Webinar by Rahul Bhargava in the 'Data Cultures in Higher Education' cycle

The problem of datification in education is getting more and more present. Edul@b, with the support of the UNESCO Chair of Education and Technology for Social Change, has organized a series of seminars named Data Cultures in Higher Education that now arrives at its fifth session. On this occasion, UOC welcomes the project-inspirer Rahul Bhargava, who believes in the necessity for data to return to the people to whom it belongs.

 

Bhargava is a researcher in the MIT’s Center for Civic Media and has specialized in civic technologies and data literacy. Although he’s lead the technical development of many kinds of projects, the impact new technologies have on formative environments is his main focus. As a data activist, Rahul is used to working with communities through participatory projects, and this is the spirit that will prevail in our webinar. Considering the power structures that have been historically related to data control, Rahul will go through some case studies that show alternative models from a critical and activist perspective. 

 

This activity is under the Ramon y Cajal project “Professional Learning Ecologies for Digital Scholarship: Modernizing Higher Education by Supporting Professionalism”, whose main researcher is Juliana Raffaghelli.

 

Enrollment is needed. The webinar will take place at 5 pm (Barcelona) / 11 am (Boston)