{"id":71014,"date":"2020-06-12T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71014"},"modified":"2020-06-12T09:53:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:53:31","slug":"the-post-pandemic-outlook-for-edtech-koenig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/06\/12\/the-post-pandemic-outlook-for-edtech-koenig\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech [Koenig]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2020-06-11-the-post-pandemic-outlook-for-edtech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from edsurge.com by Rebecca Koenig<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Never before have schools and colleges so urgently needed digital tools and services to facilitate remote learning\u2014and been less able to afford them.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nConsumer edtech, then, may be where the market is hottest moving forward. And experts say a new key audience has emerged in the sector: parents. Many have been thrust\u2014begrudgingly\u2014into the role of homeschool teacher, and they\u2019re looking for ways to keep kids on track academically that don\u2019t require them to spend hours brushing up on fractions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u201cThe new audience for edtech companies, whether they sell directly to consumers or not, is the parent. That\u2019s a major and permanent change,\u201d he explains. \u201cWhether it\u2019s needed all the time or not, it needs to be built in.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8212; Frank Catalano<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Online Tutoring Services<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s been a hot few years for companies that connect students with tutors who teach online. Between 2016 and 2019, online tutoring services raised more than $1.2 billion in venture capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech &#8212; from edsurge.com by Rebecca Koenig Excerpts: For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Never before have schools and colleges so urgently needed digital tools and services to facilitate remote learning\u2014and been less able to afford them. &#8230; Consumer edtech, then, may be where the market is hottest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,115,302,286,346,343,347,32,210,141,177,37,35,3,373,391,180,64,46,825,510,560,321,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blended-learning","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-digital-learning","category-distance-education","category-education","category-education-reform","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-expectations","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-innovation","category-it-in-he","category-k-12-related","category-law-schools","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-parents-guardians","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71018,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71014\/revisions\/71018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}