Technology has been reshaping traditional educational interactions around the world. Innovation in EdTech is ubiquitous and is changing how teaching and learning happens
Technology is transforming not only broad teaching-learning interactions, but also the granular actions within them (for e.g. how and when feedback is received by a learner)
EdTech innovations have been able to achieve reasonable scale fairly rapidly, reaching teachers, students, and parents worldwide
Continuously catalyzing innovation to strengthen and build on value offerings (such as building teacher capacity) is essential for meaningful EdTech adoption
Edtech innovations have proliferated in a range of contexts, from developed to developing countries, leveraging technologies along the spectrum from radio to AI
White spaces exist across the teaching-learning spectrum for EdTech, however, the pandemic and mounting global evidence has spurred considerable growth in the sector
This document aims to provide a deeper understanding of how innovations in EdTech have redesigned multiple teaching and learning interactions across varying contexts around the world led by the following stakeholders – teachers, students, and parents.
To demystify the innovations in the EdTech landscape, the following approach was adopted -
Some of the sources examined to identify the most promising EdTech innovations, as of October 2020
Nine teaching-learning interactions prioritized spanning across the three primary stakeholders - teachers, students, and parents.
Technology reduces teacher effort to create engaging and personalized lesson plans
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Teacher prepares a plan to deliver the lesson
Technology allows for a teacher to transform into a coach who provides personalized instruction
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Teacher executes a lesson plan
Technology enables scalability and flexibility of TPD, providing teachers more ownership of their own growth
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Teachers engage in learning activities to strengthen and develop their own teaching practices
Technology reduces teachers’ time and effort to create, assign and ensure compliance for homework
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Teacher creates, assigns and corrects practice exercises to students in order to strengthen their understanding of concepts already taught in the classroom.
Teacher conducts assessments (formative and summative) to gauge students’ progress on learning to inform lesson planning and delivery
Technology enables a higher degree of personalization to individual student’s learning needs
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The student independently engages in obtaining knowledge or skills to either develop mastery or bridge learning gaps
Technology enables students to become increasingly independent in the doubt resolution process
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Student identifies doubts at any point in the learning process and attempts to resolve them both within the classroom and outside
Tech enables increased depth and quality of engagement between parents and teachers
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Parents engage with teachers and the school on their child’s holistic experience at school
Technology enables parents to provide increased level of learning support to their children
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Parents and family members support their child for continued learning at home
The analysis aims to highlight the diversity of EdTech innovations across developing and developed contexts. Some of the key themes sought through the analysis span (i) understanding how technology is leveraged within infrastructural constraints, (ii) exploring various EdTech hypotheses that have emerged to strengthen the teaching-learning processes, and (iii) evidence supporting the impact of the solutions.
Detailing the teaching - learning interaction into granular processes tounderstand the actions that technology can enhance
Mapping the diversity of solutions (including Indian government products) across the spectrums of technology, engagement, personalisation, effort
Delineating the key features of each category of products within each interaction to understand how technology has enhanced the interaction
Deep dive into an exciting within each interaction to showcase its technology, scale and evidence
