Hope, Technology, and Alternative Futures in Higher Education

Contributions exploring the ways in which emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, online/hybrid/digital learning, and hope intersect. We welcome work on connection, belonging, access, exclusion, justice, power, care, and the futures that educational technologies help us imagine, enable, mourn, abandon, or foreclose.

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The entrance of the memory kitchen in Bogota merged with the memory recipes stuck on a tree bark in Greece — Asli Telli

Woman eating dinner in a camper van. — Cadey Korson

Image contributed by Corina Sirghi — Corina Sirghi

Application of Hope Pedagogy through utilization of resources and Minor Learning Spaces and Major Learning Spaces. — Pankaj Mehrotra

This photograph captures the billowing steam rising from a bubbling geothermal lake in Kuirau Park, Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand. — Elaine Khoo

Delivering a talk at Mapúa University in the Philippines on ChatGPT and essay writing, drawing on findings from my research published in ReCALL. — Fatemeh Ranjbaran Madiseh

An abstract digital drawing on a predominantly black background, filled with overlapping, gestural marks and translucent layers of colour. Two large oval forms in deep pink and pale pink sit near the top, above broad orange, blue, brown and green patches. A vivid red vertical shape runs along the right edge. Fine, looping lines in white, purple and orange weave across the composition, intersecting with textured scribbles, repeated strokes and irregular shapes. The marks vary in density and direction, creating a sense of movement, layering and visual complexity. Small areas of white remain visible around the edges. — Kathryn Coleman

This framework describes how our alternative learning system program continues to survive and thrive in an eLearning environment providing a safe-space for learning that can help boost hope for higher education. — Maria eLiza Cornejo

A train with words about time in its steamy trail passes the great chalk carving the Westbury White Horse. Superimposed on this image by English painter Eric Ravilious is one image and one piece of text. The text is a golden ripple of some of the words from Bobby Kennedy's impromptu speech on the night of the assassination of Martin Luther King. The image is a young woman with commitment. — Penny Wheeler

The image is of three ceramic tiles linked together with a fine woven material. — Sara Archard

A cloth shaped form made of thousands of tiny white spheres drapes in soft folds across a flat dark grey background, dense and solid along its upper edge and increasingly sparse and lace like toward its trailing lower edges. — Kate Sala

I am presenting a framework for structural change: Pedagogies of Hope in Higher Education: Educating Indian Mothers as Teachers. Historically, structural gender disparities have left many women excluded from professional educational systems, even though a mother is recognised as a child's very first school. Rather than treating motherhood as an abstract role, our objective is to provide institutional higher education that formalises their lived insights into professional methodologies. By treating our student-mothers as public intellectual leaders, we turn liminal spaces into pathways of real change for primary schooling." — Shailaja Buvaneswari S

A group of students collaborates around a classroom table, analysing and annotating text and sharing ideas to develop critical thinking and independent inquiry. — Rajinder Kaur

I was at an International Conference - ELTAI 2026 engaging with the “Survive–Evolve–Thrive” reflection display on educational change along with a visual framework emphasizing curriculum redesigning, that I presented during the event. — Madhavi Inaganti

A screenshot of a dashboard showing the percentage of respondents to an institutional teaching evaluation survey. The screenshot shows a 47% response rate from 213 invited students with 102 responded. — James Tsatsaronis

The You Exhibition': A kickstarting activity in our 'Editorial and Storytelling' Class where students create A4 drawings of their world, where later they explain to their classmates as if they were an artist in an art exhibition. — Mega Saffira

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