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2020 Vision
THE EDTECH TRENDS TO WATCH IN 2020
1 I 2020 VISION: THE EDTECH TRENDS TO WATCH IN 2020
See edtech
clearly in
2020
Education is being disrupted. Not in the future,
Contents
but right now.
If you’re an educator, administrator or leader in
primary school, high school, university or college,
edtech isn’t a hypothetical concept or buzz word,
it refers to tools that you depend on in the here 4 Blended learning: the new black
and now. It’s shaping your students’ experiences. How technology will optimise face to
You may see it as a great opportunity, you might face experiences, not replace them
be excited. You may be experimenting or even
building your own tech solutions. But if you’re 6 Making data human
like many education professionals, you are also How best to use data to enhance
experiencing frustration, loss of productivity, students’ learning experiences
uncertainty and information overload.
8 Personalisation
Edtech and all of its possibilities are nothing
without the educator whose job it is to apply them. How technology is learning to intuit
Educators and education leaders like you drive student’s needs and behaviours
student outcomes forward and edtech is the vehicle.
10 Making edtech work for you
So how can edtech expand and enrich learning? In 2020, edtech will be a powerful
How do you integrate it harmoniously with traditional enabler for students and teachers
teaching modalities? How do you discern between
the tools that will offer your students real value and 11 Acknowledgments
the ones which are just going to slow you down?
How the Canvas community
Our research, our customer’s innovations and empowered this eBook
their vision for the future of education can help to
answer these questions. Read on to learn more 12 Get in touch
about 3 important edtech developments that we Contact Canvas to learn how your
believe will impact education in 2020 and beyond. LMS could empower you in 2020
2 I 2020 VISION
Blended learning
is the new black
With over 1,000 online education providers in Australia, generating over
$3.3 billion in revenue*, blended learning is becoming big business.
At CanvasCon Sydney 2019, Instructure’s would no longer need to go to school Faculty and teachers will teach
premier edtech event in Australia, or university to get their education. Fast students to become self-guided
educators, technologists and educational forward to 2020 and we know that’s not learners
71%
leaders from across Australia and indeed, true. What’s more, we’re faced with a
the APAC region gathered to learn and new problem. A digital world that’s full of The responsibility to empower students to
share how the latest developments distraction, the new currency is focus and teach themselves is falling to educators.
in education technology are making credibility is king. It’s learning that goes beyond the course
teaching and learning easier and better. syllabus, a lifelong practice to be developed
Technology will never be as powerful as and maintained for survival - just like
Educators shared how they are using human intention. In 2020 your students exercise or a healthy diet. of university teaching staff
blended learning to create better will continue to succeed because prefer blended learning
experiences for their students and of your mentoring, motivation and This means empowering students with
over traditional face to face
offload administrative tasks to their LMS, support. Edtech is going to get better at confidence to self-guide their learning. It starts
which makes it easier to focus on what supporting you, helping you to amplify with using your LMS but extends as far as: - Eduquas report, Teaching and technology 2019
they do best - teaching. your influence and engage with students,
in more ways, more often. / Maintaining focus/managing distractions.
Technology will optimise / Self-identifying knowledge gaps and
face-to-face experiences, 3 tasks that edtech can knowing how to fill them.
not replace them automate: / Distinguishing between credible content
*IBISWorld Industry Report X0008, Online Education in Australia, 2017
vs sponsored or commercially supported,
When learning experiences became 1 / Reminding students to submit their
propaganda and fake news.
digital experiences, some commentators assignments (more on this later)
leapt to the conclusion that students / Knowing limitations and when to delegate
2 / Identifying students who are falling or ask for help.
behind on their coursework, so that
/ Practicing self-care/managing screen time.
‘Technology will you can counsel them in real life
(more on this later)
/ Prioritising/setting personal learning goals.
never be as powerful 3 / Keeping parents up to date on
Blended learning will cultivate lifelong
as human intention’ student performance, scores and
learning skills for students that will be vital
attendance (more on this also)
to survival in the workplaces of the future.
4 I 2020 VISIONMaking
data human
In 2020, with greater integration of LMS’
and in many cases, total adoption across ‘The dashboard is
whole institutions, valuable data will be
generated and stored, including test
used as a tool to St Dominic’s has also created a
dashboard especially for parents, to
scores, study patterns, learning habits,
areas of interest, hours and times of
support teachers give them a real-time view of their
child’s performance. Since offering this
engagement, attendance patterns and in counselling dashboard they have seen parents
more. With all of this data comes great become much more engaged in their
power, but also great responsibility. students through child’s learning, which in turn has
How best to use data to enhance sparked an uplift in student scores.
students’ learning experiences? any problem areas’
The parent dashboard also cuts down
St Dominic’s College in Sydney is a on administrative work for teachers,
school striving to make data human. as parents can check results as they
In their presentation at CanvasCon 2019, Collecting all of the data generated appear in real-time. It also means that if
St Dominic’s explained how they use data through these activities in one place a parent is proactive and engaged via
to help students and their parents make creates a powerful dashboard that the dashboard, there will be no nasty
gives a real-time view of student scores, surprises on parent-teacher night.
engagement and coursework.
