The US Department of Education’s Digital Promise to advance the ed-tech field and online learning in public schools
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The USDoE’s Digital Promise to advance the ed-tech field, CBE, and online education
In 2011 the US Department of Education (USDoE) launched the nonprofit Digital Promise, and Digital Promise helped create The League of Innovative Schools. (Click to see the map of Innovative Schools in your area). Digital Promise and the League of Innovative Schools are involved with Relay Graduate School, Bloomboard, the use of standardized student hand gestures, real-time data from student white boards, data badges (micro-credentials) and Competencies. Click to see details. According to former US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan’s speech, the nonprofit marriage of Federal Government and Edtech, Digital Promise was created ” to advance the education technology field”.
“This is not a task for government alone. We can create the environment for innovation. But experts in schools, research labs, and entrepreneurs big and small will do the difficult work of developing new technologies, getting them adopted in homes, schools, and districts across the country.Digital Promise will aid that work by bringing together people from business, education, and the research community to advance the education technology field.
Even as we’re launching this new effort, a group of school districts have stepped forward to lead this transformation. We’re calling them the League of Innovative Schools.
Digital Promise will be a truly collaborative effort across all sectors.”
However, launching Digital Promise in the U.S. was not enough. The nonprofit GLOBAL Digital Promise was launched in 2013. Global DP’s work “supports learner agency” and The US Department of Education’s Digital Promise to advance the ed-tech field and online learning in public schools | Seattle Education:
