During the covid-19 pandemic, technologies that benefited the most are the tools that allow education or allow education resources to be provided during the remote school period. According to the 2021 Changing Landscape of Online Education Report or CHLOE for short, the technology with the greatest gain is video conferencing tools, such as Blackboard Collaborate, Skype, and Zoom. By the end of 2021, video conferencing tools are projected to be 87 percent mainstream, which is a huge leap compared to the 51 percent in 2019.
CHLOE is a report written by the organizations Quality Matters and Eduventures Research, and it is an annual survey of chief dedicated to the structure and organization of the United States higher education system. In 2021, the report included results from 422 U.S colleges and universities, as a result, it has a good picture of how the pandemic can impact the future of education.
According to CHLOE, all edtech segments "saw a significant reduction in institutional non-participation" in 2021. Most segments are expected to have their non-participation dropped to 20 percent in the post-pandemic era. Therefore, technologies like virtual labs, open educational resources, assessment integrity technologies, accessibility tools, video recording and distribution tools, videoconferencing, textbooks/materials, and learning management systems are expected to be adopted or at least partially adopted by about 80 percent of institutions.
The result from the report is clear, the pandemic has successfully pushed schools of all types to many forms of educational technology, and covid-19 has closed the technology adaptation gap faster than anything that came before it.
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2021/06/08/how-the-pandemic-boosted-ed-tech-adoption.aspx
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