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Datafication in Education: A Multi-Level Challenge for IT in Educational Management

Author : Andreas Breiter

Published in: Stakeholders and Information Technology in Education

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While data-driven decision-making has become a new paradigm for school development and accountability, research on the underlying ICT infrastructures and the ICT management processes have been less prominent. With the trend of datafication, educational management gains new options but also requires adequate controlling mechanisms to take care of the data and to account for privacy and security. The information management cycle can be used to define all relevant aspects of the management process. This is adopted to the specific situation of educational institutions and furthermore extended to account for the different levels of educational governance. This leads to a new concept of educational technology governance as a necessary frame for supporting datafication processes.

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Title: Datafication in Education: A Multi-Level Challenge for IT in Educational Management
Author: Andreas Breiter
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Stakeholders and Information Technology in Education
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-54686-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-54687-2

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54687-2_9

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