Machine behaviourism: Future visions of 'learnification'and 'datafication'across humans and digital technologies

J Knox, B Williamson, S Bayne - Learning, Media and Technology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines visions of 'learning'across humans and machines in a near-future of
intensive data analytics. Building upon the concept of 'learnification', practices of 'learning'in …

Digital tools and challenges to institutional traditions of learning: technologies, social memory and the performative nature of learning

R Säljö - Journal of computer assisted learning, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this article is to offer some reflections on the relationships between digital
technologies and learning. It is argued that activities of learning, as they have been …

Becoming information centric: The emergence of new cognitive infrastructures in education policy

S Sellar, KN Gulson - Journal of Education Policy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
New cognitive infrastructures are emerging as digital platforms and artificial intelligence
enable new forms of automated thinking that shape human decision-making. This paper (a) …

Digital policy sociology: Software and science in data-intensive precision education

B Williamson - Critical Studies in Education, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Software code, algorithms, data analytics and infrastructures have become inseparable from
policy processes and modes of governance. This article introduces 'digital policy …

Students and society in the 2020s. Three future 'histories' of education and technology

F Macgilchrist, H Allert, A Bruch - Learning, Media and Technology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
As social science fiction, this paper imagines three possible futures for education and
technology. Among the most important technologies emerging today are data-aggregating …

[HTML][HTML] More than tools? Making sense of the ongoing digitizations of higher education

L Castañeda, N Selwyn - … Journal of Educational Technology in Higher …, 2018 - Springer
In times of hype surrounding the 'Internet of Things','blockchain universities','learning
analytics' and the like, this special issue of the International Journal of Educational …

Who owns educational theory? Big data, algorithms and the expert power of education data science

B Williamson - E-learning and Digital Media, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
'Education data science'is an emerging methodological field which possesses the algorithm-
driven technologies required to generate insights and knowledge from educational big data …

Connections between e-learning, web science, cognitive computation and social sensing, and their relevance to learning analytics: A preliminary study

S Arafat, N Aljohani, R Abbasi, A Hussain… - Computers in Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper we explore the interrelationship between the sociotechnical-pedagogical
culture of e-learning, the emerging disciplines of Web science, Social Sensing and that of …

Educating the smart city: Schooling smart citizens through computational urbanism

B Williamson - Big Data & Society, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Coupled with the 'smart city', the idea of the 'smart school'is emerging in imaginings of the
future of education. Various commercial, governmental and civil society organizations now …

Moving beyond the predictable failure of Ed-Tech initiatives

JM Sancho-Gil, P Rivera-Vargas… - Learning, Media and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The development of Information and Communication Technology has created waves of
excitement about its power to fix educational problems and improve learning results …