Performance Management and Digitalization in Higher Education
In her talk, Prof. Leišytė will show that the range of EdTech actors (e.g. SageHR, greytHR, HReasily) that develop digital solutions for performance management is very diverse. They promise increases in efficiency, user friendliness and transparency of performance measurement and management processes.
Opponents draw attention to the possible negative effects on academic work. The transfer and valorization of performance data takes place not only in performance review talks with academics, or in management debates on university performance, but also through trading of gathered data by EdTech companies. Further, linking different data sources with the support of digital architecture provides knowledge to the Higher Education Institutions and allow HEIs to gain a broad spectrum of control over academic work. This brings the performance management closer towards surveillance capitalism in higher education, which may curb professional autonomy. This could be seen as a possible dark side of the effect of digitalization on performance management systems and processes.
Date/time: Thursday, 12 May 2022, 11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. CEST
Where: University of Twente – Building Cubicus – BusinessRoom, B205d or online via Microsoft Teams Meeting