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Getting teachers at the forefront of Educational Technology - An EmpowerED Event supporting European testbeds
Engaging with testbeds of all shapes and sizes!
Kicking off an exciting chapter for EdTech in Europe! EmpowerED, the Global EdTech Testbed Network (GETN), and EdTech Station launched the European dialogue on EdTech testbeds with a dynamic event in Kortrijk (Belgium). Organised as part of the EmpowerED project, which is coordinated by European Schoolnet (EUN) and supported by Scientix®, the initiative is financed by the European Commission and aims to strengthen collaboration in Europe’s digital education sector.
Testbeds can exist in all shapes and sizes but at the heart of them all are educators and learners. The event brought together representatives of 7 testing ecosystems in Europe – Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland – in an exciting ‘testbed safari’ that introduced all participants to different frameworks and practices around testing ecosystems.
In many of the examples we saw in Kortrijk, the process was in fact initiated by schools, who presented their needs to the testbed and then met EdTech developers to work on those needs. And in the process, EdTech developers had a chance to improve their solutions making them not only more attractive but also more meaningful. Above all, testing ecosystems are about building trust for the mutual goal of ‘better learning’!
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