By Keith Devlin @[email protected], @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social

Education Technology: An open book with a window into teaching and learning, conveying the use of technology through digital media and online platforms, through networks and the Internet.

As a developer of an education technology product, my eye was naturally caught by two recent news stories on the topic.

On February 27, the government finally agreed to re-start the two programs that fund most of the newest educational technology products that spin-out from universities. Those programs are the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. Each federal department has such programs.…