50 Predictions About What 2025 Will Bring To Edtech, Innovation, And Everything In Between
eSchool News, Wednesday, January 1st, 2025
As 2024 moves into 2025, educators greet a new year with uncertainty. Pandemic-related learning loss and academic inequities remain a hurdle, particularly as COVID relief funding dries up. A second Trump presidency has many educators wondering how proposed policy changes will impact schools and districts.
Education is at a crossroads, with pressing issues such as potentially major federal policy changes, evolving AI, global workforce demands, and equity issues weighing heavily on educators' minds.
This begs the question: What's next for education? We asked educators, edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2025. (Go back to 2024's predictions to see which came true and which have yet to materialize.)
Here's what they had to say:...