Learning Engineering Tools Competition Grant

Learning Engineering Tools Competition Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Tools Competition
Last Updated: December 06, 2025

Summary

The Learning Engineering Tools Competition is a significant funding opportunity aimed at fostering educational technology innovations. It seeks to leverage digital tools, big data, and learning science to improve learner outcomes globally. This competition encourages diverse participants, from students to established companies, to develop solutions that can generate valuable learning data. By promoting collaboration among educators, researchers, and tech innovators, the initiative aims to advance the field of learning engineering and enhance educational practices.

Overview

Learning Engineering Tools Competition The Learning Engineering Tools Competition is a multi-million dollar funding opportunity for edtech innovation that leverages digital technology, big data, and learning science to meet the urgent needs of learners worldwide. Objectives Catalyze learning outcomes - We support cutting edge solutions for the most pressing challenges facing learners worldwide.Advance learning science research - We build capacity for edtech to leverage big data to support a better understanding of learning at scale.Develop all innovators - We welcome individuals and teams at all phases of development - from early ideas to established platforms.Build the Learning Engineering community - We cultivate a strong network, driving collaboration between edtech, researchers, and educators. Why Learning Engineering? The Tools Competition meets an urgent need to leverage cutting edge digital technology and data to support learning science research at scale. Underpinning the competition is the growing field of learning engineering, which brings together edtech, researchers, and educators to leverage big data to: expand what we know about learning - what works, for whom, and under what conditions.catalyze a cycle of continuous improvement to develop more effective interventions and drive evidence-based product innovation. Edtech has an important role to play in contributing to research at scale. Tools generate rich data that can allow researchers to run studies and better understand the learning process. All competitors will need to detail how their tool contributes to learning engineering. Read the Tools Competition FAQs.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Eligible tools have the potential to generate novel learning data that researchers can study to better understand learning at scale. This may include an app, software, algorithm, dataset, or other digital technology that facilitates or supports continuous data collection and has the potential to scale at minimal cost.Subject to these Rules, individuals and entities from all countries and with any background who satisfy the eligibility requirements are eligible to compete in the Competition, including, students, teachers, researchers, small and large companies and not-for-profit foundationsThe Tools Competition is eager to hear from participants from across the globe. Participants must be able to accept funds from US based entities.Participants are welcome to submit more than one concept to phase 1 of the competition. We will review the initial concepts and work with you to move the one or two that are most competitive to the next phase of the competition.The Futures Forum on Learning is focused on helping students in K-12. But if a team has particularly strong proposal in higher education, workforce development, or another education related space, the team should submit the idea.