Can personalized recommendations improve engagement in educational technology? We design, test, and scale a collaborative filtering system for Freadom, an English-learning app for Indian children. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 7,750 students shows that personalization, deployed in a...

Research suggests that students are skeptical about the values of General Education courses. This revelation calls for different strategies to improve students' engagement in the classes, including the use of online learning platforms. This study documents students' experiences of the online...

Online learning resources have become extremely popular, particularly after the restrictions caused by the Covid-19 outbreak. In this paper, we use data for Spain at the individual level from an online math learning platform which is used by children from over 100 countries, to document the...

This after-action review (AAR) investigates the use of evidence in Sweden's advice-making process for distance learning during the period November 2020 to April 2021 (the focus period) in response to the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID19) pandemic. The case-study approach of this AAR allowed for in-depth...