The Edtech Sector Towards Some Great Opportunities

JEFF MAGGIONCALDA, CEO COURSERA, TALKS TO RECTOR GIANMARIO VERONA IN THE LATEST EPISODE OF EXECUTIVE CHATS

The Edtech sector has some great opportunities for growth and innovation, a sector that is “dynamic and changing quickly” and that saw “30 million new users came to Coursera during the pandemic”, highlights Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO Coursera, in a conversation in the Executive Chats series with Rector Gianmario Verona.

“Younger students are more likely to look for an experience on campus, but also to do some of their degree program remotely, but universities will especially find that to serve working adults offering more programs online will be valuable,” he says.

A sector which thus has huge potential for growth. “Investors recognize how much need there will be in the coming years and decades to integrate tech into making high-quality education more available to everyone in the world. The world is changing so fast and as we go through our working lives it will be clear that going to school for just four years will not meet the needs of what we need to learn.”

“And investors go after opportunities and the money going into Edtech is creating more and more innovative companies and this will rapidly accelerate the digital transformation of higher education,” he concludes.
 
 
 
 

by Tomaso Eridani