XAI-Ed 2025: Pedagogy-Founded Explainable AI for Transparent, User-Centered AI in Education AIED 2025 Conference - University of Palermo Palermo, Italy, July 22-25, 2025

The XAI-Ed Workshop explores the intersection of Explainable AI (XAI), education, and human-centered design, with a strong focus on pedagogical foundations, stakeholder agency, ethical implications, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The workshop will be held in the AIED2025 conference.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full Research Papers (6–10 pages, including references)  

        Original research with completed results and rigorous evaluation.

• Short Papers (3–5 pages, including references)  

      Including but not limited to:

• Work-in-progress
• Practitioner reports
• Conceptual or theoretical contributions
• Positional papers

All submissions must be written in English, double column, double-blind, PDF format preferred.

Submission Templates: Latex, Word.

List of Topics

• Pedagogical and learning-theory foundations for XAI
• Human-centered and stakeholder-driven XAI design
• Tools, methods, and frameworks for XAI in education
• Ethical, legal, and societal considerations (e.g., European AI Act)
• Evaluation and real-world deployment of XAI systems in EdTech/AIED

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Hasan Abu-Rasheed, University of Siegen, Germany
• Mutlu Cukurova, University College London, United Kingdom
• Hassan Khosravi, The University of Queensland, Australia
• Jeroen Ooge, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Christian Weber, University of Siegen, Germany
• Luca Longo, Technological University Dublin, Ireland

Program committee

• Paul Prinsloo, University of South Africa, South Africa
• Gabriella Casalino, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
• Irene-Angelica Chounta, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Francisco Javier Bellas, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
• Jordan Barría Pineda, University of Pittsburgh, United States
• Yifei Gao, University College London, United Kingdom

Publication

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed (at least two reviews per paper). 

All accepted and presented papers in XAI-Ed 2025 will be published as open-access CEUR Workshop Proceedings, by CEUR-WS.org

Venue

The conference will be held in the AIED2025 conference at the Conference Venue of the University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to: Hasan Abu-Rasheed (hasan.abu.rasheed@uni-siegen.de)