Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning

Since the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) first convened its annual EdTech conference in IT Sligo, (now the Atlantic Technological University) in 2000, we have collectively lived through the rise of the VLE, mobile learning, the MOOC moment, a pivot to emergency remote teaching, and now the generative AI era. Through each of these shifts, the ILTA EdTech conference has remained a connection point for practitioners, researchers, and thinkers who care deeply about what technology means for teaching, learning, and the humans at the heart of both.

This special issue of the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning marks a special milestone. It takes its title and its guiding question directly from the 2026 conference theme: EdTech You: Digital Learning From How to Who. Rather than asking only what technologies can do, we ask who gets to design, develop, and deploy them, for whom, and why. Who has been present in EdTech conversations over the past 25 years, and who has been missing? What does the history of this community reveal about our assumptions, our blind spots, and our aspirations?

We invite submissions that are grounded in the 2026 EdTech conference and in the longer arc of 25 years of Irish learning technology scholarship and practice.