EdTech Testbed

Empowering Educators Through AI-Driven Innovation
2025-26 Applications are closed

About the WISE Testbed

About the WISE Testbed

The WISE EdTech Testbed empowers schools in Qatar to explore and evaluate innovative AI tools in real classrooms.

Through collaborative testing cycles, tailored teacher support, and rigorous evaluation, the program generates evidence to inform national education strategies and drive innovation at scale.

Strategic Partners

Program Highlights

Test New Methods

Schools experiment with progressive pedagogy and AI tools in authentic classroom settings.

Data-Driven Insights

Testing cycles evaluate impact on student learning and teacher experience.

Tailored PD

Teachers receive targeted professional development to support implementation.

Ecosystem For Innovation

Schools, policymakers, and EdTech providers collaborate to shape future education strategies.

Register Your Interest Here

Register Your Interest Here

If you’re an EdTech tool provider or an educator interested in participating in the WISE Testbed Program, we invite you to fill out an Interest Form. While the program is currently at full capacity, we will review your submission and do our best to explore opportunities for collaboration in future testing cycles.

👉 Qatar-Based Educators

👉 EdTech Providers

Resources & Publications

Explore reports, briefs, and key documents from the WISE EdTech Testbed to learn more about our approach, findings, and impact. 

Research Studies

Qatar’s Edtech Testbed: Challenges and Opportunities for Building Collaborative Partnerships Toward Innovative, Tech-Enabled Teaching and Learning

What barriers and opportunities exist for the schools and teachers in introducing, incorporating, and implementing edtech and encouraging its use in the classroom? To what extent do support and professional development opportunities offered by the edtech venture (i.e., Kamkalima) influence the use and incorporation of the edtech tool in and outside the classroom? How do […]

January 10, 2024
Research Studies

Qatar’s Edtech Testbed: Building Collaborative Partnerships for Innovative Teaching and Learning Outcomes

Download the report EdTech, or educational technology, refers to the use of technology to enhance and support learning. EdTech testbeds are essentially environments where new EdTech tools and approaches can be developed and tested in a controlled setting. These testbeds allow educators and researchers to experiment with different technologies and pedagogical approaches to determine their effectiveness in […]

December 13, 2022
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Research Studies

Piloting Qatar’s First Edtech TestBed: The Journey Towards Best Practice, Sustainable Partnerships and Innovation

When you think about technology in the classroom, what comes to mind? Over the last three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital learning has accelerated –virtual calls, online collaboration and the more frequent utilization of educational technology (edtech) platforms are all normal components of classroom learning today. Edtech has certainly proliferated over the last few […]

December 9, 2021

EdTech Testbed Educators

Sandra

Fatima Abou Najm

Angela Skinner

Shaza Ahmed

Alexandra Killham

Kathleen McKim

Hala Fawzi Elsayed

Faten Bassam Ghanem

EdTech Testbed Partner Schools

Benchmarking Report

In order to better understand EdTech Testbeds and how it could be applied to the Qatar context, we have put together a report that highlights the potential for Qatar to lead a regional testbed network.

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