Anyone who works in educational technology (or edtech for short) is blessed with one of the world's greatest jobs. We spend our days working at the intersection of education and technology. These are two exciting places to be if you get excited about disrupting the status quo and participating in creating the future.
I count myself amongst the luckiest of the edtech tribe, as I work for an institution of higher learning that is committed to exhibit world leadership in the goal of leveraging technology to improve learning.
So what could possibly be troubling me as I contemplate my edtech career and the larger profession in which I work? One word: India.
As I write these words I am acutely aware that I am about 7,579 miles away from where all the excitement in the edtech world is most likely to occur.
I am convinced of two things:
[This article republished with permission from the author and the Tuck School of Business.]