What is it about?

This book is about how rules and shared guidelines can help artificial intelligence improve education in a fair, trustworthy, and meaningful way. As AI tools are increasingly used in schools, universities, and training programs—such as for teaching, grading, learning support, or administration—there is a growing need to make sure these tools actually serve learning, rather than create confusion, inequality, or mistrust. The book explains why standards (agreed-upon rules, principles, and good practices) matter when using AI in education. It shows how clear standards can help educators and students trust AI systems, how they make AI use more transparent and fair and upport different learners and learning contexts, how they ensure AI aligns with educational values and goals, not just technical performance. Rather than focusing on technology alone, the book looks at the broader learning ecosystem—teachers, learners, institutions, policymakers, and society—and explains how standards help these groups work together when introducing AI. The book also discusses ethical and legal questions, inclusion, and responsible innovation, showing how thoughtful guidelines can maximize the benefits of AI while reducing risks. Overall, this book explains how standards can guide AI so that it strengthens education, supports human learning, and benefits learners worldwide—not just by making education more efficient, but by making it more trustworthy, inclusive, and meaningful.

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Why is it important?

It is important because education shapes people, societies, and futures—and AI is now influencing how education works. Without clear guidance, that influence can easily drift in harmful or unequal directions. This book matters for five key reasons: 1) AI is already affecting learning, often invisibly. AI is being used to recommend content, assess students, track progress, and manage institutions. Many decisions are made by systems people do not fully see or understand. Standards help make these systems visible, understandable, and accountable. 2) Without standards, AI can amplify inequality. If AI tools are poorly designed or unregulated, they may disadvantage certain learners, cultures, or languages. Shared rules help ensure AI supports diverse learners, rather than reinforcing existing gaps. 3) Trust is essential in education. Teachers and students need to trust that AI tools are fair, reliable, and aligned with educational values. Standards create a common foundation of trust between educators, learners, technology developers, and policymakers. 4) Education is more than efficiency. AI can optimize processes, but learning also involves judgment, relationships, emotions, and meaning. Standards help keep AI aligned with learning goals, not just speed or cost reduction. and 5) Decisions made now will shape the future of learning Once AI systems are widely adopted, they are hard to change. Thoughtful standards allow societies to guide innovation responsibly, instead of reacting to problems after they occur. In short, this book is important because it explains how to use AI in education wisely, not blindly—so that technology supports human learning, fairness, and long-term social good.

Perspectives

From my perspective, this book is timely, necessary, and quietly ambitious. What makes it important is that it does not treat AI in education as a purely technical problem, nor as a simple story of innovation and efficiency. Instead, it focuses on standards as the hidden architecture that shapes how AI actually enters classrooms, institutions, and learning cultures. That is a perspective that is still rare, but increasingly crucial. I see this book as doing three valuable things: First, it reframes standards as active forces, not bureaucracy. Rather than presenting standards as constraints that slow innovation, the book shows how they enable responsible innovation—by setting shared expectations about fairness, transparency, accountability, and educational purpose. This helps shift the conversation from “Can we build it?” to “Should we build it this way?” Second, it connects AI to the full learning ecosystem. Many books focus narrowly on tools or algorithms. This one recognizes that AI reshapes relationships: between teachers and students, institutions and policymakers, learners and data. By taking an ecosystem view, the book avoids technological determinism and emphasizes coordination, trust, and shared responsibility. Third, it treats governance and ethics as practical, not abstract. Ethics and policy are often discussed at a high level, disconnected from everyday educational practice. This book grounds them in standards—showing how values become operational, how principles become design choices, and how governance enters daily educational decisions. In conlusion, I see this book as a bridge: between innovation and responsibility, between technology and education, and between global policy discussions and local learning realities. It does not argue that AI will automatically improve education. Instead, it makes a stronger and more honest claim: AI can improve learning only if we deliberately shape it through shared standards and values.

Dr. HDR. Frederic ANDRES, IEEE Senior Member, IEEE CertifAIEd Authorized Lead Assessor (Affective Computing), Unconscious AI Evangelist
National Institute of Informatics

Making AI Work for Learning: The Role of Standards offers a timely, insightful, and deeply thoughtful exploration of how shared standards can shape the future of AI in education. In an era where AI tools are rapidly being introduced into classrooms, institutions, and learning systems worldwide, this book foregrounds the critical role of clear, ethical, and equitable guidelines that ensure AI truly serves learners and educators—not just technology goals. By framing standards as enabling forces rather than bureaucratic constraints, the work thoughtfully connects policy, practice, ethics, and human-centered learning in a way that is both accessible and essential. This book is a significant contribution to the conversation on responsible AI in education and will be invaluable for educators, policymakers, researchers, and anyone committed to meaningful, trustworthy, and inclusive learning.

Teeradaj Racharak
Tohoku University

As educational institutions are implementing AI into their ecosystems, learning effectiveness and efficiencies can be optimized. This book offers timely frameworks and insights into ensuring, the AI systems that are being implemented, serve all within the learning ecosystem – learners, educators and administrators - fairly, transparently and with accountability. The holistic views presented provide the much-needed integrated socio-technical lens.

Gerlinde Weger

Education is a multi-faceted and multi-modal process that tries to emphasize conceptual understanding in the students. Different students have vastly different modes of understanding. In such situations, a teacher and the university need to try out various innovative methods in teaching, with correlation of concepts across domains, to make students ingrain the concepts for effective real-world use. A systematic process is essential to “try out” such innovative methods. Using Artificial Intelligence in education has enabled new opportunities for personalization of education for each student with minimal effort on the teachers. Standards-based AI innovation for the learning ecosystem brings forth mechanisms and ways of achieving this effectively. This collection presents various ways by which educators can bring methods into their knowledge imparting process and help achieve greater student conceptual understanding success.

Chandrasekhar Anantaram

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DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-2235-3.
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