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Ben Williamson
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 93
Citations - 3700
Ben Williamson is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Educational technology & Geology. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 78 publications receiving 2438 citations. Previous affiliations of Ben Williamson include University of Exeter & University of Stirling.
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Algorithmic skin: health-tracking technologies, personal analytics and the biopedagogies of digitized health and physical education
TL;DR: The ways in which algorithms are converging with eHPE through the emergence of new health-tracking and biophysical data technologies designed for use in educational settings are considered.
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The social life of Learning Analytics: cluster analysis and the 'performance' of algorithmic education
Carlo Perrotta,Ben Williamson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that methods used for the classification and measurement of online education are not neutral and objective, but involved in the creation of the educational reality they claim to measure.
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The datafication of teaching in Higher Education: critical issues and perspectives
TL;DR: The contemporary culture is increasingly defined by data, indicators and metrics as discussed by the authors, and measures of quantitative assessment, evaluation, performance, and comparison infuse public services, commercial compani...
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Governing software: networks, databases and algorithmic power in the digital governance of public education
TL;DR: Drawing on and combining concepts from software studies, policy and political studies, it identifies some specific approaches to digital governance facilitated by network-based communications and database-driven information processing software that are being discursively promoted in education by cross-sectoral intermediary organizations.
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A review of the potential for rare-earth element resources from European red muds: Examples from Seydişehir, Turkey and Parnassus-Giona, Greece
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that red mud from two case study sites, one in Greece and the other in Turkey, has an average of ∼1000 ppm total rare earth elements (REE) with an enrichment of light and heavy REE, respectively.