Current special issue opportunities include:

• Call for Papers: International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Special Issue: K-12 AI Education
  • Extended Abstracts (1,000 words): August 20, 2020
  • Feedback on Abstracts: August 31, 2020
  • Submission of Manuscripts: October 30, 2020
  • Reviews Due to Authors: January 15, 2021
  • Revisions Due: March 15, 2021
  • Second Round of Reviews to Authors: May 15, 2021
  • Final Manuscripts Due: June 15, 2021)
• CFP for Special Issues: Proposals for future special issues in IJAIED

Details on these opportunties are below.

Call for Papers

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Special Issue: K-12 AI Education

Special Issue Editors

• Ning Wang, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, USA

• James Lester, Center for Educational Informatics, North Carolina State University, USA

Motivation & Scope

It is widely recognized that AI is beginning to profoundly impact society around the globe. These developments are introducing new opportunities, presenting new risks, and fundamentally reshaping the current and future workforce. As such, we must now answer critically important questions: How can we prepare K-12 students for an AI-permeated future? How do K-12 students conceive of AI and what do they need to know to be effective consumers of AI technologies. What competencies do K-12 students need to acquire to be prepared for workplaces where human-AI teaming is the norm? What do future knowledge workers, including but not limited to those in STEM, need to learn in primary and secondary school to set the stage for their careers, which will no doubt require the ability to effectively interact with AI tools? How can K-12 education best prepare future AI developers, engineers, and researchers?

While the field of “AI in Education” has long focused on creating innovative AI technologies to support human learning, the goal of this special issue to stimulate discussion of “AI Education for K-12” i.e., educating K-12 students about AI. In a manner that is analogous to how we educate K-12 students about science or history, we now must develop curricula, pedagogies, and learning technologies (perhaps including AI-based learning technologies) to support AI K-12 education. This special issue seeks contributions that address core challenges in how to envision, design, develop, and implement AI K-12 education. We are particularly interested in submissions from highly interdisciplinary teams spanning AI and the learning sciences that report on emerging results including but not limited to the areas noted below.

Topics of Interest

• Standards for AI K-12 education
• Curricula for AI-12 education, especially those integrating AI with STEM education more broadly
• Ethics in AI K-12 education
• Empirical findings from AI-12 classroom studies
• Professional development for AI K-12 education
• Learning progressions for AI K-12 education
• AI-based learning environments for AI K-12 education
• AI education in informal settings

Important Dates

• Extended Abstracts (1,000 words): August 20, 2020
• Feedback on Abstracts: August 31, 2020
• Submission of Manuscripts: October 30, 2020
• Reviews Due to Authors: January 15, 2021
• Revisions Due: March 15, 2021
• Second Round of Reviews to Authors: May 15, 2021
• Final Manuscripts Due: June 15, 2021

Manuscript Submission Instructions: https://www.editorialmanager.com/aied/default.aspx

Please send abstracts and direct inquiries to Ning Wang (nwang@ict.usc.edu) and James Lester (lester@ncsu.edu).

IJAIED Fast review track cycle 2020

The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED) invites submissions for the 2020 Fast Cycle. This track means that authors and reviewers get the benefits of predictable deadlines. This track also maintains rigorous journal reviewing, including revision cycles which lead to papers of the highest quality.

Compared to standard submissions, this track uses strict deadlines for paper submission and review common to peer-reviewed conference proceedings. The benefit to reviewers is the predictability of workload since they pre-commit to do reviews right after the submission deadline. For authors, the benefit is that we can achieve tighter decision cycles, while maintaining high quality reviews.

Submission process and deadline

• Paper deadline: October 7, 2020
• Authors submit paper simultaneously to EM + abstract on EasyChair
• Decision to authors: December 7, 2020

Submissions should adhere to the journal's submission guidelines (https://www.springer.com/journal/40593/submission-guidelines).

Call for Proposals - Special Issue Themes

We are now accepting proposals for new thematic special issues. The submission should include similar information to that shown below for recent special issues:

• Names of the proposed Guest Editors, their affiliations
• The title and brief description
• Rationale and motivation for the issue in terms of the importance and timeliness of the topic and how it relates to the scope and vision of IJAIED
• Planned timing of the process
• Additional details of the topics that will help indicate the scope of the special issue
• Overview of potential authors and the work they are doing in the area.