International Workshop on
Fairness in Algorithmic Decision-Making for Education

to be held as part of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2025)

26 July 2025 - Palermo, Italy (with support for remote attendance)

Workshop Aims and Scope

This workshop will take the first steps towards developing a blueprint to integrate fairness into AIED research, practice, and adoption. Starting from existing frameworks, including procedural fairness and algorithmic audits, participants will expand upon previous research and work to bring the AIED community into alignment around fairness principles, resulting in the co-creation of a document for embedding fairness into AIED research, practice, and adoption.

Designed as an interactive full-day, hybrid event, the workshop will incorporate short lightning talk presentations (submission details below), small-group discussions, and a world café session. By the end of the workshop, participants will have contributed to the groundwork for an actionable framework to ensure that fairness is consistently and effectively considered in AIED.

Workshop Topics

The workshop welcomes contributions in the form of abstracts to foster discussion around the co-creation of the fairness blueprint. The abstract topic should be related to fairness in algorithmic decision-making in education, with a focus on (but not limited to) the following areas:

  • Fairness methods design and incorporation
    • Incorporating fairness principles across an AIED system
    • Ensuring fairness across the AIED system lifecycle
    • Integrating fairness with other AIED areas to provide complementary benefits
  • Fairness auditing and evaluation
    • Algorithmic auditing procedures in the context of AIED
    • Improving fairness metrics, definitions, and evaluation approaches in AIED
    • Strengthening mechanisms for long-term adherence to fairness in AIED
  • Fairness gaps and challenges identification
    • Identifying gaps and challenges in AIED regarding fairness
    • Exploring what we can do better concerning fairness as a research community
    • Challenges to improving fairness in practice
    • Methods for addressing these challenges in adopting fairness

Important Dates

  • Abstract submissions: June 30, 2025
  • Notifications: July 7, 2025
  • Workshop day: July 26, 2025 - Palermo, Italy (with support for remote attendance)

These deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. Upon acceptance, authors will have approximately two weeks to prepare 1-3 slides for their lightning talk.

Submission Details

We invite authors to submit a 250-word abstract, written in English. Abstracts should not exceed the indicated word limit. References do not count toward the word limit.

  • Abstracts should be submitted using the following form.
  • All submissions will undergo a single-blind review process conducted by the organizers.
  • Submissions will be evaluated based on relevance, originality, significance, and clarity.
  • The accepted abstracts will be made available on the workshop website.
  • At least one author per abstract must register for and attend the workshop to present it.
  • Abstracts will be delivered as lightning talks (approx. 5 minutes)
  • The authors of the accepted abstracts are responsible for preparing slides for their talk

We expect authors, the program committee, and the organizing committee to adhere to the ACM’s Conflict of Interest Policy and the ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

Keynote Speaker

TBA

Program

The workshop will take place in hybrid mode. The program will be published in June 2025.

TBA

Organizers

  • Clara Belitz, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA
  • Nigel Bosch, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA
  • Lan Jiang, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA
  • Ioana Jivet, FernUniversität, Germany
  • Badmavasan Kirouchenassamy, Sorbonne University, France
  • HaeJin Lee, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA
  • Barbara Leporini, University of Pisa & ISTI-CNR, Italy
  • Francesca Maridina Malloci, University of Cagliari, Italy
  • Mirko Marras, University of Cagliari, Italy
  • Daniela Rotelli, Sorbonne University, France
  • Frank Stinar, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA

Register

Please register to the workshop by following the instructions indicated in the AIED 2025's main conference website at this link. Workshop-only registration options are available.

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We also invite you to check out the following three related workshops:

Contacts

For general enquiries on the workshop, please send an email to fair4aied@gmail.com.