#221 – What Matters in Edtech: Future Tech and Trends
This episode returns to the topic of future tech and trends in education, with one big consensus point across all our guests; collaboration, emotional learning and motivation.
This episode returns to the topic of future tech and trends in education, with one big consensus point across all our guests; collaboration, emotional learning and motivation.
After graduating with my MA in Education & Technology at UCL, way back in 2018, I was itching to develop a programme that combined my interests in 21st Century skills, project-based learning and creative thinking, using technology in a pragmatic way to help people develop or upskill to be future-ready, life-long learners….
On this first episode of 2021, we are talking to the inspirational Dr Alex Young at Virti about the power of immersive tools to enhance learning and improve performance, especially in socially distanced settings.
Musings from Sophie Bailey on the positives and challenges that have come out of 2020 for edtech and what it might mean going forward for the next evolution of edtech.
In this episode, we ask the question, what is the role of social impact investing in workforce development?
The Edtech Podcast is in conversation with an investor and an analyst tracking the future of workforce development markets. It covers the gig economy, the problem of regional disparity and the role of technology, including AI, in helping us find jobs and thrive once we are in them.
The episode seeks to address the impact of radical digital transformation which has taken place in 2020 and where this leaves Higher Education going forward.
VocTech Now was part of Ufi’s response to support the vocational learning sector in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this episode, you’ll hear stories from three colleges on Further Education challenges they faced during 2020, how their collaboration with Voctech Now has had a positive impact and we delve into some of the lessons they have learnt along the way.
This episode was part of Ufi Voctech Trust’s ‘Week of Voctech’ and looks at some of the projects Ufi Voctech Trust have been supporting that are involved in vocational education across the criminal justice system. You’ll hear about providing access to learning environments, tailoring and adapting learning, assessing learning and creating employment opportunities.
In this episode of the VocTech Podcast, we’ll be chatting with guests to discuss the near and long-term future for vocational technology and further education. This episode was hosted live as part of Ufi VocTech Trust’s ‘Week of VocTech’.
In this episode, we look at the future of work experiment that is 2020 and interrogate some of the forecasts for the future of work now that many of them have come true.