Includes index.

Big "G" and small "g": the variable geometries of educational governance in an era of big data / Tavis D. Jules -- The educational intelligent economy and big data in comparative and international education research: a decolonial vision / Bjorn H. Nordveit and Fadia Nordveit -- The perceptron: a partial history of models and minds in data-driven educational systems / Ryan Ziols -- Best practices from best methods? Big data and the limitations of impact evaluation in the global governance of education / D. Brent Edwards Jr. -- What if compulsory schooling was a 21st century invention? / Jason McGrath and John Fischetti -- The educational intelligent economy-lifelong learning-a vision for the future / Vasudha Chaudhari, Victoria Murphy and Allison Littlejohn -- Humanistic, innovative solutionism: what role do data analytics play in developing a more responsive and more intelligent adult and workforce education policy? / Elizabeth A. Roumell and Kevin Roessger -- Data mining and predictive analytics in digital education: lessons we can learn from big data that are often discarded / Aleksei Malakhov -- The intricate web of educational governance: the cyborg dialectic and commodification of knowledge / Petrina M. Davidson, Elizabeth Bruce and Lisa Damaschke-Deitrick -- Engineering the mechanism/repairing the robot: artificial intelligence at the intersection of education and industry / Luis F. Alvarez León -- Policy development for an educational intelligent economy in the European Union: an illusory prospect? / Florin D. Salajan -- Haunted data: the colonial residues of transnational school reforms in Kenya / Christopher Kirchgasler -- Brave new world(s): governing clouds, smart schools, and the rise of AIEd / Euan Auld and Yun You -- Learning analytics for student success at university: trends and dilemmas / Sean Mackney and Robin Shields.

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