The CSET 2025 Bengaluru and New Delhi edition was one of many CSET 2025 events that happened across the globe between February 17th and February 21st, 2025 in response to a call from Prof. Neil Selwyn, Faculty of Education, Monash University, and a leading international researcher in the area of digital education.
This event was an academic gathering for discussing topics centered around the common theme ‘Problematising education and digital technology’ in the local context. The event ran in two sessions – presentation of papers by select participants, followed by remarks and discussion by a panel of scholars and experts in education technology (‘EdTech’).
The topics for the event were based around four common sub-themes, addressed in the form of the following questions:
- What are the pressing issues, concerns, tensions and problems that surround EdTech in our locality? What questions do we need to ask, and what approaches will help us research these questions?
- What social harms are we seeing associated with digital technology and education in our locality?
- What does the political economy of EdTech look like in our region? What do local EdTech markets look like? How are global Big Tech corporations manifest in local education systems? What does EdTech policy look like, and which actors are driving policymaking? What do we find if we ‘follow the money’?
- What grounds for hope are there? Can we point to local instances of digital technology leading to genuine social benefits and empowerment? What local push-back and resistance against egregious forms of EdTech is evident? What alternate imaginaries are being circulated about education and digital futures?
Event Poster
A summary report of the event was produced and shared with Neil Selwyn following the event.
Summary Report
Recordings of individual presentations from the event are posted here.