Council of Europe

2nd PIP Track @ AIED

Christian M. Stracke

Come to our Practitioners, Industry and Policy (PIP) track!

It is taking place at the 27th International AIED Conference on:

Wednesday, 1st of July 2026 at COEX in Seoul, Korea

The Practitioners, Industry and Policy (PIP) Track was established at AIED 2025 and continues at AIED 2026 thanks to its great interest and success last year.

The PIP Track is unique as it is not asking for scientific papers, but contributions on the role of AI in industry and society, in relation to educational challenges and opportunities. Practitioners and policy makers are invited to share AI in Education (AIED) examples and initiatives from industry, schools, higher education, workplaces, and society at-large.

The PIP Track is an opportunity for researchers to learn from practitioners and policy makers, and allowing practice and policy to be enriched, in turn, by rigorous evidence-based research. It seeks submissions that present implementations from education or industry as well as strategies and policies on AIED. Explicitly, the PIP Track welcomes descriptions and reflections of practical implementations, strategies, and policies, and analyses of personal experiences using AI in the educational domain from a practical perspective.

This year, the PIP Track received again a record of 40 submissions from which 10 high quality contributions were selected after strict peer-reviews (acceptance rate of 25%). Therefore, it will offer contributions from a range of different educational contexts and professions to reflect the manifold implementations and perspectives in AIED.

More information:

https://www.aied-conference.org/2026/call-for-paper/pip

https://www.aied-conference.org/2026

Three years of ChatGPT – So what?

Christian M. Stracke

Three years are passed since the free publication of ChatGPT on 30th of November 2022 and it seems that the whole world fundamentally changed since then.

As you know, I’m a passionate promoter of Open Education as a broad philosophy for learning innovations. And I strongly believe in the power and impact of quality education.

Therefore, I’m wondering how it is affected and challenged by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Let me share my hopes and concerns with you and tell me your opinion on them:

First, there was huge scepticism and even fighting against AI – in education as well as in general public discussions: Many people reacted negatively in fear of future dangers.

A development stop highlighting the AI power and potential threats for the society was demanded by some commercial AI providers – to improve own progress and benefits.

In contrast, the AI use was strongly increasing, in particular in 2025, leading to a shift in the debates by international enterprises, lobby organisations and public authorities.

Today, there is more an AI hype with promises for everything and all sectors while AI regulation is considered as hindering innovation and unique opportunities.

But just the contrary is true: AI regulation is helpful and beneficial because it facilitates the safe and trustworthy AI use and sets guardrails for all parties and stakeholders.

And in the special sector education, we urgently need AI regulation to safeguard our human rights, democracy, and societal learning objectives and equality! You can read my full argumentation here: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8638-1_7

Currently, we are starting experimentations with children without any proven evidence from scientific research that AI use in education is causing positive effects.

Definitely, we need to address AI in education but first of all, we require education about AI to facilitate critical reflections and building of AI competences and AI literacy.

I’m looking forward to a better future through Open Quality Education including AI use in innovative learning processes for All and to our close collaboration for realising it!

Now, I’m very curious about your personal opinions and changes: 

What do you think about it and what happened to you during the last three years?

Please share your thoughts with me and let us keep the contact!

3rd Conference on AI and Education by the Council of Europe

Christian M. Stracke

We were very pleased to facilitate the 3rd Conference on AI and Education by our Council of Europe AI&ED Expert Group: In the year 2025, it was again at the impressive Council of Europe premises in Strasbourg. The conference theme was: “Ensuring Quality Education in the AI Era – Introducing the Council of Europe Compass for AI and Education”.

3rd AI&ED Conference © Council of Europe 2025

On 8th and 9th of October 2025, the Council of Europe Compass for AI and Education was officially launched. During the two full days, the conference participants discussed the latest developments of our AI&ED Expert Group in four sessions with interactive workshops.

In addition, keynotes informed about the current state-of-the-art and our key challenges for both international conventions: on education with AI and on education about AI.

Personally, I was happy to contribute to the conference success with my workshop moderations and to report the collaboration with the Council of Europe Committee on Human Rights and the planned new handbook on Ethical AI and Human Rights that will include a section on education.

We hope that our intensives exchanges will lead to a better AI regulation in education and will improve the education with safe AI use as well as the introduction of critical education about AI into the national and regional curricula of all 46 member states and beyond.

Read all details on the conference website: https://www.coe.int/en/web/education/-/artificial-intelligence-and-education-third-working-conference