Education Innovation Clusters
The mission of the Office of Educational Technology (OET) is to provide leadership for transforming education through the power of technology. OET develops national educational technology policy and establishes the vision for how technology can be used to support learning. OET supports the President’s and Secretary’s priorities by:
- Promoting equity of access by ensuring all learners are connected to broadband internet.
- Supporting Future Ready educators and a robust ecosystem of entrepreneurs and innovators.
- Leading cutting-edge research in learning analytics and data to provide new types of evidence and customize and improve learning.
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OET is part of the Office of the Secretary of Education and as such works in collaboration and partnership with all other ED offices relating to effective use of technology to support learning. OET is also the primary office for outreach to the developer community.
Source: Office of Educational Technology
Elements of an Education Innovation Cluster
To be considered an education innovation cluster, a region will articulate the connection between three key partners; educators, researchers, and entrepreneurs – each adding their unique strengths to the network.
- Educational partners provide an environment where emerging learning technologies can be piloted and new solutions can be developed with input from students and teachers. Educational partners might be early learning providers, public and/or private schools, libraries, community centers, after school programs, institutions of higher education, or virtual learning environments. These innovative schools and learning centers provide the flexibility and capability to rapidly develop, test, and collect data on new approaches and products.
- Research partners conduct basic and applied research related to advancing the field of learning science. They can be integrally connected to the entrepreneurial partners to ensure effective design of learning technologies. They would also have deep relationships with the educational partners to streamline the collection of data and outcomes to conduct ongoing evaluations of the products and approaches developed in the cluster.
- Commercial partners infuse new technologies to address problems and help scale and market successful implementations. They can also provide investment capital to accelerate the commercialization of intellectual property and increase the probability of success of new enterprises built on the knowledge and solutions generated in the cluster. The quality and relevance of products will greatly improve with consistent access to the educational and research partners in the cluster.
