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Independent higher education researcher and executive

Digital or Analog for education 💽 Digitalizing higher education: https://wp.me/pfPUUQ-7r After three decades of unbridled spending on digital technology, it is time to check what value is being created and captured. Has widespread digitalization of higher education made any difference, and for who? Clearly, no amount of analysis is going to halt technology creation, purchase, or use. Electrons and coding are out of the gates, and away. As platforms develop, so too should sophistication and strength of education evaluation. Stirring dialogue around technology almost inevitably provokes interest in more transparency. Digitalization of higher education undoubtedly moves universities in a commercial direction, not least as the smallest teaching interactions are sewn into proprietary platforms owned by big global capital. There is value in public disclosure about these ideas. Vendor research exists in many cases, but while informative it is obviously conflicted. Commercial intelligence platforms exist, as do advocates, and local or large-scale platform/education evaluations. But there is a large gap between sources of information. Join: www.helf.net Higher Education Futures Lab Hamish Coates Ralph Saubern

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