Author: Melanie Tagg
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Current Market Trends
Whilst the need for the most valuable learning software tools is clear, schools continue to face significant pressures on their IT budgets with multiple demands on spend. This wave of research has seen spend on classroom tools decline across respondent schools, despite expectations by schools that spend would see an increase. This presents many challenges for software vendors as the research shows that schools are becoming more demanding in terms of their software requirements in terms of features and capabilities but are undoubtedly becoming more cost-conscious out of necessity.
The Learning Management Systems (LMS) market is now fully established as a key learning software used in the classroom that has benefitted schools in allowing students greater accessibility to digital learning content. Schools continue to find value in adopting LMS tools, with almost 60% currently having invested in at least one LMS vendor, while a further 34% are actively planning on integrating the tool into their school environment within the coming 24 months.
This classroom tools report is based on interviews with school IT decision makers in the USA. The respondents represent all 50 states, grouped by East Coast, West Coast and Central states. It focuses on the current and projected ownership of interactive classroom technology tools, Learning Management Systems (LMS), productivity software, STEM technologies, adaptive learning software and formative assessment technologies, as well as the key priorities and obstacles faced.
Understanding the current adoption levels of EdTech in K-12 schools, along with planned investment, is often challenging. This is due to the large number of vendors and the different solutions offered to schools. In addition, the decision-makers and influencers often operate at district level, so CTOs and CIOs do not have the same level of influence typical of other industries.
This classroom tools report is one in a series of four education technology reports from Futuresource, with the other three covering:
| Client Device Computing
| Audio Visual Devices
| Administration Tools
| Comprehensive PDF report
| Executive summary
| Classroom tools overview
| Budgets and priorities
| Learning management systems (LMS)
| Digital formative assessment tools
| Digital summative assessment tools
| Digital homework submission tools
| STEM and immersive technologies
| Classroom productivity tools
| Spend and software procurement
| Feedback on the current usage of EdTech in schools and planned investment in classroom tools
| Insights into which factors are most important to schools when investing in classroom tools and their planned future purchases
| Barriers to investment are also explored, as well as key methods of procurement
| EdTech market analysis
| EdTech market size
Futuresource has been tracking, researching and consulting on the global education technology market for more than 20 years. However, since 2020, the pandemic has placed a spotlight on EdTech and the role it has played in keeping children educated, and Futuresource’s reporting has been ramped up accordingly. This publication is one in a series of highly granular research reports, produced to provide businesses with an holistic view of the market.
Any enterprise operating within the EdTech sector will benefit from this report, particularly:
| Manufacturers and their suppliers
| Resellers and VARs
| Intermediaries and supply chain
| EdTech market strategists, marketing and sales professionals
| Investors
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