At a defining moment in an AI-driven yet turbulent world, AIEH2026 invites educators and researchers worldwide to explore future educational scenarios that can guide AI toward humane, meaningful, and responsible futures.
Future Educational Scenarios and TransformationsThe conference invites dialogue on new visions of future education, for example:
AI Companions for Students
1. How can learning spaces provide each learner with a personal AI companion—virtual or robotic—acting as peer, tutor, tutee, alter ego, or even animal companion?
2. How can AI companions adapt to individual pace, personalize
content, and offer timely support?
3. How might AI free teachers focus more on cultivating virtues, habits, creativity, and critical thinking?
1. How do classrooms become global spaces where students collaborate across borders in virtual labs?
2. How does AI-powered translation enable them to tackle real-world problems together?
3. How can learning be transformed
into an active mission that builds empathy and cultural understanding from a young age?
4. What other AI-supported educational contexts can we imagine?
1. How can our existing research—on tutoring, collaborative learning, social-emotional learning, seamless learning, interest-driven creator-based learning, Sustainable Development Goal-based learning, and other emerging approaches—be enhanced by AI or
artificial companions?
2. How can these insights help transform today’s systems into future-ready educational models?
Emerging from sustained dialogue and reflection within an international scholarly community, and informed by publications from UNESCO and the OECD, Global Harwell—though still nascent—is proposed as a shared global educational goal that places harmony and wellbeing at the center of human development (https://globalharwellgoal.org/). The term blends global, harmony, and wellbeing, reflecting the conviction that education should not merely advance knowledge, skills, or economic productivity, but foster humane, balanced, and responsible ways of living in an increasingly interconnected world.
Grounded in insights from both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions, Global Harwell frames education as a process of humanization oriented toward human flourishing. Thinkers such as Confucius and Aristotle, along with widely shared ethical principles akin to the Golden Rule (“do unto others as you would have them do unto you”), converge in their concern for how human beings may live good, meaningful, and responsible lives. These perspectives align with contemporary conceptions of wellbeing as a holistic integration of physical, mental, and social dimensions, as reflected in frameworks such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Seligman’s PERMA model. Accordingly, Global Harwell emphasizes the cultivation of balanced relationships—within the self, among individuals and communities, between humanity and technology, and with the natural environment.
In the age of artificial intelligence, Global Harwell offers an ethical compass for educational design and innovation. It asks whether AI and educational systems enhance or undermine harmony and wellbeing, and calls for learning environments that cultivate compassion, fairness, responsibility, and meaning alongside cognitive growth.
Ultimately, Global Harwell reframes education beyond knowledge and skill acquisition and economic productivity—toward benevolence, equity, justice, balance, and shared human flourishing.
The ConferenceAt this conference, participants will discuss the evolving roles of AI as a tool or an artificial companion, reflecting on how these shifts will reshape learning, relationships, work, and global collaboration in the coming era of the Seamless AI World.
Sessions will address both opportunities and risks. Topics range from personalized learning, human–AI co-creation, AI-supported collaboration, and inclusive access to ethical dilemmas, ill-seamlessness, privacy concerns, and value misalignment.
Participants will exchange and co-create future AI-driven educational scenarios. They will define new paradigms and research directions. They will also draft actionable frameworks for global education systems. This includes advancing the Global Harwell concept and identifying concrete steps toward its long-term realization. Such an endeavor may extend across several generations of educators.