Author: Daniele Di Mitri

Daniele Di Mitri is a professor of Multimodal Learning Technologies at the German University of Digital Science. At the German UDS, he leads the research group "Augmented Feedback" and coordinates the master's in Advanced Digital Realities. He is an associated researcher at the DIPF - Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education and a lecturer at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. Daniele Di Mitri received his PhD in Learning Analytics and Wearable Sensor Support from the Open University of the Netherlands. His current research focuses on developing AI-driven, multimodal learning technologies to enhance digital education. It aims to create innovative, responsible solutions that improve learning experiences through advanced feedback systems and ethical integration of technology. He is a "Johanna Quandt Young Academy" fellow and was elected "AI Newcomer 2021" at the KI Camp by the German Informatics Society. He is a member of the CrossMMLA, a special interest group of the Society for Learning Analytics Research, and the chair of the special interest group on AI for Education of the European Association for Technology-Enhanced Learning.

Education

Quick-start guide to the Privatisation of Education in the 21st century

Posted on 11/18/2013by Daniele Di Mitri

Soft drink advertisments in a school cafeteria

When someone talks about privatisation of education the first picture that comes into my mind is a school that, to overcome budget cuts, has installed big advertisements of a famous soft drink in classrooms. Although the possibility this happens tomorrow is very small, there are several hidden forms of privatisation happening right now in European education. These characterisations are less striking than advertisement, but at same time way more sneaky and dangerous: they risk undermining the impartiality of education by reducing it to an exploitable commodity at the service of the labour market.

To better understand the whole process, we first need to distinguish the concepts of privatisation and commodification of Education: during the last decades, these two notions have become two sides of the same coin.

Education Italia

IT - Tra 'skills' e disoccupazione giovanile: come l'Europa privatizza l’istruzione

Posted on 01/31/2013by Daniele Di Mitri

L’idea della scuola-azienda che si nasconde dietro il progetto di legge Aprea, che tenta di delegittimare il ruolo delle rappresentanze studentesche, trasformare i consigli d’istituto in consigli di amministrazione e permetterne l’accesso ai privati, è solo una delle tante forme con cui si declina il processo europeo di privatizzazione dell’istruzione.

A più di dieci anni dall'avvio del processo di Bologna, che ha riordinato la formazione universitaria, le istituzioni europee, in una situazione di recessione provocata dalla crisi economica con ripercussioni in tutti settori in termini di occupazione e diffusa contrazione, si è rafforzata sempre più la necessità del libero mercato di controllare i processi di creazione e trasmissione del sapere. Le istituzioni europee, portavoci delle istanze neoliberiste, hanno ben chiara la strategia su come concludere il processo di assoggettamento a trecentosessanta gradi dell’istruzione e della formazione ai fini della produzione.