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            <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Video Lessons]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secondary School Students’ Awareness of Artificial Intelligence, Usage Trends, and Academic Achievement]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The increasing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in today’s educational environments makes it important to examine students’ awareness of and usage trends regarding these technologies. In this context, the purpose of this study is to investigate whether middle school students’ awareness of and usage trends regarding artificial intelligence differ based on their academic achievement scores. Additionally, the study aims to investigate whether middle school students’ awareness and usage trends regarding artificial intelligence (AI) differ based on variables such as grade level, gender, and screen time. The study was conducted using the descriptive survey model, one of the quantitative research methods. The study population consisted of secondary school students enrolled in Niğde Province, while the sample comprised 704 secondary school students attending eight schools designated for the 2025–2026 academic year. The Artificial Intelligence Awareness and Usage Trends Scale was used as the data collection tool, and the obtained data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and the Scheffe test. The research findings revealed that students’ AI awareness and usage trends differed significantly according to their academic achievement levels and grade levels. In particular, it was found that students with higher academic achievement and those in higher grades exhibited higher levels of AI awareness and usage trends. While a significant difference in favor of male students was found regarding the gender variable, no significant difference was found regarding screen time. In light of these findings, it is recommended that educational programs be developed to increase artificial intelligence awareness and conscious usage tendencies at the secondary education level.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The impact of university students’ critical thinking skills and information sharing behaviors on digital media literacy skills]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This study investigates the impact of university students’ critical thinking skills and information-sharing behaviors on their digital media literacy levels. Conducted with 301 students from various departments during the 2023–2024 academic year, the study adopted a relational screening model and employed three main scales: Digital Literacy Scale, Information Sharing Behaviors Scale, and Marmara Critical Thinking Tendencies Scale. The results revealed significant and positive relationships between critical thinking, information sharing, and digital media literacy. However, no significant difference was found between those who received media literacy education and those who did not. The findings highlight the importance of fostering critical thinking skills to enhance students’ digital media literacy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Student and faculty perceptions of AI: A qualitative study with focus groups]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In Spring 2025, librarians at a regional comprehensive university in Southwest Florida conducted focus groups with faculty and students to explore their perceptions and experiences with artificial intelligence (AI). Previous research suggests that both groups recognize potential benefits of AI for learning, teaching, and productivity while expressing concerns regarding misinformation, ethics, and future societal impacts. The purpose of this study was to explore faculty and student perceptions of AI knowledge, training, and ethical use within a higher education context. Using a phenomenological approach, researchers conducted separate focus groups with faculty and students and analyzed the resulting discussions for recurring themes. Faculty participants expressed concerns related to critical thinking, institutional guidance, access to practical training, and adapting instruction to an AI -enabled environment. Student participants emphasized misinformation, future employment, and broader societal impacts of AI. Participants in both groups viewed AI as a tool that could be used ethically when applied appropriately. Although limited by its small sample size and single-institution context, the findings suggest opportunities for AI literacy initiatives and continued discussion regarding ethical AI use in higher education.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Designing the Future: The Role of AI in Evolving Interior Design Education]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This is a conceptual paper with an exploratory survey component to illustrate attitudes in the Tunisian context. The advent of computer-aided design (CAD) revolutionized interior design, transitioning practitioners from manual methods to digital platforms. This technological shift ignited debates about the impact on design quality and authenticity. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) presents a similar paradigm shift, necessitating a critical examination of its role in interior design education. This paper delves into the potential and ethical implications of AI in interior design pedagogy. It explores how AI tools can enhance creativity and problem-solving skills, while addressing concerns about their potential to undermine human agency. The research proposes strategies for integrating AI into curricula, emphasizing its role as a tool to augment, not replace, human creativity. By adopting a proactive approach, interior design education can equip students to navigate the evolving technological landscape, ensuring they can harness AI for innovative and ethical design practices. This will empower them to shape the future of interior spaces that seamlessly blend technological advancement with human insight.