Tech trends versus EdTech
Which tech is coming — and is EdTech adopting it?
Trendwatcher tracks broader tech trends and checks whether they already surface in the Dutch EdTech corpus. This reveals what is hot in the tech world but has not yet landed in education.
Per signal we compare three sources: General Tech (broad tech and AI sources), EdTech media (education-technology sources) and the EdTech corpus (the curated Dutch EdTech artifacts). The transfer gap is a volume-corrected ratio (share in General Tech ÷ share in EdTech media); a high value means a signal is prominent in the wider tech world but barely present in EdTech. The corpus column shows whether it actually occurs in the Dutch field.
| Signal | General Tech | EdTech media | EdTech corpus | Transfer gap | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI agents ai | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7,0× | Possible gap |
| Large language models ai | 23 | 1 | 8 | 4,0× | Possible gap |
| Multimodal AI ai | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3,9× | Possible gap |
| Edge & on-device AI ai | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0,8× | Emerging |
| Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) ai | 3 | 1 | 12 | 0,6× | Emerging |
| AI tutoring & copilots ai | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0,1× | Typical EdTech |
Do not read this as "the future of education". A high transfer gap only means: this technology appears relatively often in general tech sources but barely in EdTech sources. That makes it a candidate for further exploration — nothing more, nothing less.
2 auto-discovered candidate trend(s) are waiting for enough signal before being shown publicly.