Table of Contents

Introduction: The Educational Intelligent Economy, Educational Intelligence, and Big Data; Florin D. Salajan and Tavis D. Jules Part 1: (Re)conceptualizing Data in Comparative and International Education   Chapter 1. Big "G" and Small "g": The Variable Geometries of Educational Governance in an era of Big Data; Tavis D. Jules  Chapter 2. Digital Frontierism and Big Data in Comparative and International Education Research; Bjorn Nordtveit and Fadia Nordtveit  Part 2: Revisiting Methodologies  Chapter 3. The Perceptron: A Partial History of Models and Minds in Data-Driven Educational Systems; Ryan Ziols   Chapter 4. Best Practices from Best Methods? The Methodological and Political-Organizational Limitations of Impact Evaluations in the Global Governance of Education; D. Brent Edwards  Chapter 5. What if Compulsory Schooling was a 21st-Century Invention?; Jason McGrath and John Fischetti Part 3: Workforce Participation, Transformation and Industry 4.0 Chapter 6. The Educational Intelligent Economy - Lifelong Learning - A vision for the future; Vasudha Chaudhuri, Victoria Murphy and Allison Littlejohn   Chapter 7. Humanistic, Innovative Solutionism: What role might large-scale education data play in developing more responsive and more intelligent adult and workforce education policy?; Elizabeth Anne Roumell and Kevin Roessger   Chapter 8. Data Mining and Predictive Analytics in Digital Education: Lessons we can learn from Big Data that are often discarded; Aleksei Malakhov Chapter 9. The Intricate Web of Educational Influence: The Cyborg Dialectic, Commodification of Knowledge, and Organizational Funding; Petrina M. Davidson, Elizabeth Bruce and Lisa Damaschke-Deitrick  Chapter 10. Engineering the Mechanism / Repairing the Robot: Artificial Intelligence at the Intersection of Education and Industry; Luis F. Alvarez León  Case Studies  Chapter 11. Policy Development for an Educational Intelligent Economy in the European Union: An Illusory Prospect?; Florin D. Salajan   Chapter 12. Haunted Data: The Colonial Residues of Transnational School Reforms in Kenya; Christopher Kirchgasler   Chapter 13. Brave New World(s): Intelligent governance, smart schools, and the rise of AIEd; Euan Auld and Yun You   Chapter 14. Learning Analytics for Student Success at University: Trends and Dilemmas; Sean Mackney and Robin Shields

About the Author

Tavis D. Jules is Associate Professor Cultural and Educational Policy Studies at Loyola University Chicago, USA, specifically focusing on Comparative and International Education and International Higher Education. Florin D. Salajan is Associate Professor in the School of Education at North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA. His areas of research interests include international and comparative education, European education policy analysis and information and communication technology in teaching and learning.