The 3E Framework ensures that decisions about EdTech are based on evidence rather than assumptions. It creates a cycle: better evidence leads to better tools, and better tools lead to more evidence. This allows institutions to choose products that meet their needs, and providers gain insights to effectively improve their products.
The 3E Framework lays a foundation for collaboration between researchers, institutions, and the EdTech sector in the Netherlands. By working together to generate, interpret, and apply evidence, EdTech adoption becomes an accessible, feasible, strategic, and sustainable process. This ultimately leads to better and future-proof integration of educational technology.
A key feature of the framework is its emphasis on continuous evaluation rather than static, one-time assessments. The main goal of the Dutch 3E Framework is not to mandate evaluation for all tools, but to promote a culture in which evidence-informed choices are embedded in all EdTech-related processes.
Educational Technology (EdTech) refers to digital tools designed to advance education by enhancing teaching and learning experiences and streamlining administrative tasks. These tools play an increasingly central role in education, transforming how students learn, teachers instruct, and institutions manage resources.
An EdTech ecosystem includes various stakeholders such as students, educators, institutions, EdTech providers, investors, policymakers, and researchers3. Each stakeholder plays a crucial role: students and teachers utilise the technology, institutions drive adoption, EdTech providers and investors foster innovation, policymakers establish regulations, and researchers analyse the need, design, and effectiveness of tools to shape future developments.
The Dutch 3E Framework offers an evidence-informed approach to evaluate the effectiveness of EdTech. A key feature of the framework is its emphasis on continuous evaluation rather than static, one-time validation, ensuring EdTech tools are improved over time. The framework is a step towards more effective technology integration in education by making evidence-informed decision-making (in the context of development, procurement and enhancement of EdTech) an accessible and actionable process.
The primary aim of the Dutch 3E Framework is not to mandate evaluation for all tools but to promote a culture where evidence-informed decision-making is embedded in all EdTech-related processes. This framework serves as a practical guide on how evidence is generated, interpreted, and used to develop, procure, and improve EdTech effectively.
The framework is expected to facilitate meaningful discussions within the Dutch education community about evidence-informed evaluation of EdTech and help navigate the complexities of technology integration in education.
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