Teachers, students, and parents exhibited fortitude and resilience in adapting to online learning during the global health crisis. Now it’s time to give them more help in the classroom and to build on data and hard-won insight to shape the connected classroom and the future of education.

This ebook provides education leaders, faculty, and school IT administrators with insights into the technology challenges students and teachers are experiencing and offers guidance for beginning to close the homework gap. You’ll discover advances in education technology and tools that empower teachers to unlock every student’s potential. We address four technology factors that stand in the way of successful academic outcomes in blended learning. We then offer a selection of tools for educators to consider that will help future-proof the connected classroom and prepare the workforce of tomorrow.