The Special Education Degree Conference 2025 was held on June 3 at Vetenskapens hus in Luleå, bringing together future special educators, researchers, teachers, and school leaders to explore practice-based research and innovation in the field. The event opened with welcoming remarks followed by several insightful presentations, including a quantitative study on teachers’ attitudes towards student […]
The Special Education Degree Conference 2025, held on June 3 at Vetenskapens hus in Luleå, brought together future special educators, researchers, teachers, and school leaders to discuss practice-based research and innovation in special education. The event featured presentations on topics such as teachers’ attitudes toward student transitions in secondary schools and the challenges faced by […]
In spring 2025, the Management Committee of Drumcondra Education Centre (DEC) organised a series of awareness-raising events in Ireland to disseminate AI4EDU results to educators, policymakers, and education stakeholders. Three online sessions (May–June 2025) targeting policy makers and education stakeholders reached a combined audience of 99 participants, while an in-person workshop held in Dublin on […]
On Saturday, December 6, the University of Cyprus (ReSciTEG) and the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute co-organised a national event to present the project results with emphasis on policy recommendations inspired from the AI4EDU project. Educators, researchers, students, and policy stakeholders came together to explore:– How GenAI works and what it really means for teaching and learning– What AI4EDU pilot data reveal about […]
The Final Conference of the project entitled Open Classroom Conference 2025, “Empowering Educators and Learners for the Age of AI,” was held on November 7–8, 2025, at the premises of Ellinogermaniki Agogi School. The conference was supported by the Open Technologies Organization and eTwinning, and was held under the auspices of EDEN. The main objective […]
Before kicking off the Open Classroom Conference 2025, the AI4EDU team gathered for our final consortium meeting at Ellinogermaniki Agogi. We spent the day tying up final deliverables and reports, exploring exploitation opportunities, reconnecting in person, and enjoying some well-earned time together with plenty of great conversations (and a bit of sunshine too!). After three […]
From January to May 2025 classroom pilots were conducted across the four project countries to explore how AI tools support teaching, learning, and student academic performance, motivation and engagement. For SB, a control–experimental group comparison approach was adopted: In the experimental group, students used SB either outside class (e.g., for self-study, homework, and test preparation) or […]
Before the pilots, teachers and students in all four countries participated in dedicated training sessions to familiarise themselves with the AI4EDU tools and evaluation instruments. Sessions focused on using the Study Buddy and Teacher Mate assistants for several teaching and learning activities, e.g. lesson planning, content creation, concept explanation etc. as well as on informing […]
Navigating The New Frontier — HumAInology, Creativity and the Code Within Dr. Daithí Ó Murchú © October 2025 Abstract This paper, positioned as BLOG 16 in the evolving AI4EDU series, explores the intersection of AI Singularity, STREAMS education (Ó Murchú, 2019/Appendix 1), and HumAInology (Ó Murchú, 2024/ Appendix 2) — the emerging pedagogy of human–AI […]
AI4EDU takes the stage at BCE2025!with Anna Vacalopoulou, Spyridoula Stamouli, Giorgos Paraskevopoulos, Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Gregory Milopoulos, Marios Papaevripidou, Ph.D., Theodoros Karafyllidis, Sofoklis Sotiriou, Vassilis Katsouros At the 6th Barcelona Conference on Education, we’re presenting:“Enhancing teaching and learning with conversational AI agents: Pilot testing and impact assessment in real classroom settings.” This work explores the educational […]
