Digital education and social assessment. A research agenda

Abstract

The paper aims to define a research agenda and assessment reports about digital education and its public policy planning. Academic research and shreds of evidence have demonstrated that a discussion about digital education is focused on methods and platforms but there is a lack of social impact assessment of these new forms of learning accelerated by the pandemic spread of Covid-19. The emergency could not be a sort of wide authorization to continue the emergency model without a discussion that encompasses social impacts and future policies. In Europe, where is control of social impact the problem of social exclusion due to education digital acceleration lacks focused reports. A digital education acceleration must be asses with social impact assessment and risk analysis of the actual policies with a research agenda.