Announcements | FIRE: Futuristic Implementations of Research in Education

Announcements

Dear Authors and Referees;

According to the new regulations to the criteria regarding ethical rules, Futuristic Implementations of Research in Education (FIRE) is now (from October, 2023) requiring authors to obtain relevant documents regarding the ethical committee approval. For your information, these regulations are summarized below:

All authors should obtain the:
1. "Ethics Committee Approval" is required for all kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques.
2. The articles should state whether an ethical committee permit and/or legal/special permission is required. If these approvals are required, it should be clearly presented from which institution, on what date and with which decision or number.
3. "Ethics Committee Approval" is required for researches using humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes.
4. If the study involves the use of human or animal subjects, the international declaration of the study, guidance, etc. it must be declared that it is performed properly.
5. "Ethics Committee Approval" is required for clinical studies on humans and animals.
6. By the law on the protection of personal data, "Ethics Committee Approval" is needed for retrospective studies.

* Retrospective ethics committee approval is not required for articles that were produced from postgraduate/doctoral studies using research data before 2020 (must be specified in the article) and were accepted for publication in the previous year, but have not yet been published.

** In studies that require ethics committee approval, ethics committee approval will be shared with the journal editor (when desired). In addition, the name of the committee, the date and the issue number will be stated in the Acknowledgments section of the article and the ethics committee approval can be shared on the last page of the article (if desired).

*** Researchers who are not members of the university can also apply to the Ethics Committees in their region.

Special Issue: Call for Papers

2026-07-09

Generative artificial intelligence has moved into classrooms, training programs and workplaces within a short period. Educators now face open questions about what learners should know, how their learning should be assessed and which competencies hold value. Thus, the distance between what education provides and what the future workforce requires has become a matter of concern for institutions across sectors.

This special issue examines how education systems prepare learners for work in an economy driven by artificial intelligence and oriented towards sustainability. The focus rests on the connection between educational practice and workforce readiness. The issue draws attention to skills, curricula and assessment, and to the wider question of how institutions respond to rapid technological change.

Contributions may address, though are not limited to:
•Generative artificial intelligence and the redesign of curricula for future work
•Assessment and academic integrity in the age of generative artificial intelligence
•Employability skills and graduate readiness for an automated economy
•Higher education reform under Industry 4.0
•Vocational and professional training for emerging technologies
•Sustainability and circular economy literacy in education
•Artificial intelligence in management and business education
•Equity and access in AI-supported learning
•Ethical questions in the educational use of generative artificial intelligence
•Teacher and trainer development for AI-rich classrooms

Manuscripts should follow the author guidelines available on the journal website. Authors should state in their cover letter that the submission is intended for this special issue.

For abstract submission, please visit the FIRE’s website: www.firejournal.org