Call for Full and Short Papers

Introduction

The 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with and for Learning Sciences: Past, Present, and Future Horizons (WAILS 2025) is a high-quality forum focused on achievements, challenges, solutions, and future perspectives concerned with the adoption of artificial intelligence methods and techniques in the context of learning sciences. Building on its successful inaugural edition, WAILS 2025 brings together researchers and practitioners working within academia, industry, and government, and coming from different fields such as computer science, education, cognitive science, economics, psychology, sociology, and human-computer interaction, with the goal of fostering a fruitful dialogue across disciplines. The accepted papers are going to be published by Springer into an LNCS post-workshop proceedings volume, and submitted for indexing to DBLP, Google Scholar, and Scopus.

Deadlines

• Paper submission: September 18, 2025
• Notification: October 23, 2025
• Camera-ready submission: November 6, 2025

Note: all the deadlines are at 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time.

Topics

WAILS 2025 welcomes contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, education, cognitive science, psychology, sociology, ethics, economics, and human-computer interaction. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theoretical and methodological foundations
  • AI models informed by learning theories, pedagogy, or cognitive science
  • Educational and psychological theories guiding AI design and evaluation
  • Frameworks linking AI research with educational and social science
  • Responsible and transparent data practices in educational contexts
  • Emerging paradigms and novel perspectives on the role of AI in the learning
• Design and engineering of educational artificial intelligence
  • Human-centered and participatory design of intelligent learning systems
  • Co-design approaches involving educators, learners, and institutional actors
  • Software engineering for reliable, inclusive, and ethical educational AI
  • Accessibility, interoperability, and robustness in AI-powered learning tools
  • Functional and non-functional requirements in educational technology design
  • Approaches to designing educational modules or programs that promote AI literacy
• Empirical studies and evaluation
  • Longitudinal, qualitative, and mixed-method research on AI in education
  • In-situ evaluation of AI systems across formal, informal, or hybrid learning
  • User studies involving students, teachers, parents, and administrators
  • Measurement of learning outcomes, engagement, and behavioral impact
  • Studies assessing the effectiveness, transferability, and impact of AI literacy programs
• Socio-technical and ethical perspectives
  • Digital divide concerning AI between instructors and students
  • Explainability, transparency, and trust in educational AI
  • Fairness, bias mitigation, and inclusive design in AI applications
  • Privacy, data governance, and ethical data use in learning systems
  • Psychological and sociological effects of AI-mediated learning
  • Instructors engagement for the responsible usage of AI tools
  • Legal, policy, and institutional dimensions of AI adoption in education
• Applications and emerging technologies
  • Intelligent tutoring, coaching, and adaptive learning systems
  • Educational recommender systems and personalized learning pathways
  • Learning analytics for formative assessment and educational decision-making
  • Generative AI and large language models in educational contexts
  • AI applications for accessibility, multilingualism, and global education equity

Submission

Platform

Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically in a PDF format, through the CMT submission system, by selecting the type “Full Paper" or “Short Paper” based on their length. The link to the submission system will be available soon.

Format

We encourage two types of submissions (reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate), in the Springer single-column format.

• Full papers (12 to 15 pages at most; references, figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgments, and any other content count toward the page limit) should report on substantial contributions. They should reflect innovations and have a thorough discussion of related work.
• Short papers (6 to 11 pages at most; references, figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgments, and any other content count toward the page limit) discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a full paper – they report on a smaller or simpler-to-describe research work on some advances that can be described, set into context, and evaluated concisely.

Templates

The authors should submit manuscripts for review in the Springer single-column format. Templates for authors are given below:

• Latex
• Overleaf
• Word

Non-anonymity

Submissions will be reviewed under a single-blind process; thus, authors are not required to anonymize their manuscripts before uploading them.

Non-dual policy

There is no dual submission policy, which is why submitted manuscripts must not be simultaneously under review nor submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for this workshop. A violation of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious infraction of scientific ethics, and appropriate measures will be implemented in response.

Ethical and human subjects considerations

Submissions are expected to include a discussion of ethical considerations, as well as the impact of the presented work and/or its intended application, where appropriate. The authors are expected to comply with ethical standards and regulatory guidelines associated with human subjects research, including research involving human participants and research using personally identifiable data. Submissions reporting on such human subjects research must include a statement identifying any regulatory review the research is subject to or explaining the lack of required review.

Review Process & Camera-Ready Submission

Review process

Reviewers will evaluate papers based on their significance, originality, rigor, and contribution to the field. Papers that are out of scope, incomplete, or lack sufficient evidence to support the basic claims, may be rejected without full review. Furthermore, reviewers will be asked to comment on whether the length is appropriate for the contribution.

Camera-ready information

The accepted papers will be submitted to the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS) and must be compliant with the guidelines provided by the LCNS. The accepted papers will be subject to further revision to meet the requirements of the camera-ready format required by Springer. We recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf to minimize the extent of reformatting. Users of the Word template must use either the version for Microsoft Word for Windows, Macintosh Office 2011, or Macintosh Office 2016 (other formats like Open Office are not admitted) to avoid incompatibility issues. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a consent-to-publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship are not allowed. Instructions for preparing the camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be provided after acceptance. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be submitted via CMT.

Registration and Presentation Policy

Each accepted paper must be accompanied by a full author registration, completed by the early registration deadline. Please kindly note that a single registration covers up to one paper accepted in the full or short paper track, and up to one paper accepted in the doctoral symposium track. Each accepted paper must be presented in person to be included in the proceedings, published by Springer and available via the SpringerLink Digital Library. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available online by Springer.

Program Chairs

• Carla Limongelli, Rome Tre University, Italy (carla.limongelli [at] uniroma3.it)
• Mirko Marras, University of Cagliari, Italy (mirko.marras [at] unica.it)

Acknowledgements

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.