2025 the 17th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers (ICETC), which is co-sponsored by IEEE and University of Barcelona, Spain was held successfully in Barcelona, Spain from September 18 to 21, 2025. This year’s conference featured dynamic participation, with close to 150 attendees joining onsite and over 50 participants taking part online, highlighting the hybrid format of the event.

ICETC 2025 brought together a diverse global audience of researchers, educators, and professionals across education technology and computer science. The conference served as a vital platform for sharing ideas, research findings, and innovative practices in the rapidly advancing field of education technology.

The event supported both in-person and remote participation, offering enhanced accessibility and flexibility for attendees from around the world. Through interactive sessions and live discussions, the hybrid format facilitated meaningful engagement for all participants, whether joining onsite or online.

ICETC 2025 Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Rhona Sharpe, University of Oxford, UK
Prof. Irina Lyublinskaya, Columbia University, USA
Dr. Xuefan Li, CEO of National e-School and City High School, Canada

ICETC 2025 Invited Speakers:
Prof. Kenzi Watanabe, Hiroshima University, Japan
Prof. Matthias Wölfel, University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe, Germany
Prof. Daniel Otto, European University for Innovation and Perspective, Germany
Prof. Michele Baldassarre, Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Prof. Sebastian Speiser, Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Jesús Enrique Beltrán Virgüez, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Colombia
Prof. Antonio Cedillo-Hernandez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Prof. Clara Karjo, Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia
Assoc. Prof. Habil. Ana-Maria Dragulinescu, Politehnica Bucharest, Romania
Assoc. Prof. Mohd. Elmagzoub Eltahir, Ajman University, UAE
Assoc. Prof. Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Hujailan, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Assoc. Prof. Farrah Dina Yusof, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Serpil Tekir, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Dr. Nashwa Ismail, Imperial College London, UK

Best Paper Awards
SS0085: Synthesizing Trends in Educational Technology: Bibliometric Mapping and Tertiary Literature Review
António Correia, Pieta-Anniina Sikström, Mirka Saarela and Tommi Kärkkäinen
University of Jyväskylä, Finland

SS0113: Construction and Application of Multimodal Knowledge Graph for Intelligent Adaptive Learning
Cuiling Jiang, Yongjing Wan, Yu Zhu, Weina Yuan and Yilin Pang
East China University of Science and Technology, China

SS0175: RATAS: A GenAI Approach for Explainable and Scalable Automated Answer Grading
Masoud Safilian, Amin Beheshti and Stephen Elbourn
Macquarie University, Australia

Best Student Paper Awards
SS0142: Reproducing the Classroom? Spatial Positioning in Frontal Teaching in Social Virtual Reality
Fiona Schmidbauer and Matthias Wölfel
Karlsruhe University of Education, Germany

SS0148: Active Multimedia Engagement in Teacher Preparation: Impact on Digital Literacy and
Future Technology Integration
Kassiyet Toreyeva, Alibek Orynbassar and Nurdaulet Shynarbek
SDU University, Kazakhstan

SS0189: Tensions and Risks in the Platformization of Public Schools in the State of Paraná, Brazil
Antonio Lovato Sagrado and Cristina Galván Fernández
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

-Onsite Best Presentations-
Session 1: SS0282-Presenter: Silvia Alcaraz-Dominguez, University of Barcelona, Spain
Session 2: SS0051-Presenter: Shanti Divaharan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Session 3: SS0018-Presenter: Michael Ratcliff, Victoria University, Australia
Session 4: SS0269-Presenter: Romy Eva Marijn Gorter, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Session 5: SS0184-Presenter: Paulina Tsvetkova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Session 6: SS0173-Presenter: Westin Musser, Colorado State University, USA
Session 7: SS0155-A-Presenters: Harryl Arado and Sheila Arado, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, USA
Session 8: SS0212-A-Presenter: Nada Alsaleh, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Session 9: SS0083-Presenter: Sergio Gago-Masague, University of California, Irvine, USA
Session 10: SS0238-Presenter: Alena Lochmannová, XR Institute, Czechia
Session 11: SS0055-Presenter: Xinqi Yuan, Waseda University, Japan
Session 12：SS0073-A-Presenter: Mustafa Doğuş, Anadolu University, Turkey
Session 13: SS0139-Presenter: Anna-Marie Lauber, University of Konstanz, Germany
Session 14: SS0064-Presenter: Marisela Rodriguez-Salvador, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Poster Session: SS0165-Presenter: Shahnaz Mansouri, Monash University, Australia
SS0286-Presenter: Riccardo Giovannimaria Virdis, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

-Online Best Presentations-
Session 1: SS0302-Presenter: Andrei-Bogdan Stănescu, National University of Science and Technology "POLITEHNICA", Romania
Session 2: SS0175-Presenter: Masoud Safilian, Macquarie University, Australia
Session 3: SS0057-Presenter: Rajeev Chatterjee, National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, India
Session 4: SS0235-Presenter: Baraa Albishri, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and The University of Newcastle, Australia
Session 5: SS0280-Presenter: Ajay Sanjeevan, University of Virginia, USA
Session 6: SS0257-Presenter: Vickey Ghimire, Northern Kentucky University, USA
Session 7: SS0307-Presenter: Tala Flaifel, Birzeit University, Palestine
Session 8: SS0293-Presenter: Gabriela T. Richard, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA