New Call for Papers for the next issue of ESS Journal (Vol. 37, No/2025) (July-December)

The Journal Higher Education and Society (ESS) of the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO IESALC) calls for the submission of articles for its thematic dossier: “AI in teaching and research: good practices, challenges and prospects”.

The launch of ChatGPT, in November 2022, represented a disruption in several areas of professional, social and academic life. Generative Artificial Intelligence, popularized by this algorithm, has emerged as a transformative tool in higher education and academic life. In Latin America, its implementation offers unique opportunities and challenges that deserve a detailed exploration, from its ethical use, personalized learning, collaborative research, to copyright and intellectual property, inequality gap and substitution risks.

In this context, SSE considers it of utmost relevance to know and discuss the strategies by which universities and educational systems in the region are facing this challenge, either by adapting their structures, institutional policies and academic practices, or by resisting or ignoring these technologies.

For the above reasons, the dossier will include the following lines of work:

- Impact of AI on teaching
Students are increasingly using AI in the classroom. It is critical to understand how universities are adapting to support meaningful learning.
- Impact of AI on research
Research and knowledge generation processes are being affected and disrupted by AI applications, from the ownership of an AI-generated “idea” to the “originality” of knowledge produced by an algorithm.
- Institutional policies and organizational changes
Universities are developing policies and structures to better integrate AI into their academic processes, either ignoring or resisting its use.
- Ethical dilemmas and legal challenges in the use of AI
Plagiarism, intellectual property, copyright, increasing digital inequality gap, as well as labor substitution by algorithms are challenges that need to be addressed in depth by educational systems and universities.

Empirical studies (scientific research), theoretical essays (in-depth), systematizations of experiences (based on scientific evidence) and states of the art (extensively documented) on the topic of the dossier are accepted.

The identity of those who will be responsible for the organization of the dossier as guest editors, as well as the closing date for the submission of articles for the new thematic dossier, will be announced soon.

As in previous issues, the journal keeps the general section open to receive articles that present studies and research on the diversity of thematic aspects of higher education in the region and its university institutions.

All articles will be received through the platform of the Journal Educación Superior y Sociedad (ESS) https://ess.iesalc.unesco.org/index.php/ess3/about/submissions where the rules and formats for submission are available. Likewise, each article will be submitted to external double anonymous peer review.

For more information write to ess-iesalc@unesco.org