Flynn, Sharon, Byrne, Julie, Devoy, Maeve A., Johnston, Jonny, Lowney, Rob, Magee, Eimer, Molloy, Kate, Moloney, David, Munro, Morag, Ongolly, Fernandos, Ryan, Jasmine, Stone, Suzanne, Waters, Michaela and Wright, Kyle (2023) 14. “Vibrant, open and accessible”: Students’ visions of higher education futures. In: Higher Education for Good. Open Book Publishers, pp. 335-352.
This chapter links past, present, and near-future perspectives to explore tensions in Ireland’s higher education, emerging from a national-level student partnership research study focused on experiences of digital education across the sector. The chapter brings together student, academic, and other professional staff voices from various institutional contexts in a “future studies” approach. Student-articulated visions of the near future arising from a collaborative national teaching enhancement project are used as stimulus material. The chapter explores how tensions between differing stakeholder perspectives on the near future of higher education in our context might be reconciled, and develops around two key questions: (a) why is student participation and student visioning of the future important in realising higher education for good; (b) what do students think an ideal learning future looks like, and how does this future align with the HE4Good concept?
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