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This book provides a scholarly investigation of the new era we have entered in which platforms can replace or profoundly modify educational systems, and questions role of educational policy in this new stage of platform-based digital technology.
List of contents
Introduction Part I: Global Trends of Education and Technology: Policies, Platforms, Problems, and Possibilities 1. The platformization of primary education in the Netherlands 2. India’s educational sector: Path towards digital multiply 3. From the incorporation of technology into the classroom to the consolidation of a hybrid model using technology as an accelerator of pedagogies 4. Education management as a platform: Challenges and opportunities for Latin American and the Caribbean 5. Shaping the future of education through learning platforms Part II: Reflections: The State, the Market, and the Emerging Digital Education Platformization 6. On making in/access together: A reimagination of ‘access’ to education platforms as a socio-material practice 7. Platformization and the enactment of multiple economic forms: The rise of a neoliberal moral economy of education 8. Labyrinths of platformization of education in the Global South (and beyond) 9. Promise and perils of the platformization of higher education 10. The platformization of education: A framework to map the new directions of hybrid education systems 11. What is 'algorithmic education' and why do education institutions need to consolidate new capacities?
About the author
Cristóbal Cobo is a Senior Education and Technology Specialist at the World Bank.
Axel Rivas is a Professor, Researcher, and Dean of the School of Education at the Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina.
Summary
This book provides a scholarly investigation of the new era we have entered in which platforms can replace or profoundly modify educational systems, and questions role of educational policy in this new stage of platform-based digital technology.