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Institutional policy responses to generative AI in European higher education: a scoping review of published research]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in higher education has made it increasingly urgent to define institutional responses capable of addressing its pedagogical, ethical, organisational and regulatory implications. Within this context, this study presents a scoping review of published research on policy responses to GenAI in European higher education. The review was conducted through searches in Scopus, Web of Science and ERIC, with inclusion criteria defined according to the SPIDER framework. The final corpus comprises ten studies published between 2024 and 2025, examining policies, guidelines and other institutional documents relating to GenAI. To synthesise the corpus, the review adopts an interpretive framework structured around four lenses: regulatory, pedagogical-integrative, implementation-oriented, and equity-, inclusion- and sustainability-oriented. The findings show that institutional policy responses are predominantly represented as concerned with regulating the use of GenAI, especially in relation to academic integrity, transparency, accountability, and permitted and non-permitted uses. At the same time, the included studies also frame GenAI as a resource to be integrated, albeit cautiously, into teaching, learning, assessment and AI literacy development. Overall, the review shows that the governance of GenAI in European universities is represented as still evolving and marked by uneven levels of policy development and institutional formalisation.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The effects of supplementary reading materials on the strategic reading skills of EFL students: an experimental study]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This study examined the effect of supplementary reading materials on the development of strategic reading skills among Kurdish undergraduate EFL learners. The present study adopted a pre-test–post-test control group design to investigate the role of supplementary reading materials in enhancing skimming and scanning strategies among 155 Kurdish undergraduate EFL learners. Data were analyzed using paired-samples t-tests and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). While both the control and experimental groups showed significant improvement over time, the experimental group demonstrated greater gains in reading strategy performance. The ANCOVA results revealed a statistically significant group effect on post-test scores after controlling for initial reading ability, indicating that supplementary materials contributed to improved strategic reading development beyond regular instruction. Gender-related analyses were treated as exploratory and did not reveal statistically significant differences. The findings highlight the instructional value of integrating supplementary materials into EFL reading courses to support the development of strategic reading skills.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[From Digital Literacy to AI Literacy: Developing a Comprehensive Framework for the Age of Artificial Intelligence]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly permeates various sectors, existing digital literacy frameworks prove insufficient for addressing the unique challenges posed by autonomous, data-driven AI systems. This study aims to develop a comprehensive AI literacy framework that extends traditional digital literacy models to encompass the competencies required for effective and ethical engagement with AI technologies.Through a multi-phase research process conducted between 2022 and 2025, we employed two scoping reviews and one systematic literature review. The first phase analysed 35 articles on AI literacy conceptualization, the second examined 12 studies on AI literacy assessment tools, and the third systematically reviewed 87 studies from an initial pool of 323 records across major databases including Web of Science, SCOPUS, ERIC, and IEEE Xplore.Building on Calvani et al. (2009) digital literacy framework, we propose an AI literacy framework with four interconnected dimensions: cognitive (understanding AI concepts and mechanisms), operational (practical skills for AI interaction and application), critical (evaluating AI-generated content and societal impacts), and ethical (navigating moral implications and responsible AI use). The framework addresses key gaps in how AI literacy is conceptualized, moving beyond tool-based competencies to include understanding of autonomous systems.The transition from digital to AI literacy represents a paradigm shift requiring new competencies for educational, professional, and societal contexts. The framework provides a foundation for curriculum development, assessment design, and policy formulation to ensure individuals can critically engage with AI technologies while addressing their ethical and social implications.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Story problems and Artificial Intelligence for inclusive design in mathematics: a study with Italian prospective special education teachers]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[We present the results of a study involving 175 Italian prospective secondary school special education teachers. Participants were engaged in a Workshop and were asked to design inclusive striped problems, that is, mathematical story-problems obtained by combining Zan’s Context and Question (C&amp;Q) model with the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Participants worked on design activities in small groups with and without ChatGPT support. The aim of the research is to investigate the influence of the Workshop on the participants’ idea of inclusive mathematics and inclusive mathematics teaching, and to understand the support – positive or negative – offered by ChatGPT in designing inclusive learning activities in mathematics. The results of a qualitative analysis show how the training of special education teachers, as designers of inclusive teaching activities, is crucial to promoting inclusive mathematics education.The Workshop influenced the participants’ view of the discipline and its teaching from an inclusive perspective. Artificial Intelligence was seen by participants as a tool that can facilitate the work of the special education teacher and a useful starting point for inclusive design. However, participants emphasize the generalist character of the feedback offered by ChatGPT and how the mediation and experience of the teacher is always necessary.