Edtech, or educational technology, had always been a quirky add-on to most educational or training providers in the West in the decades between the rise of ubiquitous computer access and the global pandemic of 2020. There was a running assumption that the way training and education had always been done in Western experience, on a face-to-face, one-to-many basis, in a single location, was if not the only way to do it, then “obviously” the best way. Online learning was very much a secondary option, an emergency option with no frills to its educational offering.
