If technology were a train, the French education system would be running behind it, trying to catch up.
The education sector hangs on to its traditional and archaic methods despite the key role it should be playing in switching to a more digital and connected world.
The subjects taught and the teaching methods used have hardly changed over the past decades whereas the working world has seen new types of jobs emerge, new industries take hold of the reins and new methods and processes come into being.
Because the French education system isn’t particularly agile and doesn’t seem to want to change, a group of start-ups has decided to step in!
These companies – which are at the leading edge of technology and form one of the lynch pins of the French economy’s digital and cultural transition– are part of Edtech France whose aim is to make France into an Edtech Nation.
And their motto? No pain, big gain! This is because the big current trend in education is gamification.
Among all the Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC), Small Private Online Courses (SPOC) and other online courses, we can now find collaborative platforms where everyone can learn about subjects that interest them as well as mobile games that can turn you into an expert by playing for just a few minutes a day.
But there’s still one shadow overhanging this picture I’ve painted of the French Edtech environment, and that’s the school system. Because while education has traditionally been a compass for life it now needs to be a sat nav!
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