Exploring EdTech Related Innovation and Identifying Economic Growth Opportunities within the Canadian Virtual Learning Sector

The education system is rapidly evolving due to technological and societal change that have been brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes have contributed to the demand for technological infrastructure to help address these evolutions (OECD, 2020). With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, educators, guardians, and students have been forced to adapt to a virtual learning model. During this shift, educators are in need of support that can help them in providing students with continuously engaging and quality education. In the interest of understanding how Canada can best adapt its technological infrastructure in order to better support virtual learning, it is important to look at the technology that has already been developed in Asia. The intern will be partaking in a research project that will determine the efficiency of technologies aimed at better supporting educators in providing quality virtual education. The main objective of the intern will be to understand the EdTech sector in Asia and to determine the best technology that can be used and adapted by Canadian educators.

Faculty Supervisor:

James McLellan

Student:

Partner:

Cansbridge Fellowship

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Technology

University:

Queen's University

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