The hidden architecture of higher education: building a big data infrastructure for the ‘smarter university’
@article{Williamson2018TheHA,
title={The hidden architecture of higher education: building a big data infrastructure for the ‘smarter university’},
author={Ben Williamson},
journal={International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education},
year={2018},
volume={15},
pages={1-26},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3759016}
}This article examines the sociotechnical networks of organizations, software programs, standards, dashboards and visual analytics technologies that constitute the infrastructure, and how these technologies are fused to governmental imperatives of market reform.
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