Tentative Workshop Information

1. Designing with Intention for Learner-LLM Collaboration: Towards a Community Definition of Collaboration Quality (DIAL)

List of organisers:

  • Mar Pérez-Sanagustín
  • Oleksandra Poquet

Short description:
This full-day participatory workshop, framed within the ALMA project (ANR-DFG), brings together researchers, educational designers, and higher education practitioners to examine CSCL collaborative principles and deliberate on their applicability to learner-LLM interaction. Through structured co-design activities, participants will develop domain-specific learning activity designs grounded in these principles, articulate collaboration quality criteria, and identify the technical requirements their implementation entails. The workshop will produce a community white paper consolidating its outcomes, directly contributing to an emerging research agenda at the intersection of TEL, CSCL, and AIED.

2. Good, Bad or Ugly? Mapping Ethical and Problematic GenAI Practices in Higher Education (ETHICAI-GenAIED)

List of organisers:

  • Bhoomika Agarwal
  • Natalia Spyropoulou
  • Alessandra Antonaci

Short description:
This interactive workshop builds a participant-generated knowledge base of existing generative AI practices in higher education. Through a “good / bad / ugly” classification exercise, participants will surface concrete cases of GenAI integration across teaching, learning design, assessment, student support, and institutional governance. They will then collectively articulate criteria that distinguish ethically sound, pedagogically valuable, questionable, or problematic implementations. The workshop
is designed as a community-building and idea-generation activity that connects researchers, practitioners, project teams, and policy-oriented stakeholders. Its outputs will feed into ETHICAI by enriching the mapping and comparative analysis of GenAI practices across micro, meso, and macro levels, within HEIs.

3. Multimodal Immersive Learning Systems 2026 (MILeS 2026)

List of organisers:

  • Khaleel Asyraaf Mat Sanusi
  • Daniele Di Mitri
  • Bibeg Limbu
  • Jan Schneider
  • Roland Klemke

Short description:
The MILeS 2026 workshop is organised in the context of the: 1) ECTEL’s Special Interest Group MILES (Multimodal Immersive Learning ExperienceS), which aims to develop AI-supported, data-intensive, multimodal, immersive learning environments for the independent learning of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills, and 2) NEXT.IN.NRW (Germany) research project GenAIvatar, which aims to revolutionize the creation of animated avatars for 3D applications by making this process simpler, more efficient, and more cost-effective through the use of the key technology of generative AI. This leads to a cross-domain approach that makes it possible to record the activities of experts in a multimodal manner and to use these recordings as blueprints for learners. With the help of AI-based analysis, learning progress is to be supported by automated error detection and automatically generated, individual feedback. This creates holistic, innovative environments for cultivating skills, in which personalised AI support enables individual learning processes based on complex data analysis.

4. Critical and More-than-Human Perspectives on AI in Education (MtH_AIED)

List of organisers:

  • Roberto Martinez-Maldonado
  • Patricia Santos
  • Simon Buckingham Shum
  • Yannis Dimitriadis

Short description:
Artificial intelligence—particularly generative AI—is rapidly reshaping education, offering new possibilities for personalised learning, adaptive support, and the design of novel educational experiences. At the same time, its growing presence raises fundamental challenges related to assessment, agency, inequality, governance, and environmental sustainability. As AI increasingly mediates how knowledge is produced and engaged with, it intensifies longstanding questions about what it means to learn and how educational systems should respond. Human-centred approaches, including Human-Centred AI and Human-Centred Learning Analytics, have played an important role in aligning AI with pedagogical values and human needs. However, these approaches may not be sufficient to address the broader socio-technical and ecological conditions shaping AI in education. This workshop advances a more-than-human perspective that foregrounds the entanglements between humans, technologies, institutions, and environments. It invites critical engagement with the assumptions underpinning current AI practices and explores alternative framings grounded in relationality, responsibility, and sustainability.

5. TEL for Interdisciplinary Project-based Learning in Higher Education and the Workplace: A Research Agenda for the Next Decade (TELIP)

List of organisers:

  • Sebastian Dennerlein
  • Tobias Ley
  • Amber Kornet
  • Michele Magno
  • Till Winkler
  • Victoria Abou Khalil
  • Pantelis Papadopoulos
  • Nikola Luburić
  • Carla Barreiros
  • Samantha Smidt
  • Alexander Steinmaurer
  • Zsolt Lavicza
  • Tobias Jenert
  • Christina Nyström

Short description:
To address today’s grand societal challenges, it is essential to promote learners working effectively across disciplinary boundaries. The prevalence of terms like multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary, or interprofessional learning illustrate this point. These forms of cross-boundary learning, subsumed under the term interdisciplinary learning in the following, often emerge through temporary project-based learning and working on shared challenges, whether in higher education by bringing together students from diverse academic backgrounds (e.g., project-based learning in interdisciplinary MSc study program) or in the workplace through forming cross-functional innovation teams (e.g., Dutch interprofessional learning communities to foster challenges in energy transition).

