Fwd: Deadline extension SLERD 2026 - 11th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development
Tiffany Barnes
From: Carlo Giovannella <mi...@roma2.infn.it>
Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Subject: Deadline extension SLERD 2026 - 11th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development
To: Carlo Giovannella <mi...@roma2.infn.it>
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DEADLINE EXTENSION -> April 2nd 2026 (new hard deadline)
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11th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development
2026: AI enhanced learning as bridge toward future jobs and a better society
on-line format
www.slerd.org
Contacts:
1st: nikoustavr [at] gmail [dot] com (Stavros Nikou - conference chair)
2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com
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call for papers
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SLERD 2026 will host also the 7th edition of the International Student Design Contest
-> see call for proposal and demo
deadline for submission of proposal: April 15th
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SLERD 2026 is organized by the University of Strathclyde Glasgow in collaboration with ASLERD.
Building
on a decade of dialogue and innovation, SLERD 2026 invites
academics, practitioners and policy makers to stimulate a critical
debate and explore how artificial intelligence can practically and
ethically augment learning ecosystems, linking classrooms,
workplaces, and communities to foster human flourishing.
With the theme “AI-enhanced
learning as a bridge toward future jobs and a better society”,
the conference emphasizes the overarching nature of AI-supported
smart learning ecosystems focusing on aligning technological
advances with inclusive pedagogies, ethical AI use, professional
upskilling, equitable access, regional development, and
responsible governance.
As AI reshapes education, skills, professions, and civic life,
SLERD 2026 welcomes students, academics, practitioners, and
policymakers, to share evidence, tools, and case studies that
demonstrate real impact; from AI-supported teaching and assessment
to co-creation with learners, educators and stakeholders; from
micro-credentials and reskilling pathways to lifelong learning
ecosystem; from black-box AI to ethical and responsible data
practices and algorithmic transparency; from limited access AI
environments to community spaces that foster digital inclusion.
The 11th edition is both a milestone of our evolving community and
a call to action. We aim to surface actionable models and design
principles that help institutions, regions, and industries create
adaptive, trustworthy, and human-cantered learning ecosystems that
prepare people not just for the next job, but for meaningful
participation in society.
SLERD 2926 will feature a Keynote
by
MARGARIDA ROMERO (IIIA CSIC)
on
CREATIVE USES OF AI FOR TEACHERS AND LEARNER AGENCY.
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Conference lenses
The themes for this year’s conference emphasize the integrative nature of smart learning ecosystems: places for smart education, people-centred design, and supportive technologies, with a focus on:
- Human-centred AI in education: co-design, pedagogy, innovative AI-supported teaching, assessment integrity, explainability, and ethics.
- Skills, employability & inclusion: lifelong learning, reskilling/upskilling, micro-credentials, work-based learning, and pathways that reduce inequalities.
- Ecosystems, data & governance: infrastructure, interoperability, trust, safety, privacy, sustainability, and regional innovation strategies.
General Topics of interests
General topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: places for smart education, people in place centered design for smart education, supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education
Places for smart education
- future of institutional learning
- interplay between formal and informal learning
- new educational models and settings
- continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning
- role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education
- dual education and other alternation scheme approaches
- monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region)
People in place centered design for smart education
- general frameworks and methodological advances
- design, data and other relevant literacies
- teachers’ and students’ continuous training (literacies, skills and competencies)
- initial teacher education
- smart citizens’ literacies, skill and competences
- communities and co-design in smart learning
- sharing & participatory practices
- open access to any resource and disparity
- educational design for all
- cultural influences
- ethical aspects in smart learning
Supportive technologies and tools for smart education
- AI for smart learning ecosystems: tools, human centered AI (HCAI). and explainable AI (XAI)
- human-computer interaction (HCI), user experience (UX), design for the experience, design processes and thinking
- knowledge graphs and applications
- text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis
- real/virtual communities and social network analysis
- interoperability and application of open/smart data and services
- safety & security in education
- IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies
- adaptability to educational contexts and citizens
- VR, AR, MR XR and metaverse in education
Important dates:
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• Deadline for papers submission: April 2nd, 2026 (extended hard deadline)
• Notification to the authors: May 10, 2026
• Camera ready paper: June 10, 2026
• Conference: June 22-33, 2026
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Submissions:
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Accepted papers also presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of the IxD&A Journal (https://ixdea.org/; ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science (Citescore: 2.5).
Papers should be written according to the Instruction for Authors available at https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/.
Papers submission is handled through OJS – https://ojs.ixdea.org/index.php/ixdea/about/submissions. (select section: SI: SLERD 2026 – long paper or SI: SLERD 2026 – short paper). SLERD and IxD&A follow a double-blind reviewing process, thus papers need to be fully anonymized.=========================================================
Information about SLERD 2026 will continuously updated on the ASLERD
Linkedin page -> link
Facebook page -> link
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See ASLERD website for
information on membership, fees and legal
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