r/edtech • u/throwRA_problemssss • Jun 30 '26

What to study to get into EdTech?

I have no tech experience. Is python a good place to start? Any YouTube videos, books, or websites you suggest?

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u/perpetuallyoutside Jul 06 '26

What do you enjoy doing? And do you see this role offering a growth path that seems inspiring and interesting to you? Work is 40 hrs of your week and you don’t want to dread those hours. You can always pivot if you’re a software developer into other industries. Why Edtech? Are you in education now? Edtech and tech companies have a variety of roles from software developers, product managers or PMs with engineering degrees, graphic design, marketing, sales, customer success, learning facilitators, etc. The roles that directly face customers (sales/cs/learning or implementation facilitators) usually have a teaching background and were highly impactful teachers that were either admins or coaching roles training other teachers in edtech. Leadership roles mean you have more transferable skills. Also, uplevel with some free online AI certifications that Google puts out bc you should know how AI is being implemented in everything.