The need for edtech in higher education

  • Date: 26-Aug-2021
  • Source: Wamda
  • Sector:Education
  • Country:UAE
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The need for edtech in higher education

Brendan Vyner, is the director of marketing and student recruitment at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. 



Covid-19 has unequivocally transformed every aspect of our world today. While the pandemic continues to rage with varying intensity across the globe, the education sector has undergone dramatic shifts and continues to evolve. From an academic perspective, social distancing of students and teachers has meant that educational institutions needed to pivot rapidly from traditional methods of teaching and interaction to new, digital ones. According to UNESCO, about 91 per cent of the student population has been affected worldwide due to the coronavirus. 



Despite the challenges it poses to universities and other educational institutions, the pandemic serves as a unique opportunity to advance education by more than a decade through leveraging tools and resources that educators had no access to earlier. Institutions – both local and global – have had to step up their efforts to digitally transform their strategies and techniques to ensure seamless online classes. These convenient tools and techniques are set to continue driving our efforts to make education future-ready. 



The rise of edtech



Today’s classrooms look vastly different from the classrooms of two years ago and tomorrow’s are set