Looking beyond Higher Education
Insights and trends:
👉 Edtech remains an enormous, underinvested opportunity, but the momentum the sector has been building in recent years has slowed significantly as investors tighten their belts to better understand the more robust parts of the sector. Learn more in this Dealroom edtech report.
👉 Apprenticeship programs are gaining traction, with programs expanding beyond blue-collar jobs, integrating also corporate and tech jobs. The trend isn't going unnoticed within the Edtech space, with mega successes like Multiverse thriving.
👉 Perry den Brok from the WUR Edtech funnel says: "A pilot with new EdTech (Dutch) can have several goals: (1) replacement or efficiency, (2) enrichment or addition, or (3) transformative/redesign of the teaching-learning process. And, for example, the evaluation often has different starting points: both technical and educational, with attention to the different actors, ethical rules, and of course the dissemination."
👉 There’s a macro driver around the changing role of older people in society. Throughout the course of human history, older adults have been respected and considered as the experts as they would pass down methods of e.g. making textiles and weapons, help rear children and grandchildren and would hold social history in their memories. Other society members would go to them for wisdom and advice. But now - in many societies - we have Google to answer our questions, family members aren’t necessarily living close by and older people have lost their historic place in our social groups. So, how should older people feel connected and who should they connect to?
👉 With the huge labor shortages, polishing your resume doesn't seem really necessary. Yet hundreds of entrepreneurs and workers are starting an MBA (Dutch) again this year, a special master's degree in business administration that costs up to tens of thousands of euros per year. The FD entered into talks with leaders who consciously go to school in these expensive times.
👉 Dutch Edtech member Teenit teaches young people how to handle money. The new Teenit app has been specially developed to teach teenagers how to handle (digital) money and to increase their financial knowledge. With the help of the app, they could prepare for an independent and financially healthy future.
👉 Dutch Edtech member DialogueTrainer, a scale up in online conversation training, has won the prestigious CES innovation award. This prize is awarded annually to companies that distinguish themselves in the field of design and technology. The Dutch winners were announced today in the Beurs van Berlage. In January, DialogueTrainer will showcase its innovative training at the annual CES event in Las Vegas to a global audience.
Initiatives organized by members & partners:
📣 De Koepel: Edtech Experience Haarlem. Are you working on educational innovation and digital innovations in the curriculum? Come to the EdTech Experience in the Haarlemse Koepel on Friday 4 November. On that day, De Koepel will be full of students, colleagues and entrepreneurs with EdTech solutions.
Job market:
🗣 Check out this overview of all current Edtech-related jobs in the Netherlands.
Dutch Edtech Events (Members only):
Edtech Next Summit Bielefeld
Date: Tue-Wed 25-26 Oct 2022
The biggest Edtech start-up event in Europe, organised by the European Edtech Alliance. The Summit is the first and only event in Europe with a sole focus on EdTech Start-Ups. whether early learning, K12, higher education, vocational learning, corporate learning or lifelong learning.
Side-Event Edtech Next Summit Bielefeld
Date: Wed 26 Oct 2022 4pm – 4:45pm (CEST)
Official side-event of the conference organised by NBSO Frankfurt and Dutch Edtech. Come and meet a variety of edtech startups from 11 edtech segments and show the conference how to approach the market in this informal get-together.
Dutch Edtech Community Event Marineterrein
Date: announced soon
Get together for our second Community Event and learn more about the faces behind our now 100 member companies. Time and date will be announced shortly.
The next issue of this newsletter will be published on the 8th of November. Let us know if you’ve got any feedback or a story to include by emailing annet@dutchedtech.com. Sharing this email with your network is also much appreciated!
Cheers,
Peter, Ruben, Roel, Inna & Annet