The Learning Ideas Conference’s Summer Course Returns to Greece in June 2026
New York, NY (September 8, 2025) - The Learning Ideas Conference (TLIC) will return to Ioannina, Greece on June 23rd to 25th, 2026 for its annual live, in-person summer course, organized in collaboration with the Laboratory of New Technologies and Distance Learning at the School of Education, University of Ioannina.
The 2026 summer course, titled “AI, Teaching, and Learning,” will explore how artificial intelligence is transforming teaching, learning, and the design of educational experiences. Returning to the Epirus Palace Hotel Congress & Spa, the three-day program will feature a combination of expert-led sessions, hands-on workshops, on-site tours, discussions, and collaborative activities. It is open to all participants from Ioannina and abroad, including university students, researchers, educators, and other learning practitioners.
For the first time, the summer course will also partner with TLIC’s flagship June event, The Learning Ideas Conference 2026, offering course registrants the opportunity to submit papers for publication in the conference proceedings book and present their work during the course’s poster session. Accepted papers will be published in The Learning Ideas Conference 2026’s official proceedings book/ebook by Springer and indexed in SCOPUS and other major indexing systems. Papers will also be eligible for expansion into a journal article for iJAC, the International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning.
Registration for the summer course is required for a paper to be considered. Interested individuals must register by March 9th, 2026, to be considered for paper submission. Full submission details, including timeline, paper formats, and suggested topics, are available on the course’s official website: aiteachinglearning.org/paper-publication-opportunity.
The 2026 faculty will include Dr. David Guralnick of Kaleidoscope Learning; Dr. Jenny Pange, former Dean of University of Ioannina’s School of Education; Dr. Gila Kurtz and Dr. Eran Gal of the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) in Israel; Dr. Antonella Poce from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy, and Dr. Patrick Blum, CEO of Blum Consulting and Founder of Vysor.ai in Germany.
For more information and updates, visit the summer course’s official website: aiteachinglearning.org.
About The Laboratory of New Technologies and Distance Learning, School of Education, University of Ioannina
Established in 2003 (Government Gazette 144/12-6-2003), the Laboratory of New Technologies and Distance Learning operates within the Department of Early Childhood Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Ioannina. It addresses key educational and research needs in information technology, ICT-based educational programs, and scientific research, including methodology, analysis, and results.