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How do big tech companies get so involved in education? My whole job is documenting this right now. Here's one e.g.
Salesforce is suddenly all over HE in the UK. Got a partnership gig with WonkHE on "Student Experience 4.0" conference https://wonkhe.com/events/student-experience4-0/
Salesforce is suddenly all over HE in the UK. Got a partnership gig with WonkHE on "Student Experience 4.0" conference https://wonkhe.com/events/student-experience4-0/
Salesforce is also the technical partner in the new Digital Strategy 2030 document led by Jisc with UUK, though it was written by Emerge Education, an edtech venture investment company. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/digital-strategy-framework-for-university-leaders
More about Emerge another time. So what is the Salesforce offer to HE? It's the "Education Cloud", enabling your university to become a "connected campus" delivering "the Salesforce Student Experience". https://www.salesforce.org/highered/
The Salesforce Education Cloud is underpinned by the Salesforce Education Data Architecture, a "360 degree" observation portal on to students' data. Like other edu-clouds, it integrates student info, learning mgmt and 3rd party plugin data too. https://www.salesforce.org/highered/data-architecture/
And embedded in the Salesforce Education Cloud is its "Einstein Artificial Intelligence" for predictive machine learning. Salesforce even has an ebook about it: Einstein for Higher Education! https://www.salesforce.org/highered/ai-for-good/e-book-einstein-for-education-cloud/
Salesforce, like AWS et al, may be seeking infrastructural dominance in HE. It's putting our universities on its cloud. It has connections to Jisc and UUK. It's promising 360 degree student surveillance and AI.
Maybe the people who work and study in HE don't want this?
Maybe the people who work and study in HE don't want this?
Some interesting and good ideas floating around about public data trusts, stronger HE data ethics. But how about this from Marion Fourcade and Jeff Gordon @LPEblog - a "digital socialism" for Higher Education? Let's discuss. https://lpeproject.org/blog/learning-like-a-state-statecraft-in-the-digital-age/
And if you didn't see it already, this is a powerful call from @bonstewart to protect HE from its current re-infrastructuring by private tech companies. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university-venus/why-higher-ed-needs-data-ethics
There are some blog posts on HE, edtech and policy here too. It's my job to dig into this, but it matters to many others' jobs too, probably more. https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com
