Read the new OECD publication on supporting teachers to use digital tools for developing and assessing 21st century competences.

Empowering research and EdTech development

Empowering research and EdTech development

Empowering research and EdTech development

PILA for Research

Flexible and secure data collection

Research teams can use PILA to administer studies that integrate quality learning and assessment material, as well as data analysers and reporting tools. PILA collects time-stamped data on students' interactions that are made available to OECD-approved researchers in anonymised datasets.

PILA offers customisation tools for existing applications and flexible APIs for integrating new content and tools. Researchers can investigate questions related to how students learn, innovations in learning and assessment and the use of digital technologies (e.g., AI-powered tools) in education.

If you are interested in conducting research using PILA, get in touch!

PILA for Research

Flexible and secure data collection

Research teams can use PILA to administer studies that integrate quality learning and assessment material, as well as data analysers and reporting tools. PILA collects time-stamped data on students' interactions that are made available to OECD-approved researchers in anonymised datasets.

PILA offers customisation tools for existing applications and flexible APIs for integrating new content and tools. Researchers can investigate questions related to how students learn, innovations in learning and assessment and the use of digital technologies (e.g., AI-powered tools) in education.

If you are interested in conducting research using PILA, get in touch!

PILA for Research

Flexible and secure data collection

Research teams can use PILA to administer studies that integrate quality learning and assessment material, as well as data analysers and reporting tools. PILA collects time-stamped data on students' interactions that are made available to OECD-approved researchers in anonymised datasets.

PILA offers customisation tools for existing applications and flexible APIs for integrating new content and tools. Researchers can investigate questions related to how students learn, innovations in learning and assessment and the use of digital technologies (e.g., AI-powered tools) in education.

If you are interested in conducting research using PILA, get in touch!

PILA for Developers

Agile and open technology

PILA provides an integrated set of design and data collection tools in one secure system so that software developers can focus on what’s important – implementing their ideas!

The Know Learning team behind the PILA back-end offers valuable guidance and ways of using or integrating open-source tools for content creation, data collection, processing and analysis. These tools provide users with an abundance of options for creating new tasks, swift prototyping and sharing of rich pools of content that serve the education community.

Get in touch to learn more about how PILA can jumpstart your development project!

PILA for Developers

Agile and open technology

PILA provides an integrated set of design and data collection tools in one secure system so that software developers can focus on what’s important – implementing their ideas!

The Know Learning team behind the PILA back-end offers valuable guidance and ways of using or integrating open-source tools for content creation, data collection, processing and analysis. These tools provide users with an abundance of options for creating new tasks, swift prototyping and sharing of rich pools of content that serve the education community.

Get in touch to learn more about how PILA can jumpstart your development project!

PILA for Developers

Agile and open technology

PILA provides an integrated set of design and data collection tools in one secure system so that software developers can focus on what’s important – implementing their ideas!

The Know Learning team behind the PILA back-end offers valuable guidance and ways of using or integrating open-source tools for content creation, data collection, processing and analysis. These tools provide users with an abundance of options for creating new tasks, swift prototyping and sharing of rich pools of content that serve the education community.

Get in touch to learn more about how PILA can jumpstart your development project!

How PILA contributes to shaping the future of assessment

PILA promotes knowledge sharing and experimentation to generate more valid and useful assessments of complex skills. As the PILA community grows, we can delve into a number of important questions, including:

What are important competences for which we need new assessments, and how can we design assessments to accurately measure them?

PILA can be used to pilot new ideas for assessing complex, 21st Century competences, including considerations on task design, use of digital tools, AI-powered analytical models and implementation of scaffolds to collect the necessary evidence on students’ mastery of these competences. Some of these ideas will be further developed for large-scale international assessments such as PISA, as well as for national assessments. PILA provides a space where teachers, assessment experts, technology designers and policymakers can exchange perspectives on this important question.  

How can we design digital assessments for use in the classroom?

