Presentación sección especial: Plataformas digitales y datificación en el sistema educativo. Posibilidades y desafíos

As a consequence of the transformations initiated in recent years, and accelerated in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the penetration of new infrastructures, digital platforms and data-intensive tools in national education systems has intensified (Suárez et al., 2023; Williamson & Hogan, 2020; Pangrazio et al. 2022). This phenomenon is rapidly transforming teaching-learning processes and affecting dimensions such as school justice, privacy and the right to education, in part due to the growing importance of BigTech corporations, which have an increasing influence on the design of education policy and the creation of new educational markets through the sale and distribution of commercial digital devices and platforms to governments and their education systems (Sancho et al., 2020; Saura et al., 2022; Parcerisa et al., 2022).