Digital methodologies of education governance: Pearson plc and the remediation of methods

European Educational Research Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 34-53

  Williamson, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data; data science; digital methods; methodology; Pearson; soft governance; software

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951836805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14749041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474904115612485     Document Type: Article

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