Data-based recording of educational processes risks narrowing education to quantifiable output indicators and raises data sovereignty and algorithmic ethics issues¶

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q1 i? The authors identify quantification, data sovereignty and algorithmic decision-making as unresolved risks of data-based educational infrastructures. → Katia Tödt 2026

Evidence¶

Katia Tödt 2026¶

Katia Tödt, Corinne Büching, and Bastian Granas. (2026). Digital Education and Innovation: Objectives and Conceptual Classification of the Volume. In Digital Education and Innovation. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-26816-7_1

q1 · i? · theoretical · r?

Authors' interpretive statement in the framing section on challenges of digitalisation and increasing datafication in education, presented alongside developmental-psychological and equal-access concerns for digital media use in schools.

"it carries the risk of narrowing educa- tional processes down to (a few) quantifiable output indicators and is also associated with unresolved issues of data sovereignty and ethical challenges in dealing with algorithmic decision-making systems"

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