20-12-2024
What is this focus area about?
- Projects
- Who are we doing this for?
- Join the EdTech Community
- Best practices and lessons learned
- In the media
- Our collaborations
- Contact
What is EdTech?
EdTech is an umbrella term for educational technology. These are tools that have been developed specifically to enrich education or to streamline educational processes. EdTech is evolving rapidly and the range of offerings is growing explosively. This is a welcome development, as the demand for useful apps and tech solutions in vocational education and training schools, universities of applied sciences and research universities is growing rapidly.
Why a pilot hub?
The opportunities offered by EdTech are not being sufficiently harnessed. EdTech procurement and deployment in educational institutions is currently ineffective and inefficient. Public values are inadequately safeguarded and the possibilities of public-private partnerships are not yet being used their full potential In other words, there’s still a lot to be done.
With the pilot hub, we look at how to do it better.
That is, how educational institutions and EdTech parties can find each other more easily, collaborate better and learn from each other. We are exploring how educational institutions can pool their resources to come up with a more robust procurement strategy and how they can use EdTech to deploy tools that truly address their needs and challenges. In this way, they will be able to use these tools more effectively and sustainably. And, finally, how Dutch companies can tap into this to become valuable partners for the education sector. In short, how we will collectively develop a fully-fledged, national EdTech ecosystem.
What exactly does the pilot hub do?
By experimenting – through a short, iterative process of exploring, testing and learning – we explore how this fully-fledged ecosystem might work. The best approach is to just get started rather than overthinking everything in advance. This way we discover what works and what does not work. We can learn a lot by doing it this way.
Projects
In the pilot hub EdTech, we focus on ideas dealing with different themes, such as public-private partnerships, public values, strategy and procurement for different target groups (learners, lecturers, EdTech companies).
Some of the projects we are involved in are:
- Marketplace for EdTech
- Co-creation Lab
- Long-term vision for EdTech
If you’d like to know more about our work or wish to take part, please send an email to edtech@npuls.nl. We will get in touch with you as soon as possible.
Who are we doing this for?
Learners
… get better education through EdTech (e.g. by supporting EdTech solutions in flexible education)
Educational professionals
… have knowledge and skills about EdTech, have tools and work with EdTech companies
Procurement professionals
… have innovative procurement methods for collaboration with EdTech suppliers
Join the EdTech Community
Are you, as an education professional, involved in EdTech? If you would like to explore how we can create an ecosystem where EdTech can truly enrich education, we invite you to join in and have a say. Please sign up here.
Stay up to date
In the sprint presentation of the pilot hub, we bring you up to date on the latest developments in EdTech. Would you like to attend the next sprint presentation? Join us via the link below. There you can also replay previous sprint presentations.
Best practices en lessons learned
In the media
VISTA Edutalk
What is Npuls, what does one do and why is it interesting for vocational education training schools? In this podcast episode of VISTA college, we dive deeper into Npuls as a programme, EdTech as a focus area and its relationship with the teacher. Will you listen back too?
Data Dialoog
What is the core and importance of the pilot hub EdTech? How can the different educational institutions strengthen each other on digitisation? And what steps are still needed? In this podcast episode from Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Renske de Beijer and Jelle Kok are guests. Renske is project leader of the pilot hub EdTech, and Jelle is Npuls quartermaster, also of the pilot hub EdTech.
Our collaborations
Dutch EdTech
Where the pilot hub EdTech, as part of Npuls, mainly considers the needs of educational institutions, Dutch EdTech focuses on the interests of EdTech companies. Demand (from educational institutions) and supply (from EdTech companies) come together in the collaboration between pilot hub EdTech and Dutch EdTech. We are each other’s first point of contact and sparring partner in issues that call for active involvement of EdTech companies or educational institutions. Together we are stronger.
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