A few months back, colleagues and I began editing a special issue focused on Higher Education Futures at the intersection of justice, hope, and educational technology (original call for proposals) for the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. The issue is now published and the seven papers included in this issue are available open access on the journal website. I am also linking to them below.

 

  1. Higher education futures at the intersection of justice, hope, and educational technology

    Our societies face enormous and intertwined economic, demographic, political, ecological, and social challenges. In this environment of uncertainty…we invited prospective authors to reimagine the futures of higher education, and to contribute scholarship that speculates what higher education at the intersection of justice, hope, and educational technology could look like.

    Authors:George Veletsianos, Shandell Houlden, Jen Ross, Sakinah Alhadad and Camille Dickson-Deane

    Citation:International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:43
    Content type:Editorial; Published on: 2 July 2024

  2. Speculative futures for higher education

    This paper uses speculative methods as a way of imagining futures for higher education in open, non-predictive ways. The complexity and ‘unknowability’ of the highly technologised, environmentally damaged and …

    Authors:Sian Bayne and Jen Ross
    Citation:International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:39
    Content type:Research article; Published on: 17 June 2024

  3. Hopeful futures for refugees in higher education: cultivation, activation, and technology

    This paper discusses hopeful futures for higher education and the use of technology in realising those futures through the lens of refugee education in Uganda. Through an analysis of qualitative research done …

    Authors:Michael Gallagher, Sandra Nanyunja, Martha Akello, Apollo Mulondo and Juan-Jose Miranda
    Citation:International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:38
    Content type:Research article; Published on: 10 June 2024

  4. EdTechnica: a vision of an educational publishing community of practice that is accessible, flexible, and just

    Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) have the potential to transform and positively impact individuals, institutions, and society. As educators, we have a unique responsibility…

    Authors:Bohdana Allman, Royce Kimmons, Camille Dickson-Deane, Aras Bozkurt, Melissa Warr, Jill Stefaniak, Monalisa Dash and Fanny Eliza Bondah
    Citation:International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:37
    Content type:Research article; Published on: 20 May 2024

  5. Methods for dreaming about and reimagining digital education

    Utilising emancipatory approaches to educational technology in higher education allows welcoming creative and artistic modes of inquiry. This article presents two methods, a virtual makerspace and a guided fantasy story that were…

    Authors:Kathrin Otrel-Cass, Eamon Costello, Niels Erik Ruan Lyngdorf and Iris Mendel
    Citation:International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:31
    Content type:Research article; Published on: 8 May 2024

  6. (No) Hope for the future? A design agenda for rewidening and rewilding higher education with utopian imagination

    This article argues for exploring, connecting, and applying utopian imagination, speculative design, and planetary thinking as a way forward for higher education to reimagine and move towards more hopeful plan…

    Authors:Rikke Toft Nørgård and Kim Holflod
    Citation:International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:30
    Content type:Research article; Published on: 26 April 2024

  7. Who speaks for the university? Social fiction as a lens for reimagining higher education futures

    This paper combines social fiction and academic analysis to envision hopeful futures for higher education. At the heart of the exploration is Phoebe Wagner’s speculative fiction piece, University, Speaking, which…

    Authors:Punya Mishra, Nicole Oster and Phoebe Wagner
    Citation:International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:24
    Content type:Research article; Published on: 8 April 2024

  8. Generative AI and re-weaving a pedagogical horizon of social possibility

    This article situates the potential for intellectual work to be renewed through an enriched engagement with the relationship between indigenous protocols and artificial intelligence (AI). It situates this through a dialectical storytelling of the contradictions that emerge from the relationships between humans and capitalist technologies, played out within higher education…

    Authors:Richard Hall
    Citation:International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:12
    Content type:Research article; Published on: 12 February 2024