EdTech inc. : selling, automating and globalizing higher education in the digital age / Tanner Mirrlees and Shahid Alvi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

For a political economy of EdTech -- Higher education in a "digital age" : capitalism, neoliberalism, and the University, Inc. -- Profiting on higher education : platform capitalism is the classroom -- Automating higher education : Taylorism and the teaching machines -- Globalizing higher education : platform imperialism -- Conclusion: A pedagogy for technological citizenship, a pedagogy for the precariat working class.

"This book advances a critical political economy approach to EdTech and analyses the economic, political and ideological structures and social power relations that shape the EdTech industries and drive EdTech's development and diffusion. Particular attention is paid to the integration of EdTech with some of the most contentious developments of our time, including platformization and data-veillance, the automation of work and labor, and globalization-imperialism. By using a political economy of communication approach, this book will be of value to anyone interested in a neo-Marxist analysis of the current transformations of capitalism, the State, higher education, and online learning in the digital age"-- Provided by publisher.