Results of AIED 2025

Christian M. Stracke

The International 26th AIED Conference 2025 – amazing!

The leading scientific community was meeting in Palermo: Again increase in 1000+ submission and 750+ participants!

Exciting speeches and personal talks!

As Co-Chair of the Practitioners, Industry and Policy (PIP) Track, I was very happy about the great contributions in four sessions!

And our Third International Workshop on Ethical AI and Education was also a huge success: Thank you very much to all for fantastic engagement in the interactive event!

Results are published on the Workshop website: https://aied2025.learning-innovations.eu/

Looking forward to meeting you all at AIED 2026 in Seoul!

Invited Speech at 26th MEITAL Conference

Christian M. Stracke

I’m very honoured to be invited to hold a speech at the 23rd MEITAL Conference on Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. It will be held this year on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Yitzhak Rabin Center, Tel Aviv.

Every year, the MEITAL Conference brings together many member so the higher education innovation and technology community, provides a platform for sharing research, development, and implementation of technology-based innovation in Israeli academia.

This year’s conference theme “Higher Education in the Age of Generative AI (GenAI)” offers a rich program and will provide research, development, and technology practitioners in higher education a central platform for knowledge sharing and staying up to date on the latest developments in the field.

My presentation is about: “Ethical Regulation of AI & Education (AI&ED): Needs and Benefits“

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing our work and mindsets as well as education and society. Appointed by the Council of Europe (CoE), I’m proud member of the AI and Education (AI&ED) Expert Group that is currently developing the legal regulation of AI and Education. In my presentation, I claim that regulation of AI and Education is urgently required. And I raise the question which kind of regulation do we want for AI and Education. Furthermore, I remind everybody that AI and Education always means both: Education with AI (AI use) and Education about AI (AI literacy). Thus, I want to discuss with you and all participants the needs as well as the benefits of AI regulation in the fields of the special sector Education.

And my presentation is now available with open and free license here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15972964

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3rd Workshop at AIED 2025

Christian M. Stracke

Selected for the third time:

Workshop “Artificial Intelligence and Education: International Regulation for the Human Rights”

It is accepted after blind peer-review and IS taking place at 26th International AIED Conference 2025 in Palermo, Italy!

Welcome to our Workshop!

We will present and discuss with you the ongoing work of the Council of Europe AI&ED Expert Group on two international conventions: AI use in education (AIED) and Education about AI (AI literacy).

This year, the workshop is dedicated to: “Ethical AI and Education: The need for international regulation to foster human rights, democracy and equity“.

Join our interactive discussion and exchange in the half-day hybrid workshop on Tuesday, 22nd of July 2025 (14:00 to 18:00).

All details on https://aied2025.learning-innovations.eu/

Artificial Intelligence and Education: International Regulation for the Human Rights

Practitioners, Industry, and Policy track at AIED

Christian M. Stracke

With pleasures, I accepted the kind invitation to become Co-Chair of the new Practitioners, Industry, and Policy (PIP) track at the 26th AIED Conference. My colleagues Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan from Amazon (USA), Penghe Chen from the Beijing Normal University (China) and Emmanuel G. Blanchard from the Le Mans University (France) and me have developed special call for submission.

This Call is not asking for scientific papers, but contributions on the role of AI in industry and society, in relation to educational challenges and opportunities. Therefore, we are inviting practitioners, including teachers, educators, learners, education technology companies, product designers, and policy makers, to share AI in Education (AIED) examples and initiatives from industry, schools, higher education, workplaces, and society at-large. We expect this track to be a low barrier of entry allowing researchers to learn from practitioners and policy makers, and allowing practice and policy to be enriched, in turn, by rigorous evidence-based research:

Practitioners, Industry and Policy

After double-blind peer-reviews, we have selected 11 submissions for presentation during the main conference program of AIED 2025. In four thematic sessions, the practitioners, industry and policy representatives will highlight their design, experience and achievement.

All four PIP sessions with the 11 presentations can be found in the full AIED program by simply selecting the PIP track in the right navigation: We are looking forward to our discussions in Palermo!

Invited Co-Chair at AIED 2025

Christian M. Stracke

I’m very honoured to be invited as Co-Chair for the PIP Track at AIED 2025!

