With 2% of humans working in education that means 150+ million people on this planet are exploring better ways to engage students in learning in order to help them succeed. That’s an enormous amount of time and energy spent finding ways to improve how schools function to improve student success.
The good news is that the education industry is a vast universe of amazing curriculum, EdTech, operational solutions each with their own unique way of improving how schools function, transforming teaching and learning, and improving student outcomes. One quick stroll down any of the wondrous aisles at EDUCAUSE, ISTE, SXSW EDU, and other education conferences sums up all of the passion and energy spent towards supporting students.
The bad news is that with so many amazing providers and innovators it can feel overwhelming, if not hopeless, when trying to make sense of it all.
Educators today are rarely afforded sufficient time and budget to thoroughly discover and evaluate solutions that are most optimal at improving their schools and helping their students.
If only a structure existed that allowed anyone to quickly classify these countless amazing solutions...
This is why the Edvisor Taxonomy of Education Solutions ("Edvisor Taxonomy" for short) was created. The Edvisor Taxonomy brings clarity to the education industry with a new open source taxonomy that classifies education solutions.
The benefits of referencing this taxonomy into schools' solution evaluations include:
The work to build the Edvisor Taxonomy began with Holon IQ’s impressive work to create their original taxonomy called the 2021 Global Learning Landscape. Go check it out. They gifted their taxonomy to the public domain under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Thank you Holon IQ!
The Edvisor Taxonomy narrows its scope to helping K-12, Higher Education, and workforce planning decision makers, solution evaluation teams, and procurement departments. With the help of AI, machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP), 3,000 education solutions were analyzed. The result is the development of the Edvisor Taxonomy's classification of 34 solution clusters across 8 solution categories. Although technology was primarily leveraged to develop the Edvisor Taxonomy there have been opportunities to enhance the taxonomy using human intelligence (HI). In other words the resulting Edvisor Taxonomy balances art with science.
Evaluation teams can now quickly and clearly identify what products and services should be considered, evaluated, purchased, and integrated that align with an institution's critical priorities.
We liked the idea of also paying it forward and have also gifted the Edvisor Taxonomy into the public domain under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
*Stay tuned while this is being updated to its GitHub repository to dynamically track and recommend changes.
Take a look at the Edvisor Taxonomy and let us know how it can be improved to help your school's solution evaluations.