ABSTRACT
Edtech is promising since the 1960s to “fix” education and bring solutions to teaching and learning. There are now much more serious problems and challenges for higher education, and EdTech is unphased by the succession of failures associated with past hype and unfulfilled promises of AI. The neoliberal model is reducing the university experience to a transaction where students pay for a degree and institutions charge for a credential; it is a tick box that needs to be checked to access entry-level positions in the marketplace. Universities slide towards a model devoid of meaning, commercialising training in line with a cult of technological solutionism, which is causing current overlapping crises. Futures of academia are interlinked now with developments of edtech, the use of AI in teaching and learning, and a possible schism between commercialised, vocational-oriented institutions and few universities for the haves, with human-centred education and approaches of education.
