Innovation via Collaborative Learning in Engineering Education

This book presents the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2025) and 54th Conference of International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP), which took place in Budapest, Hungary, between October 1 and 3, 2025, which was the perfect place where current trends in Higher Education were presented and discussed.We are currently witnessing a significant transformation in the development of education on all levels and especially in post-secondary and higher education. To face these challenges, higher education must find innovative and effective ways to respond in a proper way. Changes have been made in the way we teach and learn, including the massive use of new means of communication, such as videoconferencing and other technological tools. Moreover, the current explosion of artificial intelligence tools is challenging teaching practices maintained for centuries. Scientifically based statements as well as excellent best practice examples are necessary for effective teaching and learning engineering.IGIP conferences have been held since 1972 on research results and best practices in teaching and learning from the point of view of Engineering Pedagogy Science. ICL conferences have been held since 1998 being devoted to new approaches in learning with a focus on collaborative learning in Higher Education. Nowadays the ICL conferences are a forum of the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in learning and Engineering Pedagogy. In this way, the authors try to bridge the gap between “pure” scientific research and the everyday work of educators.This book contains papers from the following special sessions:•    Special session: accessibility, learning, and technologies.•    Special session: AI in HE from a pedagogical perspective.•    Special session: entrepreneurship in engineering education 2025.•    IPW special session: interactive and collaborative learning with focus on artificial intelligence and innovative technologies in engineering education.•    Special session: reimagining engineering and applied curriculum for transformation in Africa.•    Special session: to the roots of engineering pedagogy. •    Special session: virtual laboratories and makerspaces.Interested readership includes policymakers, academics, educators, researchers in pedagogy and learning theory, schoolteachers, learning industry, further and continuing education lecturers, etc.