xAI in Education

This workshop focuses on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education, emphasizing the importance of explainable AI (xAI) in teaching, learning and technology-based assessment activities. This workshop aims to analyze challenges and opportunities for xAI in education by bring together students, educators,researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and discuss recent achievements and lessons learned by using AI in education and the importance of xAI in teaching, learning and technology-based assessment activities, in the development of information and communication technology infrastructure for digital education ecosystems. The importance of xAI for Education 4.0 and Education 5.0 is also tackled.

Organizing Committee

• Dr. Claudia-Melania Chituc, Leibniz Ins tute for Research and Informa on in Educa on (DIPF), Germany
• Prof. Moise Gabriela, Associate Professor at Petroleum-Gas University of Ploies , Romania
• Prof. Eva Tuba. Assistant Professor., Department of Computer Science, Trinity University, USA

Program Committee

TBA

Topics of interest of xAI in Education include (but are not limited to):

• Methods for xAI in education and teaching
• Software tools developed for xAI in education
• Experiences from using xAI software in education, teaching, and technology-based assessments
• Ethics and xAI in education
• xAI and Education 4.0 and Education 5.0
• Strategies for developing and using xAI methods and tools in teaching, learning, and technology based assessment
• Limitations of using xAI in education

Important dates

The xAI in Education workshop follows the AIAI 2026 official date.

• Paper Submission Deadline: 28 February, 2026
• Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 19 April, 2026
• Camera Ready Submission/Registration: 8 May, 2026
• Early / Author registration by: 8 May, 2026
• Conference Dates: 16 – 19 July, 2026

Submission instructions

All papers should be submitted either in a doc/docx or in a pdf form and will be peer reviewed by at least 2 academic referees. Contributing authors must follow the AIAI2026’s paper format guidelines as far as the IFIP AICT file format.

Papers will be peer reviewed by at least two (-2-) members of the workshop’s program committee.

Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of AIAI VOLUME, under the Springer IFIP AICT Series.

Submission details can be found at AIAI conference submission page.

You can submit you AI4GD paper here https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AIAI2026

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