With less than four per cent of worldwide education budgets being spent on tech, explore why you should invest in EdTech with Weduc
You don’t need us to tell you that September and October are some of the busiest months for head teachers and key decision makers in schools. However, planning ahead for the next year is imperative, and far-reaching decisions need to be made quickly whilst factoring in innumerable variables.
The education sector has been described as ‘grossly under digitised’, with less than four per cent of worldwide education budgets being spent on tech.[i]
But with EdTech rapidly reaching greater and greater heights – the sector is set to be worth $404bn globally by 2025, more than two and a half times global EdTech expenditure in 2019[ii] – it’s worth giving some serious thought to the following questions:
What problems could EdTech help you solve now?
Are you using your current technology as effectively as you could be?
And what could EdTech offer your school in the future?
From staff retention and providing the right pupil experience, to school safety, educational inclusivity, and parental engagement, EdTech could help you address a whole range of consistent pain points for schools and MATs.
That’s why we’ve created our extensive guide ‘The Outlook for EdTech’, using insights based on the latest trends, government research, and our specialist knowledge of the EdTech sector. It will help you ask important questions, address some of the key issues mentioned above, and formulate a strategy that ensures the best outcomes for students, whatever the future brings.
Back to basics: defining EdTech and barriers to use
Reviewing the definition provided by the Department for Education for what EdTech should look like and then reviewing key findings from a survey conducted with over 5,000 teachers on the barriers they face.
Is your school making the most of EdTech?
Understanding the impacts COVID-19 made on the use of technology within schools, why it may be worth revisiting your EdTech ecosystem. Touching on automating processes, saving teachers value time, enhancing the pupil experience, improving inclusivity, maximising safety and boosting parental engagement.
What’s on the horizon?
Looking ahead to what is on the horizon and what can education providers could utilise to enhance their tech stacks from AI, Blockchain, Virtual and Augmented Reality (VAR), and social robots.
The inclusivity issue
Learning how technology can break down issues that hinder those pupils with chronic illnesses, learning difficulties, or disabilities.
EdTech and parental engagement
Understanding how utilising EdTech can enhance and increase communication levels as well as engagement with parents, pupils, carers and other stakeholders.
Key principles of EdTech success
Discussing what the key principles of success should look like for school and Multi-Academy Trust leaders.
We hope you find our guide useful, and you can access it by clicking here.
Discover the future of EdTech with Weduc
At Weduc, we believe that making the most of EdTech is all about communication. Whether that’s proactive, engaged school leaders empowering their teachers. Future-thinking schools reaching out to parents and carers. Or inspiring teachers connecting with their students in new and exciting ways.
That’s why we created the Weduc platform. To fire up the communications of primary schools, secondary schools, trusts and independent schools. And give them the freedom to reach new heights.
Communicate Use the Weduc platform to communicate with all your audiences across email, SMS, your school website, app, and social media. All at the same time. At the touch of a button.
Integrate
Bring all your systems under one roof for parents to access. Communication, learning, payments and admin – all wrapped up in your own custom-branded school app.
Liberate
Tailor the Weduc platform to suit your needs and grow with you. Freeing up teachers to do more of what they do best.
If you have any queries about its contents, EdTech, or parental engagement in general, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. You can do this by calling us at +44(0) 1509 221 349 or emailing us at [email protected].
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