Building on the successes of the conference series in eleven previous years, the 2025 International Conference on Open and Innovative Education (ICOIE 2025) will be held at the campus of Hong Kong Metropolitan University in Hong Kong. The conference will take place as a hybrid conference on 9–11 July 2025. All participants may choose to attend the conference and present their papers at the conference venue in Hong Kong or through our video conferencing system.

Accepted full papers were included in the conference proceedings (with an ISBN). Special issues of the following journals were devoted to selected papers of the Conference. The journals included International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (ESCI and Scopus listed), Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ESCI and Scopus listed), and “Innovation and Technology in Education” Section of SN Computer Science (Scopus listed). Extended versions of conference papers were invited for review and publication in the journals.