DoED  XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge
Stage 1: Team Proposal Submission deadline - October 22, 2021
Stage 2: Team Registration and Technical Submission deadline - December 15, 2021
Stage 3: Pilot Submission deadline - July 2022
Stage 4: Demonstration Phase -  deadline February 2023

The XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge     https://www.xprize.org/challenge/digitallearning   is designed to incentivize developers of digital learning platforms to build, modify, and then test an infrastructure to run rigorous experiments that can be implemented and replicated faster than traditional on-ground randomized control trials. The long-term goal of the competition is to modernize, accelerate, and improve the ways in which we identify effective learning tools and processes that improve learning outcomes. 

With the power of digital learning tools, increasing connectivity, acceleration in Big Data, machine learning, and AI methods, technology provides an opportunity to measure, improve learning and our understanding of how learning takes place. While many learning platforms already collect data and conduct substantive analyses, practices to collect data with the intention of understanding learning, rather than for technical debugging, are not widespread.

The winning team of the Digital Learning Challenge sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) will build infrastructure to conduct rapid, reproducible experiments and demonstrate the resilience and rigor of this infrastructure in a formal learning context. 
The winning team must minimally demonstrate its ability to:

• Conduct an Randomized Control Trial (RCT) or Quasi Experimental Design (QED) using any meaningful and substantive educational intervention
• Systematically replicate the experiment at least five times in no more than 30 days
• Replicate the experiment within at least three distinct demographics