About Us
WestEd is a nonpartisan research, development, and service agency. For over 50 years, we’ve worked with education and other communities to promote excellence and improve learning for children, youth, and adults
Over the past decade, the EdTech@WestEd team has led the charge to ensure research, evidence, and the learning sciences drive edtech policy, design, selection, and implementation. Along the way, we’ve partnered with over 150 EdTech companies. We’re experienced in everything from discovery and design research to small scale usability and feasibility studies to large randomized control trials.
How we can help
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Save Time and Money
Our competitive analysis and evidence-based design strategies can prevent time-consuming and costly product development mistakes.
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Increase Usage
Many edtech products struggle to grow and yield sustained use. Our experts anticipate barriers to motivation, adoption, and scale
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Improve Learning
Our team tests and analyzes your product on multiple dimensions to identify changes that will maximize student learning.
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Get Buy-In
Parents, teachers, and districts want evidence that edtech works. Research designs meeting ESSA standards differentiate your product.
Press, publications, and collaborations
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- Sights on EdTech podcast
- EdTech Partnerships: Key Findings (2022-2023 Report)
- EdTech Partnerships: Key Findings (2021-2022 Report)
- Logic Models as a Framework for Iterative User Research in Educational Technology
- Is My Ed Tech Tool Making a Difference?
- It’s Time to Ditch the Idea of Edtech Disruption. But What Comes Next?
- Gamification Fatigue? Try Game-Based Learning (Interview)
