School IT leaders can make smarter tech purchasing decisions when they consider the impact and value these tools have on teaching and learning. Long gone are the days of overhead projectors and ...
I was dismayed to recently encounter this headline in The New York Times: “Dependence on Tech Caused ‘Staggering’ Education Inequality, U.N. Agency Says.” The Times story highlighted a UNESCO report ...
Educational technology, or ed-tech, shares some crucial similarities with fintech. In both markets, products and services are sold across B2B, B2C, or B2G models, and both markets draw on data (and ...
On a return flight from Tokyo to Detroit, I impulsively downloaded the Duolingo app. As a professor of education practice, I had just attended an educational technology conference and was inspired by ...
K-12, higher ed and adult learning education spaces have changed dramatically in the five years since the most recent National Education Technology Plan (NETP) was created in 2017 by the U.S.
How will evolutions in education technology impact schools and districts in the coming year? Here's what the experts told us. In any time, the new year is both a time of hope and uncertainty. But in ...
The nation’s K-12 education sector is heavily invested in educational technology. In 2020 alone, it spent $35.8 billion on technology, mainly to power the massive shift to online learning required ...
The layoffs of staff serving in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET) are a profound loss for the nation’s education system. For over 30 years, OET provided ...
Remember InBloom, the $100 million initiative, largely funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to aggregate student data and learning tools and allow teachers to individualize instruction? Or ...
Held in Chicago, this year’s event tackles how educational technology can foster collaboration, innovation and safer learning environments to improve student outcomes.
In any time, the new year is both a time of hope and uncertainty. But in 2025, one might argue that uncertainty looms larger than usual: With ESSER funding set to expire, education budgets may be in ...