Gurumurthy Kasinathan, IT for Change, Bengaluru and Aishwarya Sharma, Research Scholar, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA, MoE), New Delhi.
The CSET 2025 Bengaluru and New Delhi edition is one of many CSET 2025 events happening 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. See details of the call here.
This event is envisaged as an academic gathering for discussing topics centered around the common theme ‘Problematising education and digital technology’ in the local context. The event will run in two sessions – a panel discussion among a group of scholars and experts in education technology (‘EdTech’), followed by presentation of papers by select participants.
The topics for the event will be 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?
The event will run in two sessions in sequence.
Session 1: Panel roundtable
Time: 12 Noon to 1.30 PM
The confirmed list of panelists will be updated here before the event.
Session 2: Paper presentations
Time: 2.15 PM to 3.45 PM
The shortlist of presenters will be updated here before the event.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Instructions for applicants for paper presentation (session 2)
- Eligibility: Students pursuing a degree in education, teachers, educationists, EdTech technologists from civil society organisations, researchers affiliated to academic institutions, and independent researchers.
- Submit an abstract of 150 words through this form
- If your abstract is accepted, you will be notified individually via e-mail; your name and the title of the paper will be updated on this page. We are unable to respond to applicants who are not shortlisted.
Note: Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis and will be closed once an adequate number of abstracts have been shortlisted. We encourage early submissions to ensure consideration.
- Your presentation should align with at least one of the four questions above, and be contextual to the region as mentioned above.
- Each presentation is for about 7 minutes, followed by upto 3 minutes of Q&A / audience discussion.
- Specific details of the event, such as the venue (for in-person gathering) and the online meeting room link for remote joinees will be shared with the shortlisted participants.
- Both sessions will be recorded. IT for Change will produce a brief summary of the perspectives that emerge from the sessions and share with the participants for comments. An open-access report will be produced from this material.
Key dates
Last date for submission of abstract: February 7, 2025
Communication to shortlisted applicants: February 10, 2025
Event date: February 21, 2025
Event summary for comments: February 28, 2025
Open access report from the event: March 2025
Do you have questions?
E-mail cset2025@itforchange.net
Note: Submissions sent on e-mail will not be considered. Please use the form linked above for submitting your abstract.