Global education and training expenditure is a more than 6 trillion industry. Estimates say that education expenditure will grow to $10T by 2030, making it one of the fastest-growing sectors. Compared to other industries, EdTech represents a very small portion of the global education market: less than 3% is digital spend (HolonIQ), which means there is still a lot of room for growth in the coming years.
Entry by Marcelo Pérez-Alfaro, Pablo Zoido y Gonzalo Muñoz.
Tara García Mathewson is a staff writer at The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Her work has focused on education, immigration, public housing, and community news. She is also a special guest in our blog series about the development of #skills21 in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The majority of students lack the motivation they need to stay on task from home
Entry by Juan M. Hernández-Agramonte (IPA), Claudia Paola Lisboa Vásquez (OSEE, Minedu), Carolina Méndez (BID), Olga Namen (IPA), Emma Näslund-Hadley (BID), y Luciana Velarde (OSEE, Minedu)
Following school and workplace closures and layoffs throughout the world, mental health experts caution that lengthy shelter-in-place orders may have severe effects on our physical and socioemotional wellbeing. With all of us separated from friends, everyday interactions with other people, routines, and structures, struggles with loneliness, anxiety and depression are rising.
Marie Lou Papazian is CEO and Pegor Papazian is Chief Development Officer at the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, an innovative learning program at the intersection of technology and design. Created in Armenia, TUMO has now expanded to Paris, Beirut, Berlin, Moscow, Tirana and Kiev.
Entry by Emma Naslund-Hadley and Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte
Images are powerful, even mental images. If you cannot imagine yourself doing something, the odds that you will do it drops. International research that asks students to draw mathematicians and scientists, reveal that both boys and girls tend to picture them as male and white.
The social isolation caused by school closures due to COVID-19 could have devastating consequences for children and adolescents and puts their mental health and their socio-emotional and cognitive development at risk.
Never let a good crisis go to waste. It is an opportunity to do the things you once thought were impossible.
Rahm Emanuel
Desirée Denaro is a Project Assistant at Scholas Occurrentes – an educational nonprofit organization led by Pope Francis that promotes training projects around the world. Scholas links technology with art and engages sport to promote social integration and culture gatherings in search for peace.
Entry by Elena Arias Ortiz, Andrea Bergamaschi, Marcelo Pérez Alfaro, Madiery Vásquezand Miguel Brechner.