Providing a comprehensive, global overview of the digitalisation of education, the World Yearbook of Education 2024 examines the ways advanced digital technologies are transforming educational practices, institutions and policy processes.

Establishing a critical research agenda for analysing the digitalisation of education, the carefully selected chapters in this collection interrogate the current impacts of new digital technologies, emerging controversies over emerging data practices and future implications of algorithmic systems, automated decision-making and AI in education. Organised into four sections, the contributions in the collection examine the following:

• The historical, scientific and technical foundations of contemporary digitalisation in education
• The political and economic dynamics that underpin the education technology industry and new platform models of education

• How algorithms, automation and AI support new modes of data-driven governance and control of education systems

• Controversies over the inequitable effects of digitalisation in education, and proposals for data justice, ethics and regulation

This resource is ideal reading for researchers, students, educational practitioners and policy officials interested in understanding the future of digital technologies in education.

About the Author

Ben Williamson is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Janja Komljenovic is a senior lecturer and the director of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation at Lancaster University, UK.

Kalervo N. Gulson is a professor in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032417905
Author Ben Williamson
Format Hardback
Page Count 314
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g