CourseKata Research

CourseKata Research Network

CourseKata is more than a textbook or a curriculum. It’s a community of educators, students, researchers, and designers who are inspired by the opportunity to improve teaching and learning in classrooms. CourseKata provides unique benefits for researchers who want to make a real difference in education.

Conduct Research in Authentic Classroom Settings

It’s not easy to study teaching and learning in real classes but CourseKata's Better Book approach makes it possible. Students’ de-identified response data are available in real-time, enabling researchers to study learning in diverse college and high school courses.

Run Random-Assignment Experiments in Real Classes

CourseKata technology enables researchers to conduct random-assignment experiments within classes – a game-changer for studying mechanisms of learning. For example, you can examine whether:

a revised section of text leads to greater learning than the original;
an embedded intervention improves student motivation;
providing a video example impacts subsequent student engagement, learning, and performance.

Publish Your Work and Make an Impact on Students

The CourseKata Research Network provides a unique opportunity to publish your findings to the field, but also make improvements that can (and will) be immediately used by thousands of students.

Oh, and also: We’ll help you write your grant proposal!

Yes, you read that right! If you want to work in CourseKata’s research ecosystem, we can help you with boilerplate language and resources to strengthen your grant proposals.