The International Conference AI in Education (AIED) 2025 is organizing a combined Practitioners, Industry and Policy (PIP) track for the first time. The call for contributions is open until 17th of March 2025. All proposals will be peer-reviewed and selected contributions can present in a thematic session during the official program of the AIED 2025 Conference. The 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education will take place in Palermo, Italy, from 22nd to 26th of July 2025.

This Call of the PIP track is not asking for scientific papers, but contributions on the role of AI in industry and society, in relation to educational challenges and opportunities. Thus, it is inviting practitioners, including teachers, educators, learners, education technology companies, product designers, and policy makers, to share AI in Education (AIED) examples and initiatives from industry, schools, higher education, workplaces, and society at-large. This track is therefore offering a low barrier of entry allowing researchers to learn from practitioners and policy makers, and allowing practice and policy to be enriched, in turn, by rigorous evidence-based research.

The call is open for contributions from a range of different educational contexts and professions to reflect the manifold implementations and perspectives in AIED. Next to researchers and learning designers, we especially invite AIED-related contributions from educators and learners, from industry and enterprise representatives as well as from policy makers, non-profit organizations and government bodies. To meet the call’s goals, we seek submissions that present implementations as well as strategies and policies on AIED. Proposed contributions should reflect on practical experiences with AI-supported education or bring together different stakeholders in this field. Most welcome are explicitly descriptions and reflections of practical implementations, strategies, and policies, and descriptions of personal experiences using AI in the educational domain from a practicing perspective.

All details about the Practitioners, Industry and Policy (PIP) track and its Call: https://aied2025.itd.cnr.it/index.php/maintrack/practitioners-industry-and-policy/

Webinar on Societal Impact of AI

Christian M. Stracke

I’m very pleased to hold a free webinar upon invitation by the Ministry of Education from Luxembourg!

My title: “The Societal Impact of AI”

The webinar takes place on Tuesday, 11th of March 2025 from 1 PM to 2 PM CET.
To join, you must register on the Moodle platform here: https://learning.eofai.lu

UPDATE: My slides are published now with an open and free license here:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15009832

Results of the 2nd AI&ED Conference

Christian M. Stracke

I was very pleased to co-organize the Second Conference “Regulating the Use of AI Systems in Education” on 24th and 25th of October 2024 in Strasbourg. During this interactive event, the Council of Europe invited all stakeholders to discuss the needs for international regulation of AI in education.

Overall, this 2nd AI&ED Conference was a huge success. It brought together all relevant stakeholder groups (researchers, teachers, students, enterprises, public authorities, policy makers and NGOs) which was considered as a strong asset and advantages. And a need for a 3rd Working Conference in 2025 was expressed to discuss in detail the upcoming proposals for the international AIED convention as binding legal instrument and the AI Literacy Toolbox that will be developed in the meantime.

The 2nd Conference facilitated a deep exchange of experiences and engaged discussions in the interactive sessions. While this combination was highly appreciated, many participants demanded for more general debates and group work dedicated to specific topics in parallel sessions. During a 3rd Conference in 2025, the sharing of experiences could be facilitated through pre-recorded videos and publication distributed in advance to allow more time for the general debates and group work collaboration.

In summary, the following recommendations were made:

  • Responsibility: In all AIED processes and aspects, there is always a human-to-human responsibility as the AI systems are developed, designed, implemented, offered and used by human beings with their specific responsibilities for the impacts of their activities.
  • Evidence: There is a strong need for evidence-based research to collect and analyse large-scale data and information about the impacts of AIED and AI Literacy implementations.
  • Holistic approach: The regulation of the AI use in Education (AIED) always requires the Education about AI (AI Literacy).
  • Policy makers: Representatives from CoE member states and their public authorities should present their ideas, proposals and action plans related to future AIED and AI Literacy.

Finally, the urgency of AI regulation in education as a special sector was confirmed: Current legal frameworks, such as GDPR and the EU AI Act, are insufficient to address education-specific challenges, particularly concerning children’s rights. It is important that the legal instrument for the AI regulation in education planned by the Council of Europe is aligned and complementary to the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, as well as to serve the core values of the Council of Europe, namely: human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.

