Developments in Educational Technology (EdTech) have been major accelerators of innovation in education over the past few decades. Research universities and universities of applied sciences are actively shaping their digital transformation, though each is doing so in its own way and at its own pace. Educational institutions are complex purchasing organisations. This causes high entry costs for new EdTech providers that wish to enter this market and high development costs for established EdTech companies and high costs and failure rates for institutions experimenting with new EdTech products and services. The working group EdTech for educational innovation is working to remove some of these obstacles.
The working group works to enable institutions within higher education to make room for educational innovation with EdTech, thus contributing to a stronger innovation culture. The working group wishes to contribute to institutions being better equipped to utilise the benefits of technology so Dutch (and European) EdTech companies can continue to innovate for the benefit of education. The working group will focus its efforts work on three major projects in 2022:
Since the summer of 2021, the working group has been working on building an active EdTech Community. This community consists of people from higher education and EdTech suppliers. The importance of the community is crystal clear: to make cooperation between institutions, and between institutions and EdTech companies, more effective. With the community, the working group wants to stimulate exchange, inspiration, and boost the content of the goals. The main goal is to better connect EdTech companies to the needs and expectations of the educational sector. Would you like to participate in the EdTech Community? Take a look at our invitation to join the community.
With this project, the working group provides insight into the innovation and experimentation processes that higher education institutions go through in order to get started with new tools and providers. First, they will make a case study overview presenting the existing processes of a number of universities of applied sciences. They will map out what the innovation process with EdTech looks like for these institutions. They will share these descriptions through an initial publication. Based on these results, they will then create a model that will provide insight into how this innovation process is structured in an ideal situation and which components it should include. Finally, they want to create a number of tools in the form of building blocks with tips, tricks and recommendations that institutions can use to make specific improvements to their innovation process.
Startup in Residence is a proven method by which public institutions can enter into innovation partnerships in a flexible manner with small businesses, social enterprises, and startups, creating new collaborations in co-creation. This working group has set up a pilot with SURF and a number of institutions to experience how this programme can contribute to strengthening the innovative capacity of Dutch higher education. Startup in Residence EdTech will use co-creation and innovative procurement to facilitate more intensive collaboration between innovative EdTech startups and higher education. The aim is that, after a successful first edition, this approach will become part of the services provided by SURF to the institutions. Want to know more about this project? Take a look at the Startup in Residence EdTech page.
Did your team just finish a cool experiment with EdTech within an educational institution? Are you in the middle of
Een samenwerking van een half jaar om een oplossing te bouwen voor een uitdaging uit het onderwijs van een hogere onderwijsinstelling.
Within Fontys they reduce the EdTech process from sixteen weeks to one week. How? You can read it in this blog.
“We use Edtech as a means, not an end” In mid-July, the working group EdTech for educational innovation started. It
If you have any questions about the EdTech working group, please contact: edtech@versnellingsplan.nl
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