Challenging Formalization in Education and Beyond

<p><em>Challenging Formalization in Education and Beyond </em>addresses the effects of today’s attempts to organize knowledge processes and performance in education particularly in its ever-growing digital environments. As on-site blended and fully online learning become deeply interdependent secondary and higher education managers and instructors who seek to integrate apply and teach within these formats using standardized rules assessments algorithms and accountability structures may be doing unintended harm to their students. Focusing on students’ performance health cognition behavior and learning outcomes this book analyses how current trends methods and policies in formalization can be challenged and corrected to ensure high-quality education. Scholars educators administrators and designers of traditional asynchronous precision automated and micro-learning formats will come away with new insights and pragmatic solutions for engaging students in more active participatory and creative activities.</p>