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Enhancing secondary EFL students’ writing proficiency using GenAI: A comprehensive approach]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This cross-sectional study explores how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools influence English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) writing among third-year secondary students in Algeria. Using a sample of 105 students and their teacher, the research combined classroom observations, a semi-structured interview and a questionnaire to assess improvements in grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure and organization, and to gauge perceptions of GenAI. Observations revealed that integrating GenAI tools into pre-writing, drafting and revision fostered collaborative learning, heightened engagement and encouraged metalinguistic awareness. The teacher interview underscored benefits such as personalized feedback and increased autonomy, but cautioned against over-reliance, highlighting the need for prompt-design training, ethical guidance and the cultivation of critical thinking. Moreover, students’ perceived impacts varied by sub-skill. GenAI also bolstered their confidence in writing. The study concludes that GenAI can enhance lexical richness and organizational skills when thoughtfully embedded into classroom practice, but it does not obviate the teacher’s role. A blended approach—balancing automated feedback with human instruction—appears most conducive to developing confident, independent writers in non-English-dominant contexts.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Digcomp III - Return of responsibility and The rise of AI. First reflections on the DigComp 3.0 framework.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Establishing Flow through education: supporting learners who have experienced complex trauma.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This article provides a series of fictitious case studies as vignettes to exemplify how educators can support complex trauma impacted children in school to establish Flow. Flow contributes to effective immersion in learning, where educators can quickly recognise states and emotions which disrupt the Flow, and can lead to disengagement in learning. Through consideration of the case studies, educators can envisage solutions to challenges they face in their learning spaces, and most importantly support learners impacted by complex trauma to get the most out of their education and to reach their potential. This is more than Trauma Informed Practice; it is a social-emotional- psychological-physiological theory that underpins and supports daily educational practices with children and youth.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Multidimensional Framework for Equitable Facial expression Synthesis in Educational Virtual Environments]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Facial expression synthesis in virtual environments is critical for educational applications, yet existing systems struggle to balance realism, cultural inclusion, and accessibility. This paper presents a multidimensional framework derived from a systematic review of 127 studies (2014–2024). The framework addresses three key tensions: (1) the realism-accessibility trade-off in generative models, (2) the imperative for cultural inclusion in expression datasets, and (3) the need for pedagogical grounding of expressive agents. The framework’s four dimensions—technical, pedagogical, sociocultural, and operational—offer a replicable blueprint for equitable educational tools. By shifting the evaluation focus from raw technical performance metrics (e.g., F1-score) to contextualized pedagogical utility and establishing a clear theoretical distinction from existing affective computing models, this work provides a nuanced and actionable guide for developers and educators.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rethinking dualism: exploring the opportunities and limits of a ‘third space’ in human-machine interaction]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This paper explores a new perspective on the relationship between human intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI), challenging the traditional dualistic and competitive view. Drawing on the concept of a “third space” – inspired by postcolonial and philosophical theories such as those of Homi K. Bhabha and Donna Haraway – this study examines how co-creation can become a symbiotic process in which humans and AI enhance each other’s capabilities. By analyzing the ontological differences between data-based processing and conceptual understanding, we argue that competition between human and artificial intelligence is a false paradigm. Through concrete examples of textual and visual co-crafting, the paper highlights how AI can serve as a creative partner in generating new forms of “distributed intelligence.” However, we also critically examine the power dynamics, control mechanisms, and potential for digital colonialism that characterize current AI deployment. The paper concludes by proposing that AI should not be seen as a replacement for human intelligence but as a collaborative entity that requires democratic governance to foster positive and sustainable change.