EdTech for Good Framework Version 2.0
Evaluating and designing responsible digital and AI-enabled tools for learning and teaching
About
The EdTech for Good Framework facilitates the structured review and understanding of whether an EdTech tool is transparent, safe, educationally sound, contextually appropriate, and accessible to diverse learners and environments.
The EdTech for Good Framework was developed in collaboration with UNICEF, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA), Arm, and the Asian Development Bank, together with multi-stakeholder groups of experts, practitioners and industry in a co-creation process. The framework was developed in response to an increasing need to determine whether education technology (EdTech) is designed for good and with clarity, transparency and accountability. Across global education systems, decision-makers are required to assess complex tools which may present limited evidence or unclear intent against a backdrop of fast changing technological requirements. At the same time, EdTech providers are expected to demonstrate impact without a common consensus of what constitutes appropriate or sufficient evidence. For UNICEF, these challenges go together with the need to ensure that digital technologies used in education uphold children’s rights, protect well-being, and support meaningful learning in practice.
The Version 2.0 Framework now also helps users better understand the organization behind an EdTech product or service, its intended purpose and suitability for responsible, safe use in education, and whether claims made about the product are supported by appropriate evidence.
Made available as a public good, the EdTech for Good Framework is intended to be localised and adapted to ensure contextual relevance of the framework in action. Both an overview of the framework, outlining how it can be understood, adapted and implemented, and the full framework are being made available to support the launch of Version 2.0 of the Framework. Further resources to aid adaptation and implementation of the framework will be made available over time. These will provide guidance around methods of evaluation, and ways that the framework can be adapted to actively support EdTech providers as they develop EdTech for Good.
