Education is a complex and fragmented sector, and operating at various aspects, ranging from the global, national, local to the personal level. As an excellent analytical framework, the Cube offers six dimensions to help us understand learning technology ventures in terms of their definitive market/product features and relationships.
However, information about the innovation that is currently occurring throughout the frontiers of education is anchored in its local levels, making accessing, understanding and learning from innovations undertaken elsewhere very difficult.
As one of the world’s most innovative growth companies recognized by Forbes in 2014, Navitas has worked with entrepreneurs, educators, institutions and governments, and mapped 26 clusters of innovation across 15,000 companies in the next generation learning lifecycle and $50 billion of educational investment around the world. The outcome, the Global EdTech Landscape 3.0, offers over 60 pages of market maps and profiles, including analysis of each cluster on the dimensions of scale, investment, traction and disruptive potential.
Apart from the six dimensions of the Cube, this map offers new facets and insight on business innovation occurring in stages of the learning lifecycle, various educational market segments and different geographical locations.
Here is the detailed report.
https://www.navitasventures.com/insights/landscape/
The latest version, the 2019 Global Learning Landscape was built around 50 core clusters along a learning journey. From knowledge and curriculum to engagement, assessment, workforce and talent, the Global Learning Landscape is inspired by design thinking, following the learner from early childhood to lifelong learning. With this map in hand, we can have a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the educational changes that are taking place around the world.
You can find more details by clicking the following hyperlink.
http://globallearninglandscape.org/
This colour coded taxonomy of educational innovations sounds complex but, upon viewing the report I found it was easy enough to navigate. The categories help to narrow one’s focus on the innovation field or age group you may be looking for and the letters are quite intuitive to help you discover what you’re looking for, ex: Ro=robotics. This report and site appeal to a wide range of people within the education field from teachers looking for fresh ideas to use within the classroom to those who are brainstorming ideas for a future start-up in the Edtech field and may need to do some market research on what is out there currently to help them with their future model/idea. Including innovation at a global level is a great appeal to this report as well as this broad scope is necessary in order to analyze which forms of technology are being currently used in other countries therefore leading to more educational research as to the effectiveness of these technologies when looking to apply them to future use in companies or schools for example. Being able to see where money is being invested is also quite a good tool to help policy makers, head teachers, governments, etc. refine where it is being invested and working in education versus where it is being invested and perhaps being wasted.