Mindful TEL: Learning Technologies Shaped with Intention

This year’s theme, "Mindful TEL: Learning Technologies Shaped with Intention," sets the tone for the conference’s three confirmed keynote talks. Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia) will speak on personalised, explainable AI and what it means for AI in education. Rupert Wegerif (University of Cambridge, and founder of the Digital Education Futures Initiative) will ask what education is for in the age of AI, arguing for designing learning technology around collective intelligence rather than individual performance alone. Katie Stasaski (Google DeepMind) will present evidence from longitudinal studies, including one run across UK secondary schools, on how intentional pedagogical design shapes AI tutoring outcomes, drawing on DeepMind’s work integrating pedagogy into Gemini via Guided Learning.

The conference will be hosted at the UNED Associated Centre in Valencia, located in the historic Casa de la Misericordia educational complex in the L’Olivereta district. It is jointly organised by the UNED Valencia team as local host and the School of Computer Science (ETSI Informática) of UNED in Madrid.