Contents
About the authors and artists 3
Section I Finding Fortitude and Hope 35
1. Writing from the wreckage: Austerity and the public university 53
Section II Making Sense of the Unknown and Emergent 89
3. On public goods, cursing, and finding hope in the (neoliberal) twilight zone 91
4. Imagining higher education as infrastructures of care 111
5. Why decolonising “knowledge” matters: Deliberations for educators on that made fragile 137
6. Closing the factory: Reimagining higher education as commons 161
7. Fostering the gift: On property regimes and teaching pedagogies in higher education 183
8. A meditation on global further education, in haiku form 199
10. HE4Good assemblages: FemEdTech Quilt of Care and Justice in Open Education 267
Section III Considering Alternative Futures 291
12. Visioning futures of higher education for the common good 303
13. Speculative futures for higher education: weaving perspectives for good 317
14. “Vibrant, open and accessible”: Students’ visions of higher education futures 335
15. Vulnerability and generosity: The good future for Australian higher education 353
Section IV Making Change through Teaching, Assessment and Learning Design 371
17. Humanising learning design with digital pragmatism 397
18. Advancing ‘openness’ as a strategy against platformisation in education 421
21. Critical data literacies for good 491
22. Collaboratively reimagining teaching and learning 509
23. The only way is ethics:A dialogue of assessment and social good 533
Section V (Re)making HE Systems and Structures 555
24. Cultivating sustainable blended and open learning ecosystems 557
25. Making higher education institutions as open knowledge institutions 575
26. “It’s about transforming lives!”: Supporting students in post pandemic higher education 591
27. Who cares about procurement? 603
Afterword: Higher education for good 623