Learning holds great potential for addressing complex challenges and fostering active team learning at the same time, provided it is effectively implemented and facilitated. This underscores the need to research effective technology-enhanced approaches to iPBL in higher education and at the workplace.

6. CoCreate: Designing Intentional Educational Hackathons to Support Creativity and Entrepreneurship (CoCreate@ECTEL)

Website:https://cocreate-project.eu
List of organisers:

  • Irene-Angelica Chounta
  • Mona Münstermann
  • Kaimao Sheng
  • Jeanette Falk
  • Mari Hanikat
  • Alexander Nolte
  • Wangyiyao Zhou
  • Alexander Serebrenik

Short description:
This half-day workshop introduces participants to the CoCreate framework: a research-grounded,
practitioner-tested methodological resource developed through the CoCreate Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership (KA220-HED). The CoCreate consortium brings together three European higher education institutions (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; Aalborg University, Denmark; Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) and one private-sector hackathon organisation (Garage48, Estonia).

The CoCreate framework aims to support educators in planning and implementing educational hackathons to foster creativity and entrepreneurship as a formally integrated pedagogical approach. Unlike existing hackathon guides – which are typically experience-based, domain-specific, and focused on engagement rather than learning – CoCreate is grounded in systematic empirical research and addresses the full spectrum of educational design choices: goal-setting, theme selection, competition vs. cooperation dynamics, stakeholder involvement, participant recruitment, ideation methods, team formation, mentoring, curriculum integration, and assessment.

The workshop combines a structured presentation of the framework with hands-on design activities. We invite participants to use the CoCreate framework to draft a blueprint for an educational hackathon relevant to their own institutional context, receive peer feedback, and collectively reflect on challenges and opportunities. The outcome of the workshop will be a published technical report.

7. Extending the Human Experience of Education: A half day participatory workshop exploring what makes education human and how AI might extend it (EHEE)

List of organisers:

  • Marnick van Lith
  • Harold van Rijen
  • Christine Merie Fox
  • Kateryna Holubinka

Short description:
The workshop uses an interactive, AI-supported participatory format. It combines Nominal Group Technique for data collection, deep democracy for thematic reflection and the De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats build the results for the chosen themes.

8. International Perspectives on Integrating GenAI Into Co-Design (IPIGCD)

List of organisers:

  • Marisa C. Peczuh
  • Christopher Blommel
  • Laura Allen
  • Stephen Hutt
  • Blair Lehmane
  • Caitlin Mills
  • Angela E.B. Stewart

Short description:
In the proposed workshop, we will gather individuals from various disciplinary backgrounds, experience levels, and countries to discuss how genAI is a part of co-designing educational technologies. Workshop participants will share knowledge about existing co-design efforts with genAI, reflect on the ideal role of genAI in co-design efforts and solutions, and establish guidelines for engaging in this collaborative work.

9. AIM2READ: Aligning AI-Assisted Multimodal Learning Analytics Dashboards with Instructional Strategies for Reading (AIM2READ)

List of organisers:

  • Konstantinos Tsiakas
  • Francesca Zermiani
  • Milos Kravcik

Short description:
Reading is a complex cognitive process, yet traditional assessments only capture its final outcomes, such as comprehension accuracy or test performance. Multimodal learning analytics (MMLA) and AI offer the possibility of making the invisible processes of reading visible: eye movements, reading patterns, attention allocation, and comprehension strategies. Yet a persistent challenge remains: how can these rich data streams be translated into dashboards that are not merely technically sophisticated, but pedagogically meaningful and actionable for teachers?

This half-day interactive workshop addresses this question by bringing together researchers and practitioners to systematically map MMLA dashboard outputs to instructional strategies for reading. The workshop opens with invited talks that introduce the core problem of linking MMLA to reading instruction, using an AI-powered eye-tracking dashboard for reading comprehension as a central use case to ground the discussion. Participants may also submit and present their own use cases and contexts, which may include other MMLA modalities (e.g., audio, video, log data), other reading formats (e.g., reading maps, collaborative reading, code reading), or other learning domains entirely, enriching the conversation with diverse perspectives and design approaches. We invite submissions from researchers, educational scientists, practitioners, developers, and designers working at the intersection of MMLA, AI, and reading instruction.

