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Evaluating Impact at Scale Through Equity, Evidence, and Ecosystem
EDU T408

Course Information

Description

*Lottery-based Enrollment* T408 exposes the complexities of innovating for impact in education and how a more collaborative and inclusive approach can yield more equitable interventions and results. In this course, educational impact innovation refers to the development and implementation of novel approaches, strategies, and technologies aimed at addressing educational challenges while actively promoting equity. Through a series of panel conversations with leaders in education impact innovation, often through technology, students will explore the tangible and real-world challenges that organizations confront as they attempt to disrupt inequities in education. Applying the lenses of equity, evidence, and ecosystem, students will learn to view and evaluate the potential of funders and organizations to drive and sustain learning impact at scale. By the end of the course, students will have a better sense of where, in the larger ecosystem, to focus their individual future contributions to activate impact.
This course fulfills the Equity & Opportunity elective requirement for Ed.M. students. Enrollment limited to 30 students.

Class Notes

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School Graduate School of Education
Credits 4
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Department Education
Course Component Regular Course
Instruction Mode In Person
Subject Education
Grading Basis HGSE Student Option (Letter Graded, Sat/Unsat)
Learning Goals Developing a framework for: - defining equity personally and from various perspectives across different contexts and impact ecosystems; - appreciating the diversity of research methods and types of evidence to consider when designing educational interventions that disrupt inequities; - articulating the ecosystem which an educational intervention must penetrate, influence, and leverage in order to promote impact; - identifying useful mechanisms to generate and collect evidence of relevant change; - evaluating the potential of educational innovations to address inequities effectively; - weighing different strategies for scaling impact; - considering tradeoffs for sustaining impact over time. Developing skills in: - evaluating research; - synthesizing information from multiple sources; - public speaking; - moderating a panel discussion; - eliciting and responding to different perspectives and points of view; - stating theories of action and supporting evidence; - listening carefully and asking relevant, probing questions; - evaluating the potential for an educational innovation to sustain its desired impact at scale.
Career Focus <p>This course will be valuable for anyone interested in any aspect of social impact, equity, and opportunity - product development, social entrepreneurship, evaluation, learning design, and fundraising.</p>