AI for Innovative Pedagogy, Educational Value, and Instructional Impact
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Technology Enhanced Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2026 | Viewed by 1449
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This special edition focuses on the responsible adoption and use of artificial intelligence (AI) needed to support student learning in compulsory schools and institutions of higher education. As the global education community embarks on an era of AI, it is crucial that instructors and educational decision-makers balance critical, evidence-based approaches to AI with practical, replicable techniques for using it effectively in the classroom. With the rapid development and deployment of AI-powered educational tools, instructors must be critical in their selection of instruments and methods for integrating them into their instruction. For this to happen, instructors need fluency in AI literacy, clear information about which tools best meet their needs, and practical guidance for effective classroom implementation.
In response, this special edition solicits three broad themes for submissions:
- Advancing instructors’ AI literacy through sustained professional development programs offered across schools, universities, and organizations;
- Evaluative resources (e.g., frameworks and rubrics) and techniques to support educational stakeholders in assessing the instructional value of AI tools; and
- Instructional methods for using AI to enact experiential learning, project-based learning, personalized learning, simulations, and additional pedagogical techniques.
These themes represent broad areas that authors may address in their submissions. If authors have further ideas related to the special edition’s topics, they should kindly submit an inquiry. Lastly, for methodological approaches, submissions of case studies, content analyses, survey studies, and reviews of the literature resulting in practical tools and knowledge are preferred over studies focused on beliefs, attitudes, and acceptance of AI as an educational technology.
Dr. Todd Cherner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- AI
- teaching
- tool selection
- pedagogy
- assessment
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