Open infrastructure.
Collective effort.
Built for impact.
We believe in deep collaboration across disciplines, connecting learning science, AI tool development, and classroom practice through shared expertise and co-building.
The co-building difference
Together, we’re creating shared public infrastructure
Our partnerships bring together researchers who study how students learn, the educators and technologists who translate that research into practice and products, and the funders who sustain this work. Together, we’re creating shared public infrastructure that makes proven teaching and learning practices more accessible and ensures technology truly serves all learners.
Partnering across the education ecosystem
Scale adoption of your work
Great research and content often remain locked in journals or inaccessible formats. Learning Commons structures and connects key education datasets into shared public infrastructure that makes your work easily accessible to educators and builders so it reaches classrooms and improves outcomes for students.
We partner with curriculum authors, educational nonprofits, researchers, and academic standards organizations to contribute foundational datasets, rubrics, and expertise that power our tools.
1EdTech is proud to partner with Learning Commons, grounded in a shared commitment to open infrastructure for the public good. Through this partnership, we will amplify the impact of the 1EdTech community’s work while integrating insights from Learning Commons to help shape and advance our collective efforts.
Curtiss Barnes, CEO
Learning Commons and Learning Tapestry collaborated to bring a best-in-class curriculum description language to the public, referencing Open Content Exchange, LRMI, and schema.org in the work.
Steve Midgeley, Managing Director And Founder
One of the best decisions we ever made was releasing our math learning components into the public domain — not just sharing IP, but betting that a stronger field would build a better future for kids. What I didn’t anticipate was how much would come back: the components have grown beyond what we contributed, deepening infrastructure we now use to power our own work. That’s what genuine public goods do — they compound.
Michelle Odemwingie, CEO
Accelerate tool development, with research and rigor
Developers face steep barriers accessing high quality curricula, state academic standards, and learning science research needed to build rigorous products. Our Knowledge Graph and Evaluators provide centralized infrastructure that simplifies this integration and improves your product quality. In return, your implementation insights and feedback shape our roadmap and create a cycle of mutual improvement that prioritizes students and benefits the entire ecosystem.
Learning Commons is making it easier for developers to build applications that are more robust and rigorous and in turn making it easier for educators and kids to do the kind of things that really advance teaching and learning.
Yusuf Ahmad, CEO
Partnering with Learning Commons on Knowledge Graph represents a pivotal step toward transforming math education. By developing research-grounded and educator-approved math knowledge components that can be embedded in edtech tools, we’re ensuring that AI meaningfully improves teaching and learning and empowers students at scale.
Sarah Johnson, CEO
Explore our tools for developers:
Ensure tools are grounded in what works
Districts want technology that truly supports teaching and learning—not tools that add complexity or misalign with instructional goals. But most edtech is built without deep classroom input, leaving educators to adopt products that don’t fit their reality. Learning Commons partners with you to co-design solutions from the ground up: pilot tools, share classroom insights, and shape development. This ensures what we build is practical, pedagogically sound, and aligned with your students’ needs.
PILOT PARTICIPANT
The Learning Commons Knowledge Graph has enabled us to build district-specific tools and assessments from the ground up. We’re excited to bring these custom applications to our students this fall.
Assistant Superintendent, Illinois
Create enduring system impact
Without shared foundations, edtech remains fragmented, with every organization building from scratch, and limited coordination on what teachers and students actually need cohesively. Learning Commons drives collaborative efforts to create open infrastructure that anyone can use and improve: datasets, evaluation tools, and resources that help educators and developers of all sizes, from small startups to large platforms, ground their work in learning science.
Alongside our philanthropic peers, we established the K-12 AI Infrastructure Program at Digital Promise to advance the accuracy and relevance of AI in education. The collective $26 million commitment will fund open education-specific datasets, algorithms, models, and benchmarks designed to align AI with the scientific principles of teaching and learning. At Learning Commons, we will bring those datasets and benchmarks into public infrastructure, making them readily accessible to developers and educators.
Ready to explore partnership?
Whether you’re a district leader looking to co-build, a developer ready to take your tools to the next level, a researcher or organization looking to scale your knowledge and data, or a funder interested in supporting this work—we’d love to hear from you.