Educational Technology and Design

1. Why Universal AI Rules Don’t Work: How to Build Responsive AI Policies with Your Students

Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
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Students are already using AI and want to do so ethically and transparently. In this webinar, Dr. Lydia Cao (OISE, University of Toronto) shows how to co-create responsive AI policies that adapt to different contexts and learners.

Key Topics:

• • • Context matters: aligning AI use with subject and learning goals
    • Scaffolding for different age groups and developmental stages
    • Building open dialogue around values and academic integrity
    • Designing adaptable, evolving classroom policies

2. What AI Is Doing to Student Thinking and What Educators Can Do About It

Date: Monday, November 3, 2025
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
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Generative AI rewards efficiency but may reduce curiosity and deep inquiry. Dr. Victoria Livingstone (Johns Hopkins University) and Jeppe Klitgaard Stricker (Aalborg University, Denmark) discuss how to preserve creativity and critical thinking in the AI age.

Key Takeaways:

• • • Why ambiguity and uncertainty drive real learning
    • From asking questions to writing prompts and how to push back
    • Teaching strategies that foster reflection and inquiry
    • How AI challenges traditional assessment and evaluation

3. Transform Learning for Every Student: Using AI to Make Open Education Resources More Accessible and Personalized

Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
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AI can make Open Education Resources (OER) more dynamic, personalized, and inclusive. Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd (Contact North | Contact Nord) shares how to leverage AI to enhance quality, access, and engagement.

Key Takeaways:

• • Turn static materials into adaptive, interactive learning tools
  • Personalize lessons for diverse learner needs
  • Improve accessibility through translation and assistive tech
  • Maintain quality and trust through ethical, transparent AI use

We hope you’ll join these timely discussions on how AI can transform teaching and learning — ethically and creatively.

This Panel Discussion is part of the pre-WCQR2026 program. The 10th World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR2026) will be held from 20 to 22 January 2026 at the Complutense University of Madrid – Faculty of Education, Spain, and from 02 to 05 February 2026 Online.

The employment of “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), especially Large Language Models (LLMs), in qualitative inquiry is the subject of much current discussion and debate. These concerns often focus on the ethics of deploying AI in qualitative research (e.g. Christou 2023; Marshall & Naff 2024). Less attention has been paid to 1) qualitative approaches to studying generative AI and its ethical implications in social practices, organizations, and relationships, and 2) how studying AI might (re-)shape the assumptions, approaches, and ethics of qualitative inquiry.

Our conversation will be animated by the following questions:

• • How are you deploying qualitative research to study the ethics and values that are embedded in and shaped by AI/LLMs?
  • What does your research help us understand about the ethics of AI?
  • What are the implications of your research for studying “the human,” as qualitative research aims to do?
  • And how does studying AI-human relations (re-)shape how you think about ethics and values in the conduct of qualitative research?

September 30th, 2025 | Online (Free)

09:00 AM (UTC-06:00 – Calgary, Edmonton, Denver, Albuquerque, El Paso…)
11:00 AM (UTC-04:00 – New York, Washington, Miami, Toronto, Montreal…)
04:00 PM (UTC+01:00 – Lisbon, London, Dublin…)
05:00 PM (UTC+02:00 – Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Warsaw…)
11:00 PM (UTC+08:00 – Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Manila, Perth…)

How to register: Zoom site

Call for Papers

• • Full Papers & Symposia: Deadline is 10 October 2025
  • Workshops & Round Table Proposals: Deadline is 21 November 2025

We invite submissions that engage critically and creatively with the field of networked learning and address one or more of the following conference themes:

• • Equity, inclusion, and digital transformation in networked learning (e.g., accessibility, digital divide, inclusive technologies, equitable access to learning resources, transformative digital practices, teaching across borders)
  • Policy and AI in networked learning (e.g., AI governance, policy frameworks for AI in education, ethical AI implementation, regulatory considerations, AI-driven educational reforms)
  • Future of teaching and value-based AI supported networked learning (e.g., innovative pedagogies, Human-centered AI, values-driven AI applications, ethical AI integration in education)
  • Ethical and responsible innovation and research (e.g., privacy, surveillance, inclusion, criticality, equity and social justice, relational pedagogies, eco pedagogies)
  • Spaces, places and modalities for networked learning (e.g., online, blended, hybrid, boundless), design, implementation and evaluation of networked learning. Networked learning in formal, non-formal and informal contexts of learning and development across the lifespan (e.g., early childhood, school, higher education, professional development, community learning, large-scale and small-scale open courses)
  • Theory and theorisation advancing the field of networked learning
    Philosophies, theories, methodologies, and research designs for networked learning (e.g., postdigitality, posthumanism, phenomenography, phenomenology, social network analysis, socio-material approaches)

Conference site: www.networkedlearning.aau.dk/nlc-2026

The 21st International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2025) (https://iis-international.org/its2025-generative-systems) is a globally  recognized venue for presenting cutting-edge academic and research advancements in intelligent educational technologies. The conference covers a broad range of topics, including intelligent and adaptive learning systems; the application of artificial intelligence (AI), data mining, and natural language processing in educational contexts; and the use of these technologies to enhance games, virtual reality environments and cognitive robots for education.

The conference offers free online participation! This means you can listen to cutting- edge research and discuss with top researchers in the areas of artificial intelligence and educational technologies for free.

Registration

Register now at: https://iis-international.org/registration-its2025/
Registration deadline: May 30, 2025
Please note that registration is mandatory for participation in the conference. We encourage you to secure your spot as soon as possible!

Conference Details & Schedule

The conference will take place from June 3 – 6 in Greece and online.

The full schedule is available at: https://iis-international.org/registration-its2025/ Please note that all scheduled times are listed in local Greece time (GMT +3).

As an online participant, you are welcome to attend mixed sessions (including live-streamed onsite and online presentations) and fully online sessions. And of course, attendance is flexible –you can choose the sessions that are of interest for you and that work with your time zone.

University of Regina
May 13 to 16, 2025

Tuesday, May 13
Time: 11:00 a.m. (Sask/CST)
KEYNOTE: Open and the Oligarchs: Planting Seeds in a World on Fire
Speaker: Dr. Robin DeRosa

Wednesday, May 14 (Dr. John Archer Library Day)
Time: 11:00 a.m. (Sask/CST)
KEYNOTE: Racing Towards a Wasted Future: Generative AI and the Resurgence of Nuclear Energy
Speaker: Dr. Marco Seiferle-Valencia

Thursday, May 15
Time: 11:00 a.m. (Sask/CST)
KEYNOTE: Then. Now. The Future: Directions for Open Education in the Changing World of Higher Education
Speaker: Dr. Glenda Cox

And . . . much more . . .

https://ctl.uregina.ca/webinars-workshops/oebootcamp2025