Copyright

Hany Zayed

Published On

2025-11-17

Page Range

pp. 391–414

Language

  • English

Print Length

24 pages

23. Digital Transformation and the Changing EdTech Landscape in Egypt

  • Hany Zayed (author)
Chapter of: Education 2.0: Chronicles of Technological and Cultural Change in Egypt(pp. 391–414)
This chapter reviews the digital transformation of Egyptian education at the two levels of the state and private markets. The state is xpanding the digital infrastructure, incorporating digital devices, digital assessments, digital content, and digital learning platforms into the K-12 years. At the same time, the private sector is expanding an unregulated EdTech ecosystem exponentially. It poses the questions: How is Egyptian public education being digitalized and who are the main architects of this process? How is this digitalization spurring a private and unregulated EdTech landscape with new players, scope, and rules? What happens when the state and private markets come into contact, coincide, and collide? The chapter raises broader questions about digital educational futures, the risks of individualization and edutainment, the dangers of datafication and surveillance, and the transformation of, and assault on, educational institutions and roles.

Contributors

Hany Zayed

(author)
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Cultural and Social Sciences at Marquette University

Hany Zayed is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Cultural and Social Sciences at Marquette University. He earned his MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research covers the digital sociology of education, the political economy of educational technologies, digital social research methods, digital developmentalism, and social movements and collective action. His research has been published in The British Journal of Sociology of Education; Learning, Media and Technology; Theory, Culture and Society; and The Journal of Digital Social Research. His forthcoming book with MIT press entitled Digital Paradoxes, examines the contradictions between the utopian promises and messy realities of Egypt’s educational digitalization.