More information about the Programme of the 2nd AI&ED Conference by the Council of Europe: https://opening-up.education/second-conference-on-ai-regulation-in-education-by-the-council-of-europe

More information about the mandate of the Council of Europe for the AI regulation in education can be found here: https://opening-up.education/mandate-for-aied-regulation-by-european-ministers

Published: Our Generative AI Manifesto

Christian M. Stracke

Published now:

The Manifesto for Teaching & Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Navigate the Future

Generative AI is reshaping higher education, offering tools to personalize learning, boost efficiency, and expand accessibility. But beneath the surface, it raises profound questions:

  • How do we maintain human oversight in algorithm-driven systems?
  • Are we safeguarding equity and amplifying diverse voices – or reinforcing biases?
  • How can we ensure that GenAI enhances, rather than erodes, creativity, critical thinking, and empathy in education?

This manifesto calls for thoughtful, evidence-based action to ensure GenAI empowers, rather than diminishes, our collective agency in education. Let’s reimagine the future of learning – ethically and inclusively.

📖 Read more: https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.16.4.777

Written together with:

Aras Bozkurt , Junhong Xiao , Robert Farrow , John Bai , Chrissi Nerantzi , Stephanie L. Moore , Jon Dron , Lenandlar Singh , Helen Crompton , Apostolos Koutropoulos , Evgenii Terentev , Angelica Pazurek , Mark Nichols , Alexander Sidorkin , Eamon Costello , Steve Watson , Dónal Mulligan , Sarah Honeychurch , Charles Hodges , Mike Sharples , Andrew Swindell , Isak Frumin , Ahmed Tlili , Patricia J Slagter van Tryon , Melissa Bond , Maha Bali , Jing Leng , Kai Zang , Mutlu Cukurova , Thomas Chiu , Kyungmee Lee , Stefan Hrastinski, Manuel B. Garcia , Ramesh Sharma , Bryan Alexander , Olaf Zawacki-Richter , Henk Huijser , Petar Jandric , Chanjin Zhen , Peter Shea , Josep M Duart , Chryssa Themelis , Anton Vorochkov , Sunagül Sani Bozkurt , Rob Moore , Tutaleni I. Asino

Published: Open Education for Safe Generative AI

Christian M. Stracke

Published:

Taming the Monster: How can Open Education Promote the Effective and Safe use of Generative AI in Education?

We have converted the question: We should not ask how Generative AI can improve (Open) Education but how (Open) Education can improve Generative AI!

The development, use, and timely promotion of Open Education (OE) has been effective in addressing myriad educational concerns, including inclusivity, accessibility and learning achievement, among many others. However, limited information exists in the literature concerning how OE could enhance Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), which is receiving extensive interest and criticism at this time. To address this research gap, this study relies on the Open Educational Practices (OEP) framework of Huang et al. (2020) to provide various OEP scenarios that could help to promote and facilitate the effective and safe adoption of GenAI in education. The findings of this study could provide guidelines on how relying on OEP when adopting GenAI could help in ensuring quality education which is the sustainable development goal (SDG 4) of the United Nations (UN).

📖 Enjoy reading: https://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v11i3.1657

Written together with:

Ahmed Tlili ,Michael Agyemang Adarkwah , Chung Kwan Lo , Aras Bozkurt , Daniel Burgos , Curtis J. Bonk , Eamon Costello , Sanjaya Mishra , and Ronghuai Huang

Martin Wolpers’ Lifetime Award

Christian M. Stracke

It was my huge honour and great pleasure to receive the Martin Wolpers’ Lifetime Award!

I got my first Lifetime Award from the Spanish Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) at the AGORA Conference on Tuesday 22nd of October 2024 in Logroño.

It says on the trophy: “To excellence in research, education and a significant impact on society”. That are exactly the three objectives that I’m fully committed to during my lifetime.

I hope that I can continue contributing to the global commons, our society and open education for all!

More about my Lifetime Award:

http://research.unir.net/blog/martin-wolpers-2023-award-christian-m-stracke/

More details about the award:

http://research.unir.net/blog/martinwolpers/