Adaptive Learning: The driver for the schools of the future

Adaptive Learning: The driver for the schools of the future

As teachers and administrators strive to improve student performance and graduation rates, they're increasingly leveraging new Educational Technology (EdTech) to deliver a higher quality learning experience. To gain a competitive advantage, EdTech market players are integrating advanced technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and Blockchain that are set to be the largest revenue contributors to the education sector in the coming years.

In the UAE, 1.2 million school and university students started their e-learning journey a year ago with the onset of the pandemic, which has fueled the surge of EdTech startups.

The EdTech sector has been gaining significant momentum, leading to an acceleration of investments in 2020. For instance, the regional EdTech companies raised almost $4m in March last year. Also, according to Report Linker, the EdTech and smart classroom market in the Middle East and Africa region is expected to reach $1m by 2027 with a CAGR of 9.8 per cent from 2020 to 2027.

Meanwhile, GCC governments have been digitising the education sector by integrating multiple Arab educational resources on websites, platforms and applications, in collaboration with EdTech experts, for students and teachers to access.

However, despite the EdTech innovations, the traditional "one-size-fits-all“