Woolley-Wilson: Edtech will see sustained post-pandemic growth as a must-have
Jessie Woolley-Wilson · How I Built Resilience: Jessie Woolley-Wilson of DreamBox · Aug 8, 2020 · at 11:34
DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson discusses the long-term impact of remote learning on the educational technology sector in August 2020.
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“We really feel like education technology is a V-shape, and we're seeing that now. We've had explosive growth in users, as I mentioned, and we expect that that is going to continue for the future, because we feel like people who were trying out learning technologies as a nice-to-have complement now have been forced with distance learning to see it as a must-have, and so if they have good experiences and they see that it complements what they want to do in the classroom and at home, We don't see any end in the growth opportunities for proven, effective, engaging, and reliable learning technologies.”
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