No doubt about it: there’s a super hero in the classroom now – one who’s set to save education in the U.S.
For answers to its national budget bust, education is turning to tech.
Why?
With a $2.5 billion – yes, that’s a b: billion – funding gap on the doorstep of the U.S. Department of Education, schools are bulking up class sizes while being forced to cut back on individual courses and resources.
In addition, tuition is skyrocketing, and enrollment competition is fierce.
How to keep costs down for students and schools while keeping teachers in their jobs? Turn it online.
“There’s a bevy of startups in this space that are looking to help students, parents, teachers, and also school districts combat this dilemma. And so, while the community is battling with its local government for funding, it appears tech companies are leveraging their know-how to keep the train going, so to speak,” says The Next Web’s latest report.
Spurning the natural merge between education and tech is the mastery of the industry by those under 25. In fact, according to OnLineColleges.net:
• Educational institutions are continuing to adopt cloud-based technologies;
• eBooks continue to replace traditional textbooks;
• Video game-based learning is becoming continuously more effective;
• 3D printers are becoming more popular in education environments; and
• 93 percent of students who own phones use them to send text messages.
Online learning platforms: The next super hero of education?
It certainly looks that way.
Cautionary note, though: Many tech startups have surfaced to fill the gap … or, at least, small pieces of the full bridge that will finally cross it. Some provide tools for just the virtual classroom; some provide those better suited for educational departments. Others offer ways to share information between students and teachers; still more have products geared toward administration.
Increasingly, though, what schools are looking for is an entire “online campus” experience. For colleges, that means providing tools that simultaneously serve students, faculty, administration and all of the campus groups and facilities. For school districts, that means a platform that can be shared by all those involved in the K-12 network.
Now, we reveal the real super hero of education: iQ Technologies.
Looking for an “entire online campus,” at any level? Or, any combination of pieces to fit what you do?
Check out iQ. That’s just what we do. Saving the day – your way.