COVID-19 and the edTech rush | Neil Selwyn
Channel: defend digital me
Date: 14/06/2020

Neil Selwyn, Monash University, Melbourne
| @Neil_Selwyn

https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/neil-selwyn

A rapid response to the use of technology in education in the COVID-19 crisis. Who might be the winners or losers and why? What works and what is  not working so well. What might the implications be for the forward looking view of how edTech will respond itself as a sector in the ‘new normal’ and how it may be viewed by practitioners and parents now?

Neil Selwyn is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University who has worked for the past 25 years researching the integration of digital technology into schools, universities and adult learning. He is recognised as a leading international researcher in the area of digital education - with particular expertise in the 'real-life' constraints and problems faced when technology-based education is implemented. His most recent book, Should Robots Replace Teachers? on how developments in AI, robotics and big data are changing the nature of education, was published in 2019, by Polity.