Education

EdTech in 2026: What Universities Actually Need

Daniel Okafor
Daniel Okafor January 1, 1970

The EdTech wave of the early 2020s left universities with a sprawl of tools and very little integration. The next wave will be about consolidation.

The three real problems

  • Student data scattered across a dozen systems
  • Faculty buried in admin work that software should handle
  • Recruiting processes that haven't changed in twenty years

The opportunity isn't another point tool — it's the boring work of making the existing ones talk to each other.

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