1st Edition

The New Digital Education Policy Landscape From Education Systems to Platforms

Edited By Cristóbal Cobo, Axel Rivas Copyright 2023
238 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 the role of educational policy in this new stage of platform-based digital technology. The contributors explore important questions around who controls these transformations, what form they are taking, what the balance between national... Read more

Introduction
Cristóbal Cobo and Axel Rivas

Part I: Global Trends of Education and Technology: Policies, Platforms, Problems, and Possibilities

1. The platformization of primary education in the Netherlands
Niels Kerssens and José van Dijck

2. India’s educational sector: Path towards digital multiply
Kashvi U. Shetty and Pranjal Mishra

3. From the incorporation of technology into the classroom to the consolidation of a hybrid model using technology as an accelerator of pedagogies
Miguel Brechner

4. Education management as a platform: Challenges and opportunities for Latin American and the Caribbean
Elena Arias Ortiz, Cecilia Giambruno, and Marcelo Perez-Alfaro

5. Shaping the future of education through learning platforms
Sheila Jagannathan

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
Lanze Vanermen, Joris Vlieghe, and Mathias Decuypere

7. Platformization and the enactment of multiple economic forms: The rise of a neoliberal moral economy of education
Emiliano Grimaldi, Stephen J. Ball and Francesca Peruzzo

8. Labyrinths of platformization of education in the Global South (and beyond)
Alejandro Artopoulos

9. Promise and perils of the platformization of higher education
Francesc Pedró

10. The platformization of education:A framework to map the new directions of hybrid education systems Axel Rivas

11. What is 'algorithmic education' and why do education institutions need to consolidate new capacities?
Cristóbal Cobo and Pablo Rivera-Vargas 

Biography

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.