Your digital journey becomes significantly smoother if you can rely on expert support every step of the way.

Our
Services

Your digital journey is like any other – you need to determine where you’re going, how you’ll get there …and of course where you’re starting from.

Onboarding
Review

When you join The EduTec Alliance, we commence with an Onboarding review – our baseline. This is an intensive eight to twelve week exercise designed for us to get to know you and your stakeholders – including pupils and parents.

To gather the information we need to support you, we:

→ Conduct in-depth interviews with each stakeholder group to identify:

Everyone’s perception of the current state of educational technology in the school; your ecosystem, its good points and weak spots, and the projects under way or in planning
Where they believe the school is heading and how educational technology needs to support it

→ Capture and review all your systems information, adding them to our EduTec Knowledge Base:

Your ‘Install Base Inventory’ of all of your software systems and technology components – codified according to The EduTec Alliance’s School’s Systems and Technology Schema
Your educational technology issues by component and status;
Your current and planned educational technology projects – again by components and status

These interviews and installed systems are recorded and scrupulously documented allowing us to synthesise all of the information and build up your:

» Educational Technology Vision – aligned to your school’s overall vision
» Educational Technology Strategy
» Education Technology Implementation Roadmap
» Education Technology Programme Business Case

We also benchmark you across two different but complementary dimensions to assess your current educational technology capabilities. We use:

→ Cross Industry Best Practice (CIBP):

Measuring your school’s performance against best practice across all industries in the categories of Strategy, People, Process, Application Ecosystem, Technology Infrastructure, Data and Project Management.

→ International Standards for Technology in Education (ISTE Based):

Using the internationally accepted measures for the skills assessment the of educators, pupils and leaders.

Consistent benchmarking is essential to compare your current capabilities to other schools and to chart your progress over time.

Strategy
Implementation
Guidance

Having agreed your educational technology vision and implementation strategy during the Onboarding Review, we support you every step of the way during your transition programme. We are regularly requested to sit on the programme’s steering committee, as well as provide guidance on methodologies & best practice. In short, we apply our experience and knowledge to ensure that your strategy is smoothly implemented into the day to day running of your school and the vision is achieved.

Educational
Technology
Advisory

Today’s educational technology market is highly fragmented, with vendors making great claims for the efficacy of their products. The majority of schools we encounter are already operating north of 100 edtech components in their organisations, and fielding demands to add more. The advent of AI is only exacerbating the issue.

As an independent and product-agnostic body, The EduTec Alliance can support everything from the selection of a new edtech component to the rationalisation of an institutions full edtech stack – increasing efficiency and saving costs at the same time.

Our advisory work is supported by our proprietary Knowledge Base, which tracks 1000s of edtech products, who is using what and their experiences. The platform has been designed to allow a full edtech inventory to be rapidly created along with cost/issue profiles and ‘fit for purpose’ recommendations.

Programme
design and
management

The EduTec Alliance has invested over 30 years in developing its failsafe approach for programme design and management – testing it across many different industry sectors and project types – before refining it for education. Our approach is based on structure, rigour and – most of all – clear communication. It’s simple, sensible and just works.

We encourage institutions to use the key documents that we make available here and our YouTube channel which provide a clear explanation of our methods.

Sometimes, organisations feel that to really embed our approach into their culture they need to see it being used by the experts – especially if they are undertaking a major initiative.

To support this need, staff from the EduTec Alliance can work with members to design, plan and implement their key educational technology transformations.