The Special Issue on “New trends in Artificial Intelligence for Higher Education in the COVID-19 era: Emerging Technologies, Challenges, and Pedagogy-informed Applications” presents current research aimed at understanding how Education will be shaped by emerging information technologies. The focus is not only at presenting advances of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Education but also at presenting results of how Educational practices and/or pedagogies are being complemented or even reshaped by AI in higher education. This special issue aims at disseminating innovations, knowledge, and lessons learned during the abrupt changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to help the readership become familiar with new pedagogical-informed, AI-driven educational practices that have emerged or were innovated during this time. In particular, we would like to compile a set of papers that show how the disruption of the COVID-19 has changed the way we teach at university level. Our vision is geared towards documenting the challenges faced by Education at this level and the novel pedagogical approaches afforded by AI technologies. We are calling for papers addressing (but not limited to) one or several of the following questions:
How are state-of-the-art AI technologies driving new approaches for learning?
Are emerging technologies (wearables, virtual/augmented reality, 3D printing, drones, and robots, among others) in combination with AI, driving a change in well-established pedagogical practices?
What are the challenges that emerging technologies pose to students, teachers, and other stakeholders?
How will these emerging technologies support education in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains?
What are the ethical considerations that new technologies are overseeing?
How can emerging technologies be blended to develop new and effective pedagogies?
What is the future of Education, and what is the role of new technologies?
The special issue welcomes research and viewpoint papers as described in the IJAIED website. We encourage authors to present their research results or work in progress that address the previous questions but with an emphasis on presenting pedagogically-inspired Educational innovations driven by AI in the following
Topics
Bridging the digital gap across different sectors of society.
Innovative AI technologies for education.
Ethics in online and in-person teaching and learning setups
AIED driving disruption to traditional Educational pedagogies.
Future of Education where AIED technology plays a central role in the teaching-learning process.
Teaching and assessment of competences with technology.
Data driven analysis to guide the future of Education.
Provide intelligent support to foster collaboration in online settings.
The papers should hold a significant novelty in the research design, methodologies, and results in their theoretical or practical applications to the listed areas of interest for publication in this issue.