A Look Back at 2024 Emerging EdTech Trends & Preparing for 2025

Wishing you a very Happy New Year! Here’s to a great year ahead, filled with meaningful collaborations to empower last-mile learners and make a lasting impact in education.

As 2024 comes to a close, we wanted to highlight some of the emerging trends which we are deducing from the kind of implementation we are doing through our social sector and government partnerships. We believe these will be relevant and NGOs, CSR, System Integrators, government and other partners in the education ecosystem must watch out for them as they plan projects in the year 2025. 

Emerging EdTech Trends

• One of the most impactful and emerging EdTech trends we’ve observed is the growing adoption of a dedicated smart classroom for each grade. This eliminates the hassle of complicated timetables, avoids the scramble to align teacher schedules, or waiting for the smart class slot. Subject teachers can simply step into their classrooms and teach seamlessly using textbooks, digital boards, and engaging digital content in one go. While it may cost more per school, but utilisation is better and hence the impact is more
• District government offices are increasingly investing in setting up learning centres in a district. This combines vibrant learning spaces with bean bags, colorful walls, motivational posters, digital learning options, tablet based digital libraries and more such equipment. These centers are built to attract local students, encouraging play-based learning and becoming a starting point to experience digital learning.
• The emergence of PAL in the social sector for adaptive learning has gained traction. Until last year, we saw  PAL being mostly adopted at the government level. But this year, it’s been exciting to work with several large foundations to set up PAL-based digital libraries. The focus on bridging historical learning gaps through remedial learning has grown significantly this year, making it a key consideration for impactful education initiatives in 2025.
• Another increasing focus of the government and social sector is on experiential teacher training. This has always been a gap but now even state and central governments are working on creating guidelines to prioritize experiential teacher training for seamless adoption of digital learning solutions. 
• One of the most significant trends emerging in social sector and government initiatives is the shift towards project-level monitoring of usage. In earlier years, NGOs and CSRs primarily relied on qualitative data gathered through stakeholder surveys, often conducted by the implementing organization. This approach carried the risk of data manipulation and lacked transparency. However, things are evolving rapidly. Today, NGOs and CSR organizations are demanding data-driven insights and measurable outcomes. It’s becoming essential for implementing agencies to provide regular, seamless data updates—ideally through monthly dashboards that enable transparency, continuous monitoring, and actionable reporting. 

Looking Ahead

As we prepare for 2025, these emerging trends offer a roadmap for anyone seeking to make a significant impact in education. From empowering teachers to engaging students, the focus remains on creating joyful, effective, and inclusive learning environments with strong adoption of implemented solutions.

We look forward to working with NGOs, CSR, system integrators, government and other partners in the education ecosystem in 2025 to enable digital learning for more learners through strategic investments. If you’d like to know more about our digital classroom solutions, you may contact us at +91 7678265039. You can also share your details here or write to us at [email protected].

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