The Vistas of Inclusive Innovations in Educational Communications and Technology

Helena Sit is a teacher educator, Associate Professor, and research supervisor in Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia.  She is a recipient of the Research Supervision Excellence Award (2022, 2024). Her research focuses on transformative teaching and learning, internationalisation in education, and innovative language education. She specialises in second language teacher education, educational technology in professional development, and social and cultural perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education. She currently serves as Vice-President of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) (2026- ), and previously as Information Officer (2021-2025). She also serves as International Program Committee Executive (2021 - ) and 2025 Conference Co-Chair of The Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology (HKAECT).

Albert Chan is an Assistant Educational Development Manager at the Educational Development Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His work focuses on quality enhancement in higher education, institutional teaching evaluation, and conducting professional development training for university staff. Dr. Chan specializes in helping faculty integrate emerging learning technologies into the classroom, leveraging learning analytics and digital tools to enhance student engagement and optimize blended learning models. He actively supports institutional strategic initiatives aimed at fostering data-informed and technologically adaptive teaching practices.

Anna Tso is the Department Head and Associate Professor of English at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Interested in children’s literature, Shakespeare, and digital literacy, she is the Principal Investigator of the world’s first government-funded project on the Children’s and Young Adult Shakespeare Corpus. She also holds the position of associate editor for the Digital Culture and Humanities book series (Springer, 2017–present) and serves as the Honorary President of the Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology (HKAECT).

Wendy Chan received her Ph.D. in Journalism and Communication from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the current President of The Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology (HKAECT) and also the programme director at HKUSPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College. Her research can be seen in journals included in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), and the Taiwan Humanities Citation Index (THCI). Her research interests include creativity, media professionalism, and journalistic presentation.