This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2025, held in Trier, Germany, during September 8–10, 2025.The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: Curricula and Computer Science Concepts; Teachers’ Perspective; AI and Digital Literacy; Programming, Problem Solving, and Computational Thinking.

This book presents new ways of facilitating design thinking, through the combination of cognitive design strategies and information technologies. It provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the traditional and digital design processes and activities that are employed in architecture, computational design, communication design and graphic design. In response to evolving design practices, including the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI), this fully updated and expanded edi...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2023, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, during October 23–25, 2023.The 14 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They are organized in four topical sections named: artificial intelligence and its applications; competitions, problem solving, and computational; robotics and unplugged modal...

Artificial intelligence (AI) opens new opportunities for STEM education in K-12, higher education, and professional education contexts. This book summarizes AI in education (AIED) with a particular focus on the research, practice, and technological paradigmatic shifts of AIED in recent years.The 23 chapters in this edited collection track the paradigmatic shifts of AIED in STEM education, discussing how and why the paradigms have shifted, explaining how a...

Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment examines the use of natural language technology in educational testing, measurement, and assessment. Recent developments in natural language processing (NLP) have enabled large-scale educational applications, though scholars and professionals may lack a shared understanding of the strengths and limitations of NLP in assessment as well as the challenges that testing organizations face in implementation. This first-of-i...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer Assisted Assessment, CAA 2015, held in Zeist, The Netherlands, in June 2015.The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers present current developments in technology-enhanced assessment. Topics covered include: automatic item generation, computer adapted testing, the use of multimedia in assessment, e-assessment policies.

This edited book is a collection of selected research papers presented at the 2022 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education Technology (AIET 2022), held in Wuhan, China, on July 1–3, 2022. AIET establishes a platform for AI in education researchers to present research, exchange innovative ideas, propose new models, as well as demonstrate advanced methodologies and novel systems.The book is divided into five main sections – 1) AI in Education in the Post-...

This Open Access book explores the automated identification of media bias, particularly focusing on bias by word choice in digital media. The increasing prevalence of digital information presents opportunities and challenges for analyzing language, with cultural, geographic, and contextual factors shaping how content is portrayed. Despite the interdisciplinary nature of media bias research across fields like linguistics, psychology, and computer science, existing work often tackles the pro...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design, CONVERSATIONS 2021, which was held during November 2021.Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.The 12 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 25 submissions. The papers in the proceedings are structured in four topical groups: Chatbot User Insight, Chatbots Supporting Collaboration and Social Interaction, and Chatbot UX...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2024, held in Budapest, Hungary, during October 28–30, 2024.The 14 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: curricula and computer science concepts; problem solving, algorithms and programming; teacher’s perspective.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2020, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in November 2020. Due to COVID-19 related travelling restrictions the conference had to be switched to online format.The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Tasks for Informatics Competitions; Engagement and...

The two-volume set LNCS 16063-16064 constitutes the proceedings of 20th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2025, which took place in Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham, UK, September 2025.The total of 43 full papers, including 37 research papers, 4 blue-sky and 2 industry papers, as well as 16 demos and 32 posters papers presented in EC-TEL 2025 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions. They focus on all aspects of dynamic interdisci...