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Review of Ben Williamson (2017). Big Data in Education: the Digital Future of Learning, Policy and Practice

London: SAGE. 256 pp. ISBN 9781473948006 (Paperback)

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  1. Hill and Barber (2014) is a report commissioned by Pearson, a corporation with huge investments in the digitisation of learning through personalised learning programmes and artificial intelligence in education.

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Hogan, A. Review of Ben Williamson (2017). Big Data in Education: the Digital Future of Learning, Policy and Practice. Postdigit Sci Educ 1, 558–561 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-019-00059-6

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