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Ferreira, Giselle Martins dos Santos; Rosado, Luiz Alexandre da Silva; Lemgruber, Márcio Silveira; Carvalho, Jaciara de Sá – Learning, Media and Technology, 2020
This article discusses issues concerning the spread of data-driven educational technologies in Brazil. Here, as elsewhere, educational technology continues to be promoted optimistically as the bearer of a panacea for historically-rooted social problems. Whilst some of these technologies have indeed contributed to important widening-participation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Innovation
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Ferreira, Giselle Martins dos Santos; Lemgruber, Márcio Silveira – Learning, Media and Technology, 2019
Nearly two decades have passed since the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement was launched. Its success in Brazil can be illustrated with the establishment of a UNESCO Chair in Open Education in 2014, in one of the country's most prestigious universities. Crucially, OER were included in the 2014-2024 "National Education Plan," a key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Educational Resources, Educational Technology, Ideology