Call for Guest Contributions on Artificial Intelligence, Education, and Society — Special Call for Open Education Week 2026

Guest Contributions: Artificial Intelligence, Education, and Society

Society & AI is an emerging open platform for critical, scholarly writing at the intersection of artificial intelligence, education, and society. We are currently building our contributor community — and we want to hear from you.

In recognition of Open Education Week 2026 (March 2–6), organized by Open Education Global, Society & AI is issuing a special open call for guest contributors. Open Education Week is described by its organizers as “the global town square to gather, meet, celebrate, and exchange open education resources and practices” — and this call is our contribution to that exchange. No institutional affiliation is required to participate. There are no article processing charges. All guest posts are published openly and freely accessible to anyone, anywhere.

We welcome submissions from educators, researchers, graduate students, practitioners, librarians, and independent thinkers. If you are paying close attention to what artificial intelligence is doing to education and society — and you have something honest and considered to say about it — this is an open invitation.

We are not soliciting AI success stories or product endorsements. We are soliciting the harder questions.

What We Publish

Guest Post Formats

Format	Description	Suggested Length
Opinion Piece	A clear, argued position on an issue in AI, education, or society	600–1,200 words
Perspective	A reflective, experience-grounded view from your own practice or research	800–1,500 words
Critical Commentary	Analysis of a current development, policy, tool, or trend	800–1,500 words
Reflection	A personal or intellectual reckoning with AI’s effects on learning or teaching	500–1,000 words

The formats above are starting points, not boundaries. We are open to other forms of written work and open-access educational media — including annotated resources, teaching notes, and short illustrated essays. If you have something that does not fit neatly into these categories but belongs in the conversation, reach out and tell us about it. We will consider it. All accepted contributions are published openly on Society & AI and shared through our channels.

Topics of Particular Interest

We are especially interested in contributions that engage with the following:

• What artificial intelligence is doing to how students learn — and how teachers teach
• Equity, access, and who benefits (and who does not) from AI in education
• Multilingual learners and the structural limits of AI-generated language
• The cognitive and epistemic effects of AI tools in formal and informal learning environments
• AI governance, institutional accountability, and open education policy
• What open education means — and what it costs — in an age of proprietary AI systems
• Honest accounts of failure, unintended consequences, and unresolved tensions

What We Do Not Accept

• Promotional content for AI products, platforms, or services
• Content generated entirely by AI without substantial human authorship and critical judgment
• Writing that lacks a discernible argument, position, or grounding in lived or scholarly experience

How to Submit

Send your guest contribution to submissions@societyandai.org with the subject line:

Guest Post — [Your Title]

Please include the following in your email:

1. Your draft (as a Google Doc link, DOCX, or PDF)
2. A one-sentence bio — your name, role, and affiliation if applicable
3. One or two sentences describing what your piece is about and why it matters now

We will respond within five business days.

If your piece is accepted, we will work with you on any light editorial feedback before publication.

A Note on Where We Are

Society & AI is a growing publication, and we are transparent about that. Our formal peer-reviewed journal imprint — AI, Education and Culture: International Perspectives — is currently under active development and is not yet accepting manuscript submissions. Guest contributions submitted through this call will be published openly on societyandai.org as standalone guest posts — not as part of the formal journal. They are editorially reviewed, not peer-reviewed in the academic sense, and published under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license, freely accessible to anyone without a paywall or login.

We believe that the most important ideas about AI and education should not have to wait for a formal review cycle to enter the conversation. This open call is how we keep that conversation open, honest, and accessible — especially during a week dedicated to exactly those values.

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Questions? Write to us at submissions@societyandai.org

Society & AI was established by Sai Gattupalli, PhD, a postdoctoral alumnus of the Advanced Learning Technologies Lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst — where research on learning technology, educational innovation, and learner flourishing is central to the lab’s mission. Dr. Gattupalli taught at UMass Amherst for two years, where Society & AI was originally founded. The publication is currently sustained from Hyderabad, India, carrying forward the intellectual rigor of that research tradition to questions that matter deeply across the Global South and beyond.