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Welcome to the EdTech Evidence Group

We are a peer-to-peer community of EdTech companies at all stages of their journey, leading a ground-breaking nationwide effort to raise the stand of evidence available for products supporting students, teachers and schools.

We want to ensure the EdTech that schools are investing in really makes a difference to learners. We want to ensure schools are not baffled by clever marketing but can see clear evidence of impact before they buy.

The EEG logo is a recognised mark of quality within education. Schools know that EEG members make evidence a priority and can show the impact of their products. Not just anyone can join, we focus on recruiting the right companies that are fully committed to these aims and objectives. So, if you believe your company meets these criteria, we would be delighted to discuss how you can get involved. Join us and help educators make better-informed decisions about the EdTech they invest in.

EdTech Companies

The best EdTech companies don’t just make claims, they combine technological innovation with an understanding of the needs of learners, then display their evidence for all to see, can you?

Education Establishments

If you are looking to invest in Edtech then make sure you download our checklist of the five things to look for when seeing the right EdTech product for your organisation.

Who we are

We are a member organisation bringing together EdTech companies who share a belief that there needs to be a step-change in the level of evidence available about EdTech. Click on the button below to find out more about the EEG and our objectives, as well as a list of our current members.

Founding members

Our Sponsors

Together with our sponsors we will be working hard to raise the profile for the need for evidence in EdTech.

Principal Sponsor

The Edtech Evidence Group (EEG) is delighted to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has agreed to become its Principal Sponsor for the forthcoming year. Amazon Web Services and the EEG will be working together to help raise the profile of the need for evidence in EdTech. This includes working with and mentoring edtech businesses to help them provide better evidence of the efficacy of their products and supporting schools to help them evaluate the evidence that is provided by edtech organisations.

Freeths is a full service commercial law firm with a national office network providing advice to businesses.

Leading provider of secure school data management solutions to over 25,000 schools.

'"At Alps our award-winning analysis tools are built by teachers for teachers, so it's absolutely vital we stay on the pulse with feedback from our customer community. Joining the EdTech Evidence Group is another step towards ensuring the voices of our customers and the benefits they are receiving are heard far and wide."

The EdTech sector is a jewel in our digital sector. Investment is up, adoption in schools is growing and we know more about how EdTech supports teachers and learners. Edtech UK is proud to be partners with the EdTech Evidence Group. For EdTech to have a real impact in our schools there needs to be a clear and honest conversation about how it can really help. The EEG is an important step along the journey. Our work with government is positive with a new strategy and roll out to schools. We now need real ambition for the EdTech sector – to help business growth across all of our country and teachers to use technology to support learning.

As the trade association for educational suppliers BESA carries out a range of quality assurance checks on its members and ensures that they abide by our industry code of practice. It is encouraging to see a drive for similar quality standards in specialist areas of the education sector. The new EEG initiative should help schools to evaluate the impact of educational technology products.

In the past decade, the landscape of support to teachers, learners and parents has changed out of all recognition. Proliferation is both an asset and a problem. We must not sleepwalk into educational chaos. It’s all very well saying that ‘quality will always rise to the surface’ but there’s strong international evidence that it doesn’t, and isn’t likely to.

With 2.4 million Googleplay apps and 1.8 million Apple apps overall – and 200,000 Android educational apps, who on earth has the time and market information to choose applications grounded in the right educational models, with the right ‘baked in’ assumptions, and possessing the highest potential for beneficial rather than adverse impact? Signalling quality is essential. Consumers will only make good choices if they are informed. And with rampant proliferation, research-informed choice is exactly what we need.

Evidence in edTech

As a member organisation of like-minded EdTech companies, with products based on evidence, we encourage EdTech providers to make the availability and transparency of evidence a priority, whilst also providing support to schools seeking clear evidence for the implementation of EdTech in their classrooms.

The EEG is set up as a CIC.

(A CIC is a non-charitable limited company, which exists primarily to benefit a community or with a view to pursuing a social purpose rather than to make profits for their members).

EdTech Evidence Group

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info@edtechevidence.com