What am I seeing?
Themes and domain anchors: controlled concepts that connect artifacts, organisations, signals, and Seeking Ground items.
Themes
The concepts that structure the Educational AI and EdTech ecosystem.
Themes connect artifacts, organisations, signals, and Seeking Ground items into a readable landscape. Domain anchors are the central stable entry point.
How to read this page
Controlled vocabulary as themes
What is it based on?
Domain anchors are manually defined core concepts. Regular themes are partly manual and partly algorithmically recognised from the corpus.
How certain is it?
Domain anchors are explicit and stable. Theme relations are based on co-occurrence in the current corpus and may shift as the corpus grows.
What does it not mean?
Not an exhaustive taxonomy of the field. Themes reflect what is visible in the indexed corpus, not the full reality.
Domain anchors
Stable domains the observatory starts from.
Domain anchor
EdTech
Educational technology as a sector: products, services, platforms, and organisations building technology for learning and education. Includes market development, procurement, and ecosystem formation.
Domain anchor
Educational AI
The application of artificial intelligence in educational contexts — covering intelligent tutoring, AI-driven assessment, adaptive learning, teacher support tools, and the governance of AI use in schools and institutions.
Themes
Connected concepts across the ecosystem.
theme
AI in education
How AI is applied within educational institutions and practices — classroom tools, administrative AI, teacher-facing AI, and student-facing AI applications.
theme
Co-creation
Collaboration between schools, developers, and researchers in designing and developing educational products. Emphasises school involvement in product definition and iteration.
theme
Digital learning technology
Tools, platforms, and systems that enable digital forms of learning. Includes LMSes, adaptive platforms, digital textbooks, and learning analytics.
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Digitalisation of education
Systemic digitisation of the education sector — policy, infrastructure change, workforce readiness, and the governance of the digital transition in schools and institutions.
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EdTech maturity
Maturity models and assessment frameworks for EdTech adoption in schools and institutions. Includes digital readiness scans, maturity levels, and adoption pathways.
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Educational data
Data standards, privacy governance, and the use of learning analytics in education. Includes data sovereignty, GDPR application in schools, and AI training data from educational contexts.
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Educational innovation governance
Governance structures, policy instruments, and institutional arrangements for steering innovation in the education sector. Includes funding programmes, national strategies, and coordination bodies.
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Evidence-based EdTech
The demand for, and practice of, evidence of effectiveness in educational technology products. Includes efficacy research, validation standards, and procurement criteria.
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Learning materials
Development, distribution, and governance of (open) learning materials, including curriculum-aligned digital content and open educational resources.
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Public education infrastructure
Shared digital infrastructure serving the public education system — connectivity, identity management, standards, interoperability, and public platforms.
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Public-private collaboration
Procurement models, partnership structures, and governance frameworks for collaboration between public education institutions and private EdTech companies.
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School-science-company collaboration
The triangle of school practice, university research, and commercial development in EdTech. Covers consortium models, knowledge transfer, and joint validation.
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Testbeds
Pilot environments where EdTech products and AI applications are tested in real educational settings. Includes testbed programmes, school pilots, and structured validation infrastructure.