Transforming Classrooms: Emerging AI Tools and Pedagogies
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Technology Enhanced Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 122
Special Issue Editors
Interests: educational technology; AI in education; teacher training
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping education, but the field is now moving beyond the initial experimentation towards a more practice-oriented stage. In the early phase of AI adoption, educators and learners mainly explored these tools for personal use: accessing information, summarizing texts, drafting reports, generating learning materials and supporting independent study. While these uses remain important, current educational needs increasingly call for research on how AI tools can actually be integrated into the teaching practice and how they can affect classroom interaction, pedagogy and learning outcomes. This shift is timely, as it is now clear that AI is gradually becoming part of mainstream educational environments and may soon be as common in classrooms as laptops or interactive whiteboards.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the actual use of AI tools in classroom teaching and learning. We consider contributions addressing empirical research, classroom interventions, design-based studies, case studies and pedagogical analyses that report how AI is used in real educational settings and what outcomes, opportunities and challenges emerge from its implementation.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:- AI-supported teaching strategies and pedagogical design;
- Empirical studies of AI integration in school and higher education classrooms;
- Student engagement and learning in AI-enhanced lessons;
- Teacher roles and orchestration for classroom AI use;
- Ethical, inclusive and responsible AI implementation in teaching practice.
- etc.
Dr. Ioannis Lefkos
Dr. Vasileios Neofotistos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- AI in education
- AI-enhanced teaching
- AI-enhanced learning
- educational transformation
- classroom pedagogy
- instructional practice
- classroom implementation
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