Why does edtech fail to innovate to solve it's needs, but just use innovations from other fields?
Edtech doesn't seem to drive innovation internally. In fact, what is claimed to be innovative and disruptive in edtech tends to be even larger failures.
It seems like edtech that has provided value, are innovations from other fields.
- Projectors (business presentations)
- LMSs (information systems)
- Notes like Notion, (organisational knowledge management)
- ...
Edtech academia on the technical side has had a lot of funding over the years, but even after creating so many intelligent tutoring systems and learning analytics, they tend not to provide much value in practice.