level, and each file represents data from one school district.
2. Products info: The dataset includes information about the characteristics of the top 372 products with the most users in 2020.
3. District info: The dataset includes information about the characteristics of school districts, including data from NCES and FCC. This data is de-identified.
Collection Mode(s):
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other
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