New advances in artificial intelligence applications in higher education

International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education is calling for submissions to our Collection on New advances in artificial intelligence applications in higher education. There has been growing interest in the educational potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications within the field of educational technology for the past decade. Despite the recent peak of excitement towards advanced features and techniques of AI-driven language models and OpenAI's ChatGPT, their actual impact on higher education (HE) institutions and participants have been largely unknown. Thus, the discussions in the field have continuously remained, mainly consisting of overstated hype and untested hypotheses, either optimistic or pessimistic, about the impact of AI applications. About three years ago, the editors of the ETHE Special Issue "Can artificial intelligence transform higher education?" However, a lot has happened since then.