10. From Reflection to Design: Rethinking Student Engagement in Technology-Enhanced Learning (R2D-TEL)

List of organisers:

  • Mónica Aresta
  • Carlos Santos
  • Luís Pedro
  • Marisa Lousada
  • Luciana Albuquerque

Short description:
Over the past decade, there has been growing interest among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in defining and evaluating student engagement. Conceptually, student engagement is often regarded as an umbrella construct encompassing behavioral, cognitive, emotional/affective, and agentic dimensions. Closely linked to motivation, coping strategies, and resilience, engagement reflects both students’ active participation in learning activities (learning engagement) and their connection to the wider educational context (school engagement). Recognized as a strong predictor of learning outcomes, student engagement is commonly defined as a student’s investment in learning, characterised by active participation and sustained effort within a reciprocal relationship where institutions also play a critical role in fostering supportive learning environments. While technological development enables learning experiences that are increasingly flexible, ubiquitous, and diverse, it also raises critical questions about the quality, sustainability, and potential unintended consequences of engagement in digital learning environments. Acknowledging these challenges, this workshop critically explores the evolving concept of student engagement in TEL through a multidimensional approach grounded in digital ethics, positive computing, and reflective design. Moving beyond narrow or technology-centred interpretations of engagement, the workshop invites participants to reflect on how behavioral, cognitive, emotional, social, motivational, contextual, and agentic dimensions are shaped by the technologies we design, adopt, and use in educational settings. Through collaborative and reflective activities, participants will examine how different TEL tools can both enable and constrain meaningful, sustainable, and ethically responsible learning experiences.

11. Educational robots and robotics at the intersection of AI: Designing, Learning, and Teaching in Intelligent Embodied Environments – 4th International Workshop of the EATEL SIG EduRobotX 2026 (EduRobotX 2026)

List of organisers:

  • Nardie Fanchamps
  • Rinat Rosenberg-Kima
  • Ilona Buchem
  • Maria Perifanou

Short description:
This workshop explores the emerging intersection between educational robots, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) focusing on how intelligent, embodied systems can transform teaching and learning. As AI capabilities increasingly become embedded in physical robotic platforms, new opportunities arise for adaptive, collaborative, and experiential learning. At the same time, this convergence raises important pedagogical, ethical, and design challenges. The workshop will bring together researchers, educators, and practitioners to discuss how AI-enhanced robots and robotics environments can support learning across contexts from K-12 to higher education and lifelong learning. Participants will engage in interactive sessions, including demonstrations, co-design activities, and critical discussions on the role of robots and robotics in technology-enhanced learning ecosystems. Specifically, this workshop aims to explore how the integration of AI into educational robots and robotics environments and applications can enhance learning experiences, while identifying effective pedagogical models, design principles, and ethical frameworks for their use in diverse educational settings. We invite best practices showcasing innovative applications in learning and development. Selected authors from expert studies will be invited to participate in a co-creation process to establish a jointly agreed research agenda, which will be submitted as a collaborative article for a planned special issue of a journal focusing on the latest developments in the field of educational robots and robotics at the intersection of AI.

12. From Feedback Delivery to Feedback Use: Designing AI-Enhanced Tools for Feedback Literacy (PolyFeed)

List of organisers:

  • Aalaiya Sawani
  • Freeha Azmat

Short description:
This half day workshop introduces and critically explores PolyFeed, a Chrome extension integrated with Moodle that is designed to help students engage more actively with the written feedback they receive on assessments. Originally developed at Monash University and currently being evaluated through a laboratory study at the University of Warwick, PolyFeed supports students in moving beyond simply reading feedback towards interpreting, reflecting on, and acting upon it. The tool allows students to highlight and categorise feedback comments, write reflective notes, create personal action points, and access optional AI assisted interpretations of feedback. It also provides a personal analytics dashboard that helps students identify recurring strengths, common areas for improvement, and outstanding actions across assessments over time.

13. MiXai^learn 2026: Multimodal Interactions and Explainable AI for Reflective Physical and Online Learning (MiXai^learn 2026)

List of organisers:

  • Rwitajit Majumdar
  • Huiyong Li
  • Brendan Flanagan
  • Shin-Ichiro Kubota
  • Soumyadeep Bhattacharya
  • Aditi Kothiyal
  • Prajakt Pande
  • Olga C. Santos
  • Irene-Angelica Chounta

Short description:
This half-day workshop discusses the application of explainable AI and multimodal interactions with personal devices, tangible electronics and social robots for fostering reflective learning practices in physical and online learning scenarios. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners in technology-enhanced learning, learning analytics, AI, sensing technologies, and human-centred design to examine how cyber-physical learning environments can support reflection, metacognitive agency, and responsible human-AI collaboration. It will combine short presentations, an expert panel, a hands-on platform session, and collaborative group work to build a shared TEL agenda for reflective AI-enhanced learning.