World Yearbook of Education 2024

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.

1. Introduction: Digitalisation of education in the era of algorithms, automation and artificial intelligence Part I: Technoscience foundations 2. Theoretical foundations and historical roots of the ‘Automated Classroom’ 3. AI and lifelong learning: A genealogical approach to the analysis of educational imaginaries and problematisations 4. Natural language generation and the automation of pedagogical communication 5. Educational vanishing points: When interoperable platforms turn infrastructural and back in higher education Part II: Political economy 6. How platformisation affects pedagogical autonomy in primary schools 7. The relational powers of platforms and infrastructures played out in school: Differences and implications for teacher work 8. Assetisation of higher education’s digital disruption 9. AI shaped hole: Anticipation regimes and liminal policy rationalities 10. A political economy of AI and education in China Part III: Digital governance 11. Platforming PISA: The OECD as a mobile governance actor in global education 12. Digital literacies as a ‘soft power’ of educational governance 13. After digital literacy: Media pedagogies for platform ecologies 14. Social media’s education grab: Philanthrocapitalism, data centers, and the Metaverse vision of education Part IV: Design and justice 15. Algorithmic bias and discrimination through digitalisation in education: A socio-technical view 16. Digitalisation of education in the era of climate collapse and planetary breakdown 17. The EdTech Stack: A speculative design thought experiment 18. Design justice and educational technology: Designing in the fissures