The Comparative Education Society of India (CESI), RIG 13, 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 – 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 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?
Event schedule and agenda
Date: 21st February, 2025
Time: 12.00 PM to 1.30 PM and 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM
Agenda: Paper presentations followed by discussion and remarks by panel
Interested listeners and viewers, please use this link to follow the event online.
Panelists
Dr. Anurag Shukla,
Director of Education and Policy at Bṛhat, Visiting faculty at TISS Mumbai, and ISDM-CPID fellow.
Dr. Sayantan Mandal,
Convenor, RIG 13, Education and Technology, CESI, and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Jammu.
Gurumurthy Kasinathan,
Convenor, RIG 13, Education and Technology, CESI, and Director, IT for Change.
Paper presentations
(listed in planned order of presentation)
Pandora's Box of Worms or Butterflies? Exploring Generative AI for Teacher Education in India
Dr. Shama Parveen Ansari,
Independent
Digital Disruption in Education: A Critical Examination of EdTech Proliferation
Yashi Goyal,
Department of Education, University of Delhi
The Double-Edged Sword: ChatGPT and the Erosion of Independent Learning among Undergraduate Students at University of Delhi
Bharti Tyagi,
Central Institute of Education (CIE), Department of Education, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Study of Challenges in Adopting Education Technology in Pedagogy
Chandrang Pathak,
Department of Education, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Institutionalising EdTech: Learning Loss, Crisis-Driven Policymaking, and Digital Education in India
Abhishek Srivastava,
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Studying Private Platform Partnerships with Higher Education Institutions in India
Sarath Kurmana,
IIT Bombay
A Study of social harms of digital technology in education: A qualitative perspective
Vaishali Garg,
Regional Institute of Education, Ajmer (NCERT)
Edtech Among the Marginals: Question of Tech-equity and State Interventions in India.
Dr. Madhu Bala,
Assistant Professor Sociology (Guest), Dr. B R Ambedkar University Delhi.
Embracing Free and Open Source Software in Education Technology
Ansh Arora,
FOSS United
From teacher to content creator: A study of extended reality/Augmented reality tools in Education
Nooria Rehman and Mansi Sharma,
Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies
AI-driven reflective practices: Creating safe spaces for teacher growth in hierarchical educational systems
Basiluddeen Azad
Independent
From Chalkboards to Chatbots: The Role of Education Technology and AI Tools in Fostering Student Development
Debosmita Mukherjee,
National Institute of Education Planning and Administration.
Stay engaged
Are you concerned about how digital technologies are currently shaping Education in India?
How do we design EdTech programs that respect diverse socio-economic contexts and align with core educational principles?
Get involved:
Join the Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) here.
Participate in its Research Interest Group on Education and Technology here.
Join the Telegram group 'EdTech India Watch' here
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (CLOSED)
Instructions for applicants for paper presentation
- 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 10, 2025
Communication to shortlisted applicants: February 12, 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.