Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Datamonitor
Published: November 2006
Product Code: R313-18312Description Introduction
In an effort to balance competing and contradictory demands, education institutions are becoming increasingly judicious and strategic about purchasing technology that supports teaching and learning.
Scope- Identifies the key forces driving education institutions to invest in technology for teaching and learning
- Analyzes the crucial issues that will impede the uptake of educational technology
- Predicts how the market for educational technology will change over time
Highlights
The landscape for educational technology is evolving rapidly in the education market.
Different, and oftentimes contradictory, forces drive the uptake of educational technology.
Significant factors impede the more substantive adoption of educational technology.
Reasons to Purchase- Understand the market factors influencing investments in technology today and in the future
- Align corporate messaging with the specific pain points of institutional end users
- Develop a deep knowledge of market trends in order to develop more effective product development strategies
Table of Contents - DATAMONITOR VIEW
- CATALYST
- SUMMARY
- METHODOLOGY
- ANALYSIS
- The landscape for educational technology is evolving rapidly in the education market
- A complex set of forces drives the uptake of educational technology
- Government policies are driving more educators to tailor their instruction to the individual needs of students
- Important constituency groups expect to see technology used in the classroom
- There is a growing belief that the millennial generation prefers learning with the support of technology
- As the baby boom generation retires, the next generation of teachers will only know a digital world
- Online learning offers a solution to the challenge of increasing access while maintaining costs
- Significant factors impede the more substantive adoption of educational technology
- Popular support has waned for using technology as a tool to reform education institutions
- New governmental priorities are impeding the adoption of educational technology
- Technology purchases must compete with other priorities for increasingly scarce budgetary resources
- Moving to the next level of technology adoption requires significant and difficult behavioral changes
- Educators will become increasingly sophisticated consumers of educational technology
- The most appealing solutions will provide compelling evidence of their effectiveness
- Seeking the benefits of standardization, institutions will migrate from point to enterprise-wide solutions
- The acceptance of vendor-hosted solutions and other delivery options will grow in the market
- ACTIONS
- Vendors must seek out and support the third-party evaluation of their solutions
- Innovative pricing strategies will help put new technology into the hands of educators
- APPENDIX
- Definitions
- Extended mehodology
- Further reading
- Ask the analyst
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Accessibility to the Internet for instructional purposes has grown rapidly in the US K12 market
- Figure 2: IT spending in the education market will grow at a somewhat austere rate over the next five years
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