This book discusses the integration of artificial intelligence into higher education, viewed through diverse academic, pedagogical, and technological lenses. The chapters explore how AI is being embedded in university-level teaching and learning, not as an external add-on, but as an active participant in transforming instructional design, student support, assessment, and curriculum planning.

A key focus throughout the book is the relationship between human educators and intelligent systems. Contributions examine how generative AI tools are being used to support self-regulated learning, refine learning outcomes, automate design processes, and stimulate creativity in domains ranging from STEM to arts and design. The authors highlight the need for educators to engage not only with the functional affordances of AI, but also with the ethical, epistemological, and professional challenges it introduces. The book offers insights into institutional responses to AI, especially within developing countries, where higher education systems are negotiating access, quality, and sustainability. These perspectives provide a broader view of how AI adoption interacts with policy, infrastructure, and local educational cultures.

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Professor Linda Daniela is a senior researcher, Dean of the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art, Chair of the Council for PhD Defence in Education at the University of Latvia. She also serves as an expert in Education at the Council of Sciences of the Republic of Latvia. Her expertise spans Technology enhanced learning, Smart Pedagogy, Virtual Education, Smart Education, Digital Learning Materials, Educational technologies for learning, Educational robotics, Educational processes and solutions for reducing social exclusion from the educational processes, and Behavioral problems. Professor Daniela is an author and co-author of more than 80 publications about processes in all dimensions of education.

Dr. Calixto Gutiérrez-Braojos is an Associate Professor of Research Methods and Educational Assessment, and Evaluation at the University of Granada, Spain, where he also teaches Participatory Research and Impact Evaluation of Educational Research. He was selected as an FPU fellow by the Spanish Ministry and completed his PhD Cum Laude at the University of Granada. Throughout his career, he has completed several training and research stays at prestigious universities included in the Shanghai World Universities Academic Ranking. His main research topics encompass Knowledge-Building Communities; Educational Research Training; and Development and Evaluation of Technology for Education. In these fields, he has led numerous R&D&I innovation and research projects and was an author of over 90 publications.