May 28, 2024 | By Hannah Cheever and Charles Harding
The shift to online learning due to COVID-19 appears here to stay – with a lasting increase in the share of undergraduate students enrolled in online courses. Critical in these online courses is the use of technology. When used effectively, new edtech products can enhance the student experience and instructor effectiveness in a number of ways, including enhancing discussion board interactions, enabling multi-media interactivity, increasing the scaffolding of instruction and materials to meet student needs among many others.
Despite the potential for evidence-based edtech products to have high impact in online instruction, there is often a disconnect between research, practitioner, and developer communities. At the Collaborative, we aim to help bridge this disconnect with conversation series with people involved in these fields.
Members of the Postsecondary Collaborative spoke with Meaghan Duff and David Yaskin to discuss scaling evidence-based edtech in postsecondary education. Duff is vice president of programs at Minerva Project, where she leads learning innovation strategy design and implementation. Yaskin is CEO coach and consultant at Ed Tech Coaching, founder of Starfish Retention Solutions, a leading provider of enterprise student success platforms to postsecondary institutions. He also ran Blackboard’s product strategy.
Part 1: How Can EdTech be a Tool for Equity?
In this blog post, Duff and Yaskin debate whether and how digital learning products can be designed with equity at the center.
Part 2: Who are the Customers for EdTech Innovations?
In this second blog post, Duff and Yaskin discuss how entrepreneurs can think about who their customers are and what needs they should focus on when trying to break into a new market.
Part 3: What Strategies Can EdTech Developers Use to Successfully Launch a New Innovation Based on Research?
In this third blog post, Duff and Yaskin offer some strategies they have used to launch successful edtech products and help create a new market.
Stay tuned for more conversations!
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