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Determination of Classroom Teachers’ Conceptual Knowledge Levels and Attitudes Towards Education 4.0]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This study aims to investigate the conceptual knowledge levels and attitudes of classroom teachers toward Education 4.0 in the context of primary education in Hatay, Türkiye. The research sample comprised 419 classroom teachers employed in primary schools in the central districts of Hatay, Türkiye, selected using a simple random sampling technique. A quantitative research design employing a survey model was used. The “Education 4.0 Conceptual Knowledge Level and Attitude Scale” served as the data collection tool. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed, confirming the validity and reliability of the scales. The Education 4.0 Conceptual Knowledge Level Scale comprised a single dimension with 23 items, while the Education 4.0 Attitude Scale included six dimensions with 35 items. Data were analyzed using the SPSS 24 package through independent samples t-tests, one-way ANOVA, and correlation analyses. The findings revealed that teachers’ conceptual knowledge levels regarding Education 4.0 were moderately sufficient, while their attitudes were generally at a high level. These results indicate that although teachers have positive perceptions of Education 4.0, further efforts are needed to enhance their conceptual understanding and technological readiness in educational contexts.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Virtual Communities of Practice for generations Z and Alpha: a systematic review of the main social networking sites used in formal education]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The use of social networking sites (SNSs) in teaching is of increasing importance, for it puts into question how what we have, until the digital revolution, understood formal education to be. The earliest social media came about and were developed parallel to generations Z and Alpha. This review analyzed at least 8 articles published between 2019 and 2023, found on the databases Web of Science and Scopus, and sorted into four categories of research cases focused on the main SNSs used in formal education. The selected studies show that Whatsapp, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok can have a positive impact on student and teacher motivation, collaboration, and the reaching of learning objectives. Further, this paper brings to light the advantages that SNSs can bring to faculty’s professional development and to learning, in addition to their value as motivating resources and community-forming structures.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Will AI automation force us to transform school and university curricula?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Empowering educators to enhance engagement in a virtual learning environment]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This qualitative modified e-Delphi study sought to obtain consensus from a panel of K-12 online education experts as to the most effective virtual strategies for student engagement in an online learning environment. Data was obtained through multiple questionnaires of 15 online education experts in northern California with three or more years of experience teaching virtually in a virtual learning academy. By rating engagement strategies, consensus on the most effective strategies for online engagement was obtained. The three rounds of questioning provided response to the question: What are the most effective engagement strategies for online learning? Based on the engagement strategies that received a consensus level of 70% or greater, screen sharing, discussion, lecture, and using an engaging curriculum were found to be extremely important. Participants also found teacher modeling, clear instructions, and discussing test taking to be very important engagement strategies. The engagement strategies that emerged were discussed in three themes, which included Delivery Practices, Engagement and Interaction, and Support and Accessibility. The results of this study may empower teachers when teaching virtually to enhance student motivation and help reduce students’ feelings of isolation.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Examining the effect of physical presence on perceived classroom climate in hyflex spaces]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This study seeks to examine the impact of the physical presence of others on perceptions of classroom climate across multiple learning spaces, particularly HyFlex spaces, at the post-secondary level. Following a review of the role of others within social learning theory, student insights and perceptions concerning the physical presence of their peers was gathered using the Connected Classroom Climate Inventory. Student feedback indicated that impressions of classroom climate across various iterations of HyFlex spaces were viewed as both connected and supportive by students. The unpredictability of the physical presence of other students within the modified HyFlex learning space still allowed for respect for diverse learning styles and cooperation among students to be detected.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Exposure to Target Language Media among Algerian Learners of English: Preferences and Gender Dynamics]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This study examines the genre preferences and gender differences in Algerian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ exposure to English-language media. 71 Algerian undergraduate learners of English completed a structured survey exploring the extent to which they are exposed to different types of English media outside of the classroom. Descriptive as well as inferential statistical analyses were conducted to explore genre preferences and gender differences in media exposure. The results showed that Algerian EFL learners mostly listen to English songs, use the internet, and watch subtitled movies and TV programs in English. Meanwhile, participants reported limited exposure to books, video games, newspapers, and magazines. Gender differences were found in internet use, books, and video games. Implications are provided for EFL teachers and practitioners based on these findings.]]></description>
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