AI and the Future of Education

About

This stream focuses on the risk and opportunities of AI in education. Does AI empower students and educators? Or does it present a set of new challenges?

AI for Teaching and Education (Cool.org/AVPN Collaboration)

We have helped develop resources on AI for teachers and educators, arising from our collaboration with Cool.org and AVPN under the AVPN Project with AI Literacy Training from CAIDE. These resources and courses are evidence-based, aimed at helping teachers integrate AI safely and ethically, featuring lesson plans and professional learning filled with practical strategies and expert insights to enhance student learning outcomes, all mapped to the Australian Professional Teacher Standards (AITSL), and able to be logged as elective PD hours with your state's teaching regulatory authority.

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Learn about AI for Classroom Teachers (including Early Years)

Find all the project's AI Resources

Students and AI Mediated Systems

CAIDE has heavily worked with Dr. Bingyi Han, a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow affiliated with the Department of Computer Science at Saarland University and a DAAD AINet Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, on projects concerning AI in education. Before moving to Germany, she completed her PhD in Human–Computer Interaction at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Dr Simon Coghlan and others. Her PhD research examined the ethical, social, and pedagogical implications of AI in education. Her work focuses on how key stakeholders, particularly students, experience AI-mediated systems, with attention to fairness, power relations, agency, and human–AI collaboration in learning contexts. Bingyi’s research combines qualitative methods, participatory design, and mixed-methods experiments. Her research interests include ethical and human-centred AI design in education; student agency and critical participation in AI-mediated learning environments; and the governance of emerging educational technologies

Research Outputs

Bingyi Han, Simon Coghlan, George Buchanan, and Dana McKay. 2025. Who is Helping Whom? Student Concerns about AI-Teacher Collaboration in Higher Education Classrooms. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 2, Article CSCW206 (May 2025), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3711104

Bingyi Han, Sadia Nawaz, George Buchanan, and Dana Mckay. 2023. Ethical and Pedagogical Impacts of AI in Education. In: Wang, N., Rebolledo-Mendez, G., Matsuda, N., Santos, O.C., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13916. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36272-9_54

Bingyi Han, George Buchanan, and Dana Mckay. 2023. Learning in the Panopticon: Examining the Potential Impacts of AI Monitoring on Students. In Proceedings of the 34th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 9–21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3572921.3572937 [Best Paper Award]

Bingyi Han, Sadia Nawaz, George Buchanan, and Dana Mckay. 2025. Students’ Perceptions: Exploring the Interplay of Ethical and Pedagogical Impacts for Adopting AI in Higher Education. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Jan 2025:1-26.https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-024-00456-4

Rashika Bahl and Bingyi Han. 2025. Before the beginning: International students negotiating the transition to life in Australia through the use of Reddit or Xiaohongshu. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 9.https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00074_1

Bingyi Han, Simon Coghlan, George Buchanan, and Dana McKay. 2025. The Values of Academic Integrity in the Era of Surveillance AI in Classrooms. Chapter 8 on AI2—Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Academic Integrity (AI) - Navigating Ethical Challenges of AI in Education. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-1875-3_8;

Bingyi Han, Simon Coghlan, George Buchanan, and Dana McKay. 2025. Being watched by AI in the classroom: Listening to the voices of students. Medium, Oct 12 2025. https://medium.com/acm-cscw/being-watched-by-ai-in-the-classroom-listening-to-the-voices-of-students-b40d20bbbb72

Theme Leaders

This theme is led by A/Prof Peter Woelert and A/Prof Jeanne Marie Iorio of the Faculty of Education.