DeMIStifying the future: 2022 will be a watershed for Big Data
The EdTech market is booming. Already worth some £188bn globally, a recent report by the research house Arizton forecasts a near doubling in value to £450bn in just five years. And though there are doubtless myriad factors at play – from rapid technological development through to significant investment – it would appear that, when focusing on management information systems (MIS), Covid-19 has fuelled some of this growth.
With school pupils at home for swathes of 2020, and oscillating between bedrooms and classrooms for much of 2021, institutions came to rely on their MIS platforms to, amongst other things, monitor pupil progress and conduct essential safeguarding. After all, where education professionals had fewer opportunities to quickly chat in person to discuss pupil progress or wellbeing, MIS plugged the gap, allowing vital information to be trapped and easily shared between often remote colleagues.
For further education and training institutions, meanwhile, MIS provided the answer to two…
