Teachers’ professional digital competence: the importance of understanding the wider commercial context

Enda Donlon

Chapter 6 in Reimagining Teacher Digital Competence, 2025, pp 77-91 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Educational technology (EdTech) has grown to become a substantial commercial industry at a global level, driven by both established corporations and emerging start-ups, with current indications that it will continue to expand into the future. This chapter considers how the increasing presence of EdTech systems and platforms in schools presents a number of ethical considerations with regard to issues such as data privacy and ownership, and the professional autonomy of teachers. It argues that educators’ professional digital competence must now include an ethical awareness of this commercial dimension of digital technologies to navigate these challenges and safeguard education as a public good.

Keywords: Commercial dimension; Data analytics; Privacy; Teacher autonomy; Ethical awareness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035337507
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