Results & Impact

   REALITY CHECK

Even though the Educathon should not be about feasability but creativity / innovation, ideas are often being checked for feasability after the event has ended. If there is a chance to implement some of the ideas pitched in the Educathon, it can help to build a Feasability Committee, as proposed here.
Other helpful material for a “reality check” can be found here.

After doing a “reality check”, you can select one or a few of the strongest ideas and test them in a reallife environment. This helps you understand whether an idea actually works outside the Educathon setting.

Running pilots also shows participants that their work can lead to real change! Even small pilots with limited resources can create valuable learning and momentum.

You can turn the ideas and stories into reports, showcases, or communication campaigns. Sharing results publicly can help attract partners, supporters, and potential funders!

It also gives recognition to participants and strengthens collaborative engagement.

Visible outcomes further increase the long-term value and credibility of the Educathon. Use Social Media, your website, an internal platform, … to showcase not only your results, but also the process!

The ideas pitched and discussions held in an Educathon can reveal skill gaps, new topic areas, or structural challenges for both learners and hosts. This makes Educathon outcomes valuable for shaping future training/, learning programs, or strategy work (e.g. in school development settings).

You can analyze which competencies participants needed most and where support was missing. In this way, the Educathon becomes a diagnostic tool for (organizational) learning.

All presented ideas can be documented and fed into your personal or organization’s strategic or innovation processes. Not
every idea needs to be implemented immediately, but many may become relevant later!

By clustering and reviewing ideas regularly, you keep them alive and usable. This also helps decision-makers identify patterns, needs, and emerging themes.

Educathon results can highlight real needs, barriers, and opportunities directly from people working or learning in the system: This makes them useful as qualitative evidence for policy discussions, strategy papers, or reform processes.

Policymakers can use documented ideas and pitches from the teams to identify priority areas for change. When structured well, Educathon outputs can even complement research data by adding lived experience and practice-based insight!

Literatur

• Wikipedia: Digitale Kompetenz. Online verfügbar unter: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitale_Kompetenz. Letzter Abruf: 25.02.2025.