Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences) ›› 2024, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (1): 114-126.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.01.008

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Algorithmic Power and Its Regulation in the Digital Transformation of Education

Xin Yang1,2   

  1. 1. Basic Education Research Center of Southwest University, Chongqing 400715
    2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715
  • Accepted:2023-02-28 Online:2024-01-01 Published:2023-12-28

Abstract:

The brand-new algorithm relying on the advantages of framework, machine and embedding will change from a simple computing tool to a transaction operation rule with the construction of a digital platform, the mining of data resources and the design of human-machine interaction, and then evolve into an unavoidable power issue in the digital transformation of education. Dialectically speaking, the algorithmic power in the digital transformation of education is not only beneficial to managing risks, standardizing behaviors and assisting decision-making; It may also lead to the risk alienation, behavior degradation and decision-making imbalance of education due to its own limitations and the conflict between it and education. In order to regulate algorithm power into a safe and reliable “cage”, in addition to relying on the educational review of algorithm objectives, the educational interpretation of algorithm design, the educational supervision of algorithm operation, the educational identification of algorithm application, the educational filing of algorithm information, and the educational recognition of algorithm responsibility, we should build a normative mechanism from background, process to result. We should also appeal to the disenchantment, balance and sublation of education in algorithm, so as to highlight the balance thought of “inside but out”.

Key words: algorithm power, digital transformation, algorithm, algorithmic regulation