When the OECD launched the first Digital Education Outlook in 2021, some of the technological advances that we discussed were thought to belong in the realm of science fiction. Now, only two years later, developments in AI are advancing at an unimaginable pace.
Today’s launch of the 2023 Digital Education Outlook (DEO) comes at a pivotal moment in the evolution of education. The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a rapid uptake in technologies that facilitated remote learning, and many education systems have begun to digitalise their systems and tools. As a result, education systems the world over are now awash in data, and a host of new actors from the private and public sectors have entered the education space.
But is this a true digital transformation? How have these changes reconfigured the relationship between people, technology and space in entirely new ways? How coherent, interlinked and open is this change at the system level? In other words: is the whole of the digital education ecosystem greater than the sum of its parts?
These are the questions asked by the 2023 Digital Education Outlook, as it explores countries’ readiness for the digital transformation.
