Empathy-Driven Learning: Harnessing Emotional Intelligence in Educational Technology

This edited volume explores how empathy and emotional intelligence can be systematically embedded into contemporary educational technologies to create more human-centered, inclusive, and effective learning environments.The book brings together theoretical foundations, design principles, and technological frameworks that position emotions as a core element of digital, blended, and immersive learning systems.It examines how learner emotions, attention, engagement, and affective states can be modeled, sensed, and meaningfully integrated into learning technologies through interdisciplinary perspectives spanning education, psychology, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.The chapters present empirical studies, design methodologies, and system implementations that demonstrate empathy-driven approaches in real educational contexts.Topics include affective computing in education, emotionally intelligent instructional design, sensitive and adaptive learning