On Friday, 29 May, I will present at the webinar Open-source blueprint: Building better digital education in Europe, organised by the European Digital Education Hub.

The title of the webinar already contains an assumption worth examining: that open-source tools produce better education. Taking this as a starting point, I argue that we need to step back and ask more fundamental questions about digital education before we can answer them. Drawing on Neil Selwyn’s concept of the „orthodoxy of educational technology“ and Frank Geels‘ Multi-Level Perspective, I show how the current landscape of digital education is shaped by ideological forces that go well beyond software choices , from the right-wing roots of Silicon Valley to the pipeline of assumptions that flows, largely unexamined, into our institutions. Against this backdrop, Open Education is not just a technical alternative. It is, at its best, a practice of democracy.

My slides are available below.

Categories: Open Education

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