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Post-Covid-19 Education and Education Technology ‘Solutionism’: a Seller’s Market

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13 Feb 2023

Post-Covid-19 Education and Education Technology ‘Solutionism’: a Seller’s Market

The Covid-19 pandemic and the social distancing that followed have affected all walks
of society, also education. In order to keep education running, educational institutions
have had to quickly adapt to the situation. This has resulted in an unprecedented push to
online learning. Many, including commercial digital learning platform providers, have
rushed to provide their support and ‘solutions’, sometimes for free. The Covid-19
pandemic has therefore also created a sellers’ market in ed-tech. This paper employs a
critical lens to reflect on the possible problems arising from the hasty adoption of commercial digital learning solutions whose design might not always be driven by best
pedagogical practices but by their business model that leverages user data for profit making.

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