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Future technology trends

School management
We asked industry expert Martin McKay to give us six worldwide trends that we can expect to see more of in the UK education sector.

Learning analytics is already a big trend in schools. One interesting opportunity that detailed learning analytics creates, is payment by results.

Imagine an educational technology company who has the confidence in their product to say, for example: “If your students spend one hour per week using our courseware, and we cannot demonstrate a learning improvement you will not have to pay for the software.”

The software can track student’s time on task, and their demonstrated learning improvement. It is good for publishers, teacher and students. The learning improvement could be showing mastery of a skill, a demonstration of gained knowledge, an improvement in grammar or sentence length, comprehension etc.

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