During my tenure as a district educational technology director, we became pretty good at reviewing and selecting classroom technology hardware. We developed a thorough committee process that included ...

Some parents and lawmakers argue laptops in classrooms are “poisoning kids.” Education technology leaders say taking them away could set schools back decades.

Districts throw away millions of dollars on educational technology that never gets used. By requiring training and putting companies on the hook financially, Utah has devised a better way Last year, ...

Evaluating the usage of ed-tech products is tricky, complicated, and oftentimes confusing. But it can be done. Consider the case of the Granite County school district in Utah. It partnered with a ...

For all the challenges that came with COVID-19 school closures, they may have been a boon to the market for educational technology. According to the research firm the Learning Counsel, K-12 districts ...

The past two years have been a tumultuous period for ed tech: never has so much been spent on so many devices in so few months. But now that more children - and teachers - have access to more ...

Early in 2018, ed-tech company Clever launched a new product aimed at helping tens of thousands of schools tackle a vexing challenge: determining whether students are actually using the software and ...

At least since the Clinton era, the education technology sector has often been hailed as a catalyst that will fundamentally transform global education systems. As of 2023, the market had ballooned to ...

Every few months, a new study claims that gadgets in the classroom don’t improve learning—but that hasn’t stopped the educational technology market’s steady upward climb. The ed-tech market totaled $8 ...

When evaluating which ed tech tools to adopt, evidence of impact is one of the most important factors to consider. At the highest level, ed tech should be chosen based on its ability to improve ...

Technological tools, ranging from text-to-speech apps to audio-enhancing receivers, are being used more and more by schools to make content readily available to students with hearing and vision loss.

Do you work in ed tech higher ed sales? My goal in this post is to start a discussion, with the result of the larger IHE community gaining a better understanding of the world of an ed tech sales ...