i-com 1/2026 released – Special Issue (R)evolution of educational technologies

Beginning of May 2026 the newest issue of i-com was published.

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/icom/25/1/html

The issue mainly includes submissions from a Special Issue (R)evolution of educational technologies compiled by the guest editors Jörg M. Haake, Clara Schumacher and Johannes Konert.

In addition to the submissions on educational technologies we have some more free submissions and submissions that did not make it for the deadline of the case studies issue (3/2025).

Michael Koch (Editor-in-Chief of i-com)

i-com Volume 25 (2026) Issue 1

May 2026

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/icom/25/1/html

Special Issue on (R)evolution of educational technologies (Jörg M. Haake, Clara Schumacher und Johannes Konert)

Editorial for special issue “(r)evolution of educational technologies”
Jörg M. Haake, Clara Schumacher, Johannes Konert

How XR shapes the future of higher education
Raphael Zender, Miriam Mulders, Axel Peter Wiepke, Jonathan Dyrna, Tobias Möhring, Lilly Kaninski, Ulrike Lucke, Markus von der Heyde, Stefan Lindow, Lisa König, Anne Thillosen, Thomas Köhler

The role of immersive technologies in K-12 education
Raphael Zender, David Baberowski, Frank Wehrmann, Birte Heinemann, Matthias Ehlenz, Josef Buchner, Ingo Bosse, David Wiesche, Dorina Rohse, Nadine Bergner, Thiemo Leonhardt

Educational virtual field trips 2035
Volker Eisenlauer, Heinrich Söbke, Bernhard Ertl, Maximilian Fink, Florian Wehking

The global classroom: vision-driven XR across the time-space matrix
Florian Buchholz, Yücel Uzun, Urs Riedlinger, Tommy Nilsson, Leif Oppermann

Ethical human-AI collaboration in design education – past, present, and future
Sophie Schauer, Katharina Simbeck, Niels Pinkwart

The double edge of communicative AI: continuity and disruption in higher education
Andreas Breiter, Paola Lopez

Towards an educational infrastructure for lifelong learning: from institutional silos to networked ecosystems
Sönke Erdmann, Benja Rathjens, Arno Wilhelm-Weidner, Joerg M. Haake, Ulrike Lucke

Research challenges and future perspectives for e-assessment technologies in higher education
Michael Striewe, Sven Strickroth, Meike Ullrich

Other research papers and case studies

Invisible work and unpredictable challenges in clinical practice: results from a participatory design case study
Katharina Thiel, Dominik Schulz, Lorin Lingl, David Unbehaun, Volker Wulf

Realising Grounded Design in practice: reflections on using Design Case Studies for practice-centred computing
Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Nils Darwin Abele, Sven Hoffmann, Marcus Schweitzer, Peter Tolmie

​​​​​​​Exploring perspectives on AI adoption for smart energy: bridging lived practices and expert insights from Greek homes
Lu Jin, Sotirios Athanasoulias, Dominik Pins, Alexander Boden, Britta Essing, Nikolaos Ipiotis

Writing support tools for making text understandable: a socio-technical perspective on stakeholder-centered writing
Hendrik Heuer, Sven Goller, Daniel Buschek

Balancing automation and control: user perceptions of tool invocations in conversational agents
Darius Hennekeuser, Daryoush Daniel Vaziri, David Golchinfar, Dirk Schreiber, Gunnar Stevens