The PILA applications invite learners to conduct experimental work, handle large quantities of information and data, play with ideas, and build creative solutions to problems. By monitoring students’ work on these activities and reflecting on detailed performance reports, teachers can better understand their students’ strengths and weakness and adapt everyday instruction. The experience of teachers working with PILA can tell us more about how digital tools are best integrated in the curriculum, and what teachers need in order to make the best use of them for learning.  

How can big data from formative learning platforms inform policy decisions and students’ own choices?  

PILA and similar systems that blend learning and assessment have the potential to generate large quantities of data that can be used to design and measure the impact of educational interventions, identify at-risk students or provide guidance to students in their educational choices. By engaging with policymakers and public institutions around the world, PILA can contribute to the discussion on appropriate uses of big data in education. 

If you would like to contribute your ideas on these and other important questions on the future of learning and assessment, please contact us!

How PILA contributes to shaping the future of assessment

PILA promotes knowledge sharing and experimentation to generate more valid and useful assessments of complex skills. As the PILA community grows, we can delve into a number of important questions, including:

What are important competences for which we need new assessments, and how can we design assessments to accurately measure them?

PILA can be used to pilot new ideas for assessing complex, 21st Century competences, including considerations on task design, use of digital tools, AI-powered analytical models and implementation of scaffolds to collect the necessary evidence on students’ mastery of these competences. Some of these ideas will be further developed for large-scale international assessments such as PISA, as well as for national assessments. PILA provides a space where teachers, assessment experts, technology designers and policymakers can exchange perspectives on this important question.  

How can we design digital assessments for use in the classroom?

The PILA applications invite learners to conduct experimental work, handle large quantities of information and data, play with ideas, and build creative solutions to problems. By monitoring students’ work on these activities and reflecting on detailed performance reports, teachers can better understand their students’ strengths and weakness and adapt everyday instruction. The experience of teachers working with PILA can tell us more about how digital tools are best integrated in the curriculum, and what teachers need in order to make the best use of them for learning.  

How can big data from formative learning platforms inform policy decisions and students’ own choices?  

PILA and similar systems that blend learning and assessment have the potential to generate large quantities of data that can be used to design and measure the impact of educational interventions, identify at-risk students or provide guidance to students in their educational choices. By engaging with policymakers and public institutions around the world, PILA can contribute to the discussion on appropriate uses of big data in education. 

If you would like to contribute your ideas on these and other important questions on the future of learning and assessment, please contact us!

How PILA contributes to shaping the future of assessment

PILA promotes knowledge sharing and experimentation to generate more valid and useful assessments of complex skills. As the PILA community grows, we can delve into a number of important questions, including:

What are important competences for which we need new assessments, and how can we design assessments to accurately measure them?

PILA can be used to pilot new ideas for assessing complex, 21st Century competences, including considerations on task design, use of digital tools, AI-powered analytical models and implementation of scaffolds to collect the necessary evidence on students’ mastery of these competences. Some of these ideas will be further developed for large-scale international assessments such as PISA, as well as for national assessments. PILA provides a space where teachers, assessment experts, technology designers and policymakers can exchange perspectives on this important question.  

How can we design digital assessments for use in the classroom?

The PILA applications invite learners to conduct experimental work, handle large quantities of information and data, play with ideas, and build creative solutions to problems. By monitoring students’ work on these activities and reflecting on detailed performance reports, teachers can better understand their students’ strengths and weakness and adapt everyday instruction. The experience of teachers working with PILA can tell us more about how digital tools are best integrated in the curriculum, and what teachers need in order to make the best use of them for learning.  

How can big data from formative learning platforms inform policy decisions and students’ own choices?  

PILA and similar systems that blend learning and assessment have the potential to generate large quantities of data that can be used to design and measure the impact of educational interventions, identify at-risk students or provide guidance to students in their educational choices. By engaging with policymakers and public institutions around the world, PILA can contribute to the discussion on appropriate uses of big data in education. 

If you would like to contribute your ideas on these and other important questions on the future of learning and assessment, please contact us!

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