Editorial: From Conference Dialogue to Open Scholarship in a Supportive Community

In this issue we are delighted to showcase several research articles that trace their origins to the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA)’s EdTech Conference 2024, held this year in ATU Sligo at the end of May. This progression from conference presentation to peer-reviewed publication exemplifies ILTA’s commitment to advancing scholarship through the Irish Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL). Through the pages of this journal, we can see how initial concepts and dialogues sparked at the conference event have matured into comprehensive research contributions. This natural evolution from conference discourse to scholarly publication demonstrates the vibrant academic ecosystem that exists between practitioners and researchers supporting each other in their scholarship of teaching and learning, making their work more publicly available for peer review and critique, and for these findings to ultimately become reproducible and extensible by others.