Education 2.0 & 3.0

The global edtech market has witnessed a heave of development, in recent past.

 

It is expected to grow by 17% on an annual basis over the next years to reach USD 252 billion by 2020. This expansion is nonetheless unequally shared between developed and emerging countries.

Many new as well as established stakeholders and companies are showing interest in edtech business and are initiating for a start-up. These start-ups alike other budding businesses, require favorable aura, supportive public and private investments, pre-existing infrastructure, demographics, supportive public and private investments and potential synergies with corporate partners.

Via Elizabeth E Charles

At its most basic level, a startup is a learning machine—one that helps its founders understand and serve the real world in a manner that enables itself to continuously gather information and grow. If it doesn’t learn and adjust, a startup ends.

Successful students, like startups, are those who are resilient, constantly absorbing new information and challenging their assumptions.

 

We’re not surprised, then, to see a proliferation of startup and entrepreneurial programs springing up in and around K-12 schools. What’s more, an entrepreneurial culture, carefully scaffolded, can help schools transform and unlock learning in ways that more traditional coursework can not.

 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Startups

 

 

Via Gust MEES, Dean J. Fusto