‘With all of this data The most successful application of this What are other schools
data has been the student dashboard, saying about the use
comes great power, which gives students a real-time view of
their marks and other key performance of big data in edtech?
but also great indicators. They can access it easily
“We’ve found that our
at any time on their computer, iPad or
responsibility’ smartphone - enabling students to keep students have become really
track of their progress and to compare engaged with technology,
their results against averages for their it’s about trying to find that
cohort. The data is further humanised
better decisions. They have adopted
when the dashboard is used as a tool to
balance between too much
the Canvas LMS as the universal system technology and actually
support teachers in counselling students
to integrate with Microsoft Office for
all of their student’s coursework, tests, through any problem areas in their being able to utilise it.”
performance.
homework, activities and timetables. - Vicki, Cranbrook School, NSW
6 I 2020 VISIONPersonalisation “We’re utilising technology in a blended way so that we
can give students the best possible learning experience”
to support self-guided - Carly Milanovic, Senior Digital Media Designer, RMIT University Melbourne
learning In the classroom, some of the best educators
Giving students a nudge
At CanvasCon, keynote speaker Jared
The ‘nudge’ was a push notification sent
to their smartphone or desktop, reminding
are the ones that have a knack for intuiting them that their assignment deadline was
their students’ needs and adapting their Stein (VP Education Strategy, Instructure) coming up. The results of the pilot were -
approach to different learning styles, spoke about one of his team’s experiments
strengths, weaknesses and goals. There with personalisation. They knew that what • 10% lift in assignments submitted
is no one-size-fits-all approach, but students do on a day-to-day basis and how on time.
increasingly due to pressure on resources they reflect upon their own habits is key
• Teachers reported that their students
and growing class sizes, one-size-fits-all to achievement.
were more engaged than normal.
becomes the only feasible option.
They also knew that frequent assessments
From the pilot, the team learned that there
Imagine being supported by a system that support learning and that having activities
were three different types of students:
intelligently observes a student’s progress, to do early on builds good habits and
identifies talents and matches them to helps give teachers an idea of how 1 / Ones who hand things in early.
potential career pathways. How beneficial students are going.
might that information be to an educator 2 / Ones who leave it to the last minute
having a discussion with a student who and miss the deadline.
needs help making an important decision,
like which university course to apply for?
Hypothesis: students 3 / Ones who hand in on time for one
subject, but not another.
Or consider a student that has their heart will be more likely to
set on being a vet, but that isn’t meeting For a student who falls into the first camp
the mark. With personalisation, the student turn something in if and has already handed their assignment
could set their intention early and be
promoted with resources and extra tasks we give them a nudge. in, a nudge could be annoying. So,
the next iteration of nudge is further
to help them reach their goal. personalising the experience by learning
what type of student they are and how
Edtech is only beginning to scratch the So they created the ‘nudge,’ a pilot that best to nudge them.
surface of personalisation. This technology tested this hypothesis:
is not immediately available yet, but here Students in the nudge pilot also required
at Canvas, Instructure, we’re excited about “Will students be more likely to turn less administrative support, freeing
where we can take this technology in 2020. something in if we give them a nudge?” educators up to teach more and nag less.
2020 VISION I 9How to make edtech It takes
work for you a village
Creating a more human student experience will be a process of
continuous improvement.
How the Canvas community
empowered this publication
In 2020, edtech will continue to advance How are others making
and support students as more educators
and institutions begin to experiment, test
edtech work for them? This eBook was made possible by the
thousands of educators that make up the
hypotheses and push the boundaries. In a
space where there is so much opportunity “We can put all of the technology Canvas community who continue to drive
in front of the students, but the success of Canvas.
ultimately teachers need to drive A special thanks to the following
‘There is so much the use of that technology in the contributers of this eBook:
classroom.”
opportunity for growth / The attendees and presenters
at CanvasCon 2019
- Vicki, Cranbrook School, NSW
and innovation’ / Carly Milanovic, RMIT, VIC
/ Vicki Hounslow, Cranbrook School, NSW
for growth and innovation, players in the
/ David Sheil, St Dominic’s College, NSW
edtech space look to their communities
of educators to spark new ideas, build / Jennifer Walsh, St Dominic’s College, NSW
solutions and to provide testing grounds
/ Jared Stein, Instructure
for new ideas.
/ Jared Ward, Instructure
In 2020, it will be this spirit of collaboration
that will drive edtech to be a powerful / Candice Lim, Instructure
enabler and vehicle to:
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1 / Empower people to build their own Instructure. (2019). Proceedings of CanvasCon 2019, The International
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post]. Retrieved from https://www.instructure.com/canvas/en-au/blog/
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