Learning + Society
Learning + Society
Designed to modernize and accelerate education for every learner, this prize challenged teams to develop new methods for rapidly testing and scaling effective digital learning tools to deliver better outcomes to learners around the world.
Impact
$8.7M in added wages projected within the first year
3,500+ workers trained through finalist programs
Average wages increased from $8.80/hour to $19/hour
Winner
Four finalists—Dignified Work, Isotonik, SHIFA360, and VITAL—shared $1.5M for reskilling workers in healthcare, tech, and essential services. Their AI-, AR-, and online learning programs accelerated training and job placement.
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Barrier
Millions of vulnerable workers face job loss from automation, economic shifts, and crises like COVID-19. Traditional training is slow, costly, and inaccessible, leaving those most at risk without pathways to stable, in-demand careers.
Breakthrough
Breakthrough solutions would build infrastructure to rapidly test and refine learning tools in real classrooms. By using AI to analyze results in days, not months, solutions made it possible to match proven approaches to the students who benefit most.
About the Prize
The $1M XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge set out to modernize how we evaluate education technology—transforming a slow, fragmented process into one that keeps pace with evolving student needs. Teams were challenged to design infrastructure capable of running real-world classroom experiments at scale, delivering rapid, actionable insights.
The winning team, Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator, created the MOOClet toolkit—an open platform that empowers teachers, students, and researchers to submit instructional ideas and test them in real time. Their AI-driven system adapts experiments within days, rather than the months required by traditional methods, dramatically accelerating the cycle from idea to impact.
By rethinking how we measure learning, the Digital Learning Challenge opened the door to education systems that are more responsive, personalized, and effective for millions of learners.
Prize Schedule
Launched in 2021, the competition concluded in 2022. After real-world testing of finalists’ tools, Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator was named the Grand Prize winner for their MOOClet toolkit’s ability to rapidly identify effective learning strategies in classrooms.
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