This open access book (116 page PDF) is a collection of essays that asks of digital education "what kinds of futures are being imagined and enacted for education, whose interests these futures serve, what assumptions underpin the current drive towards digitalisation, and what remains unexamined or quietly displaced in its wake?" The focus is less on the stated (Utopian) intentions and more on what is actually being put into practice. "A central concern running through the volume is the place of the human in digitally mediated education," write the editors. But this is a moving target; "the chapters attend to the ways in which human agency, judgement, and relationships are being reshaped under conditions of digitalisation." The volume considers tensions such as those between scale and care, efficiency and responsibility, and access and meaningful participation. A deeper current is what Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria calls "the erosion of shared frameworks through which universities justify their actions, define value, and make their commitments intelligible." Some characterize this as "chasing technology", some focus on emerging social values, and some characterize it as a recharacterization of our own humanity.
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