{"id":91135,"date":"2024-03-26T12:57:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=91135"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:58:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:58:24","slug":"learning-designers-call-for-more-user-testing-of-edtech-products-and-teaching-materials-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/03\/26\/learning-designers-call-for-more-user-testing-of-edtech-products-and-teaching-materials-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Designers Call for More User Testing of Edtech Products and Teaching Materials [Young]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2024-03-19-learning-designers-call-for-more-user-testing-of-edtech-products-and-teaching-materials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Learning Designers Call for More User Testing of Edtech Products and Teaching Materials<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from edsurge.com by\u00a0Jeffrey R. Young<br \/>\n<em>\u2018Co-creating\u2019 materials with students can lead to better outcomes, experts argue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">He notes that there aren\u2019t good incentives for edtech companies to spend the time and effort on more-detailed testing with students. \u201cThey\u2019re selling to the government, to the administration, to the district,\u201d he points out. \u201cThey\u2019re not selling to the child \u2014 the child has no purchasing power. The kids never really get heard and the teachers rarely get heard. Then they throw it into the classroom and then you\u2019re testing, \u2018Did the scores go up?\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nExperts have also called for more teachers and educators to be involved\u00a0with the development of edtech products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Designers Call for More User Testing of Edtech Products and Teaching Materials &#8212; from edsurge.com by\u00a0Jeffrey R. Young \u2018Co-creating\u2019 materials with students can lead to better outcomes, experts argue. He notes that there aren\u2019t good incentives for edtech companies to spend the time and effort on more-detailed testing with students. \u201cThey\u2019re selling to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[286,343,32,119,46,7,838,66,89,195,321,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-learning","category-education","category-education-technology","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-tools","category-united-states","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91138,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91135\/revisions\/91138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}