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Dr Michael Agyemang Adarkwah is a Research Associate at the Institute for Education and Culture, at the Chair of Adult Education, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. His habilitation is on the application and implication of learning technologies in adult education in this artificial intelligence (AI) era with a focus on challenges, policy, and best practices. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Smart Learning Institute, Beijing Normal University (BNU), China. He obtained his Ph.D. in Education Leadership and Management from Southwest University, China. He has a master’s degree in Educational Administration and Leadership and a bachelor of science degree in Nursing from Valley View University, Ghana. He worked as a Registered Nurse (RGN) in Ghana. He has given keynote speeches on Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education at the University of Portsmouth-Kaplan Symposium, the University of South Africa (UNISA), the University of Ghana, Philippine Normal University (The National Center for Teacher Education) and Mariano Marcos State University (Comparative Education and Students Critical Leadership Society). His research interests are teaching and learning, motivation, assessment, digitalization, computers and education, adult education, special education, online learning, and healthcare education. He has Edited three Springer books on Design in Education, Educational Robotics, and AI in Education (AIED). He is an International Peer Reviewer and serves on the editorial board of multiple journals. He served as a Guest Editor for the International Journal of Smart Technology and Learning. He is an Editor of the book series Assessment of Educational Technology(AET) at Routledge. He is an Associate Editor for SN Social Sciences, the Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching (JALT), and the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP).