Debates regarding Technology and Education: contemporary pathways and pending conversations

A little more than a year ago, the Editorial Board of the Iberoamerican Journal of Distance Education, RIED, commissioned me to launch an Special Issue on Educational Technology to try to compile in a publication some ideas of relevance that I considered that could help better understand some of the issues we are dealing with in recent times.

Probably because of my “recent history”, my proposal was to launch a special issue that would serve to situate, even if partially, some of the issues that mark the current research on the impact of technology in education.

I believe that those of you who know me more or less know that I am very interested in the future of Educational Technology and how we “breathe” right now, and that lately I am aware of the immense need to approach the criticism of what we do, as well as to undertake critical processes of transformation based on educational reflection. That is why my proposal was not a Special Issue focused on ONE topic, but a monograph that addressed several of these “hot topics” from diverse and interesting perspectives.

This attempt has resulted in this special issue that inaugurates the new year of 2019 in RIED and which, under the title Debates regarding Technology and Education: contemporary pathways and pending conversations, includes 10 articles signed by researchers from very diverse contexts (half of those articles are in English and half in Spanish), which address some of the concerns that research in the field of educational technology lives today.

You can read my introduction to the monograph in the article:

All the other articles are the following: