2021 Edtech - The Butter-Spread Of Learning Beyond K-12

CIOReviewIndia Team | Monday, 04 January 2021, 11:27 IST

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The Covid-pandemic under the business helmet has created a sharp change in the edtech industry. Now, the Indian edtech market is calculated to reach $3.5 billion by the year 2022. In the following years, the edtech, however, will not be limited to the K-12 space. It will upspring ahead of K12 and include skill development and learning management systems. 

In particular, for K12 space, the crisis has been a gen-evolver. There is a remarkable shift in the attitude for adaptation of online medium for education and learning in the previous year with individual students, schools, colleges, and tuitions in total.

2021 Trends of Edtech Space

Ever Expansion Of Online Learning – There is massive amounts of capital in the Indian online learning market, which is predicted to continue for the next couple of years. Stats suggest that there is an increase in the number of users opting for online learning and increased engagement on online platforms.

Access To High-Quality Content – Perishing Geographic with technology evolution will grant access to quality learning content to all.

Implementation Of Immersive Technologies – Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality explained to be used for effective and amplify learning experience and nurture focus.

Adaptive Assessments – This will help in the identification of learning gaps and gain wider acceptance of power learning tools for more efficient, invigorating, and stupendous results.

Data-Driven Insights – Higher use of analytics will help students in overwhelming grade achievement, which will prove education to be meaningful.

Education Being Personalized – Personalized learning produces somewhat the best results. And now technology enables content to be delivered in a manner that is suitable according to a student’s requisites.

Engaging and Joyful Classrooms - Now, teachers will not be involved in wasting time on administrative tasks, rather they will be focused on students' requirements along the way of imparting an enriched curriculum.

Learning Through Gamification – Terms like incentive-based learning or a badge after each successful level will become more common. These types of gamification will be widely accepted for enhanced student engagement.

Online Tutoring, Language and Technology Skill-Centered Learning – These three measures will be witnessing a huge growth.

Courses-Based On Students’ Learning Variation – As online learning gained popularity, the designed courses make students in charge of their learning, and will be required to take active responsibility for their learning.

Lifelong Learning/Continuous Learning – There will be no restriction on learning according to a person’s age.

Collaborative Learning – Peer-based learning will become more prominent.

The pandemic has a positive effect on edtech products and services. It has also increased the requirement of a deep and relatively fast-penetration of high-speed internet and smartphones.

As the younger generation drives the adoption of edtech products, there will also be an arising cause of skill development in the edtech revolution.