Abstract The importance of technological progress is hard to downplay, and it becomes even more obvious in the times of the crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has been changing the normal flow of everyday life: a lot of countries have closed their borders, unnecessary travel is reduced to minimum, online grocery shopping breaks any possible records, we live with the feeling of uncertainty what tomorrow may bring...But despite all that, life is going on. Work processes have not stopped, on the opposite, “home office” has become the new normal; universities still provide knowledge to students thanks to distance learning. All kinds of technological tools help us keep different processes running – we are experiencing a rapid turn to a more digital and sustainable future. Long before the coronavirus and its effect on the mankind in general, the Communication for Development programme at Malmö University (Malmö, Sweden) has demonstrated an example of the use of information and communication technologies in practice. The programme has been running for almost 20 years already (September, 2020, marks its 20th anniversary), and its distance learning format has been one of the main attractive factors for students with other commitments, such as family, job, voluntary work, etc. More than that, an innovative and interdisciplinary nature of the programme has made it possible for people from all around the world, with different backgrounds and life schedules, participate in it. On the one hand, it looks like ICT and new media have created a perfect ground for the studying process. But on the other hand, probably it is quite early to be too optimistic about it. This paper tries to look deeper into the role that the pedagogical approaches, communication, media and digital channels play for the ComDev students and alumni. The current work also aims at investigating the impact of ComDev on their alumni’s paths and practical use of the acquired theoretical knowledge in the field of social change. Survey research in the form of an online questionnaire and semi structured interviews are used as a quali-quantitative methodological approach in the body of the paper. I would like to carry out this study as action research for optimization of the learning process and finding more efficient ways of promoting social change, that could be helpful in the future for ComDev.