Most Education Software Goes Unused

Dec 3, 2018, 1:10 PM

(from Education Next) Most educational software licenses go unused in K-12 districts, according to a new report by scholars at the University of Pennsylvania. Data from BrightBytes, a K-12 data management company, revealed that a median of 70 percent of districts’ software licenses never get used, and a median of 97.6 percent of licenses are never used intensively. Researchers at the Christensen Institute suggest this is because those who produce and purchase educational software need to better understand what teachers need from software, which they group into three categories:

Help teachers lead the way in improving my school.
Help teachers find manageable ways to engage and challenge more students.
Help teachers replace an outmoded instructional model to better reach each student.