Future of education and learning in times of AI
Track 16
Track chairs
Track description
Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, Agentic AI and emerging multi-agent systems, is fundamentally reshaping how knowledge is produced, acquired, evaluated, and applied across educational and workplace learning contexts. New competencies and skills are required to navigate these different tasks, environments and work challenges. At the same time, these developments accelerate a shift from stable knowledge structures toward dynamic and continuously evolving knowledge systems that challenge traditional assumptions about curricula, expertise, and learning processes. Rather than merely augmenting existing teaching and learning practices, AI challenges core assumptions about pedagogical roles, authorship, assessment, expertise, and learning processes across institutional boundaries.
The track welcomes submissions that investigate how AI reshapes teaching, learning, and competence development across universities, professional training environments, and organizational learning ecosystems. We particularly invite contributions that investigate how AI reconfigures pedagogical roles, pedagogical content, redistributes epistemic authority between humans and intelligent systems, and enables new forms of personalised, collaborative, and workplace-integrated learning. Relevant topics include the redesign of curricula and competencies, such as AI literacy, digital judgment, and metacognitive capabilities required for working productively with AI-generated knowledge. The track also welcomes research on AI-supported co-creation of teaching materials, adaptive learning pathways, and hybrid or immersive learning environments. In addition, we invite contributions that explore new assessment approaches addressing the declining reliability of traditional authorship-based evaluation formats. Adopting a socio-technical perspective, the track welcomes submissions that systematically examine how AI reshapes educational systems and organizations in the context of emerging data-driven learning ecosystems that increasingly connect formal education, workplace learning, and digital platforms. Overall, this track provides an opportunity to exchange conceptual ideas and empirical findings. We particularly encourage empirically grounded qualitative and quantitative studies as well as design science research studies that develop and evaluate innovative approaches for integrating AI into teaching and learning practices within socio-technical learning environments.
The track builds on an established stream of research on digital learning and education within the ECIS and AIS community, while extending these discussions by focusing on generative AI and multi-agent systems as drivers of structural change in learning infrastructures and knowledge practices.
The track directly contributes to the ECIS 2027 theme Bridging Digital Borders by examining how AI-enabled learning ecosystems and novel AI-enabled teaching and learning practices connect universities, workplaces, and digital platforms, thereby reorganizing learning across institutional, organizational, and technological boundaries. The described developments are particularly visible in information systems education, where knowledge evolves rapidly and boundaries between human intelligence and AI are shifting substantially.
As an illustrative example of these broader transformations and their implications for teaching, learning, and curriculum design, and given sustained interest in AI and digital education research, we expect approximately 40 submissions to this track.
Fast-Track Opportunity: Selected submissions with a strong teaching-case or digital teaching materials focus may be invited for fast-track consideration in the Journal of Information Technology (Section: Teaching Cases (JIT-TC, https://journals.sagepub.com/home/TTC)
Topics of interest
- Agentic teaching and learning approaches in higher education and professional training contexts, including adaptive learning pathways and instructional content
- Novel forms of teaching materials enabled by generative and agentic AI and human–AI co-creation, and their implications for instructional design, assessment, and the orchestration of learning processes
- Intelligent tutoring systems and agents for personalized learning support
- Redesign of curricula and the reconfiguration of teacher and learner roles, responsibilities, and learning orchestration in AI-enabled knowledge environments
- Redesign of information systems education through generative AI, particularly interactions among learners, teachers, instructional content, and new forms of peer learning and co-creation
- Epistemic authority between humans and intelligent systems in AI-enabled teaching and learning environments
- Assessment approaches beyond authorship-based evaluation formats in AI-mediated learning environments
- AI-based learning data ecosystems and their implications for learning across educational and organizational contexts, data-driven competence modeling, and organizational transformation
- Future skills and competence development for working with AI-generated knowledge and agentic systems, including AI literacy, prompt literacy, digital judgment, and metacognitive capabilities
- Learning analytics for analyzing, modeling, and predicting learning trajectories, knowledge development, and learning outcomes
- Hybrid, virtual, and immersive learning environments in AI-enabled teaching and learning
- Game-based and interactive human–AI learning approaches for collaboration and engagement in AI-enabled learning environments
- Challenges and socio-technical implications of AI-enabled adaptive workplace learning, reskilling, and upskilling
- Ethical challenges and unintended risks of AI use for learning processes, competence development, and working with AI-generated knowledge, including risks of deskilling and overreliance
- Research-informed teaching cases on AI-enabled transformations of curricula, pedagogical roles, assessment practices, and workplace-related competence development
Associate editors
Paula Bräuer
Kiel University (Germany)
Jongbok Byun
Business School, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul (Korea)
Michael Cahalane
UNSW Business School (Australia)
Philipp Ebel
University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
Anna Gieß
Fraunhofer ISST (Germany)
Neha Gupta
University of Warwick (United Kingdom)
Sebastian Hobert
TH Lübeck (Germany)
Andreas Janson
University of Hamburg (Germany) & University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
Bijan Khosrawi-Rad
Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany)
Maria Kutar
University of Salford (United Kingdom)
Lucas Memmert
University of Zürich (Switzerland)
Andy Nguyen
University of Oulu (Finland)
Roman Rietsche
Bern University of Applied Science (Switzerland)
Matthias Schumann
University of Göttingen (Germany)
Matthias Söllner
University of Kassel (Germany)
Thiemo Wambsganss
Bern University of Applied Science (Switzerland)