Call for Papers /// Nineteenth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies, 16-17 April 2026, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece + Online
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Nineteenth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies
University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece + Online
16-17 April 2026
PLENARY SPEAKERS
William Cope, Professor, University of Illinois, USA
Mary Kalantzis, Professor, University of Illinois, USA
Chryssi Vitsilaki, Professor Emerita and former Rector, University of the Aegean, Greece
Spyridoula Stamouli, Specialized Scientific Personnel in Language Technology, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center, Greece
Vassilis Katsouros, Research Director, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center, Greece
Yannis Mastrogeorgiou, Special Secretary for Strategic Foresight, Government of the Hellenic Republic; Coordinator of Greek Advisory Committee on AI, Greece
SPECIAL FOCUS: HUMAN-CENTERED AI TRANSFORMATIONS
The Twenty-Second International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society invites educators, researchers, technologists, and policymakers to explore the changing role of digital computational technologies as defining forces in our personal, professional, and public spheres. Building on the long view of technological epochs, we invite critical reflections on the original Utopian aspirations for digital tools - aspirations that promised broader participation, democratized knowledge, and flourishing bottom-up communities. We ask: how have these hopes held up, especially in light of new pressures to harness big data, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things? Similarly, we consider shifts in the cultural and epistemic production of "knowledge societies", examining how digital infrastructures have simultaneously decentralized and intensified power in classrooms, workplaces, and everyday life. Our inquiry extends to the ethical and social dimensions of these ongoing transformations, probing the ways in which emerging technologies reconfigure norms, values, and global interconnections.
This year's annual focus, Human-Centered AI Transformations, spotlights AI as a transformative but also deeply human endeavor. We welcome proposals that rethink AI not as a replacement for human expertise, but as a collaborative partner in meaning-making, teaching, learning, and knowledge-sharing. How might AI-powered tools personalize education, expand inclusivity, and foster new forms of participatory culture without succumbing to bias or widening social inequities? What does it look like to design AI systems that honor local contexts, uphold ethical values, and nurture ecological sustainability?
Through diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, we seek to imagine futures in which AI augments human potential rather than automating it away. We invite papers, panels, workshops, and creative presentations that critically engage these themes, offering fresh insights into the interplay of technology, knowledge, and society, and forging pathways toward more equitable, human-centered technological epochs.
CONFERENCE THEMES
THEME 1: CONSIDERING DIGITAL PEDAGOGIES
THEME 2: NEW DIGITAL INSTITUTIONS AND SPACES
THEME 3: TECHNOLOGIES OF MEDIATION
THEME 4: DESIGNING SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
UBIQUITOUS LEARNING: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Exploring the affordances for innovative and transformative forms of learning offered by the new information and communications technologies.
ABOUT US
Founded in 2006, the e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies Research Network is brought together around a common concern for new technologies in learning and an interest to explore possibilities for innovative pedagogies.
RELATED CONFERENCES
We also offer related thematic events in our other Research Networks that you might be able to attend in-person. This way we build for our Research Network Members flexible, and at the same time resilient, spaces for communication, engagement, and participation.
View other Common Ground Research Networks conferences: https://cgnetworks.org/conferences/conference-calendar
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Web address: https://ubi-learn.com/2026-conference
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