📢 Welcome to the new account of GEPS! We are a research group based at UAB, with members from the Department of Sociology and the Department of Theories of Education. Here, we will share our research activities and key insights on research and education policy. Follow us to stay updated! 📚🔍

Universities are trying to make data useful for purposes such as efficiency, while EdTech companies try to generate commercial value from data. @jkom.bsky.social and I will look at the problems of making data useful and valuable at the London BETT show in January!

Monetising Digital Data in Higher Education: Analysing the Strategies and Struggles of EdTech Startups - Postdigital Science and Education Digital data are a building block of postdigital higher education and, as such, are believed to be economically and socially valuable. However, data need to be made valuable via a complex set of polit...

As @benpatrickwill.bsky.social and I prepare for our talk at the BETT UK in January, I reflect on our recent articles about digital data value in HE. One is on the economic value of data for EdTech start-ups and their strategies and struggles in monetising user data (1): shorturl.at/y4jOw

Do the Effects Persist? An Examination of Long-Term Effects After Students Leave Turnaround Schools - Lam D. Pham, Sean P. Corcoran, Gary T. Henry, Ron Zimmer, 2024 Whole-school reforms have received widespread attention, but a critical limitation of the current literature is the lack of evidence around whether these extens...

On school turnaround in TN: "We find little evidence to support improved long-run student outcomes—mostly null effects that are nearly zero in magnitude." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Interesting contrast from MA: edworkingpapers.com/ai23-882 #EdResearch

Thanks for this, @bethschueler.bsky.social! I’d love to be added!

📢 Exciting news! The Emerging Scholars Global Governance of Education Hybrid Symposium is happening on November 13th, from 10:15 AM to 4 PM!

🎓✨ We’re thrilled to reveal an incredible lineup of speakers and presentations. Register by October 27th at: shorturl.at/9CTNO

"No more extracting concepts from long-form arguments, no more psychic struggle with complex ideas: just autosummary on demand, made possible by a vast undifferentiated pool of content that every successive use of the service helps to grow"

How to Opt Out of A.I. Online Hint: You can’t, really.

"The main people benefitting from the launch of A.I. tools so far are not everyday Internet users (...) but those who are producing the cheap, attention-grabbing A.I.-generated content that is monetizable on social platforms."
#AIEthics
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Just created my profile here! What better way to kick things off than by spotlighting the upcoming Critical EdTech Studies Conference? Check out the details below, and don’t forget to submit your abstract! Thanks, @benpatrickwill.bsky.social and colleagues for organising.

Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intellige...

Fantastic to have Janja Komljenovic @jkom.bsky.social join here - give her a follow for political economy of higher education research. For a taster check out this big multi-authored paper that Janja led on digitalisation of HE www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....