In my position as the Executive Director of Academic Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, I have the privilege of working with teachers and district leaders from across the country. Through the many interactions that my team and I have had with these educators, I have gained substantial insight about what they hope to obtain from digital content. I have written extensively about the education innovation ecosystem (see working definition here, and additional Forbes blogs on the topic here and here), and the important role of educators’ voices as part of this ecosystem. For this reason, I have decided to share with you the features that teachers and district officials most often seek when choosing digital content to use in the classroom. Education entrepreneurs should take these requests into account when developing technology products.
