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Hybrid education is undergoing a decisive transformation as generative AI and global digital connectivity become embedded in education systems. Once a pragmatic response to crisis, hybrid learning now signals a long-term shift in how knowledge is produced, governed, and experienced across institutions and cultures. This chapter adopts a futures-oriented lens to move beyond mere technological adoption, stressing anticipatory, ethical, and human-centred design. Drawing on futures thinking, policy foresight, and global education frameworks from UNESCO and the OECD, it outlines three plausible futures: the Adaptive Future, the Ethical Future and the Regenerative Future. From these, the Hybrid Education Futures Framework (HEFF) is proposed as a strategic tool for institutional reflection and policy design. The chapter argues that the core challenge is not technological disruption but human reinvention, guided by ethical intelligence to advance equity, resilience, and collective progress.
Published in: Advances in computational intelligence and robotics book series