Student Research Guide WQ25/ Benefits of AI in Higher Education

• This article is about how AI can both help and hurt student creativity in the classroom. It shows that students felt using AI to generate ideas was like cheating, and took away their creative thought. This may be helpful to generate ideas, but it may hurt as students feel unworthy because they couldn’t come up with as many ideas.       

Credo Reference Database: Coper-Gencturk, Yasemin, “AI Can Teach Math Teachers How to Improve Student Skills.” The Conversation: An Independent Source of Analysis from Academic Researchers, 1st ed., The Conversation, 2024. Credo Reference, https://search.credoreference.com/articles/Qm9va0FydGljbGU6NDk0NTY5Mg==?aid=102912. 

• This article is about a study in which 53 middle school math teachers were chosen to observe and collect data. They were randomly assigned to attend online professional development with AI methods, or received no professional development. When the teachers received this training, their students' scores improved in comparison to the teachers that did not attend training.                                                                                             

INTERNET WEBSITE: Coursera Staff. “AI in Education: Approaches and Strategies for Educators.” Coursera, 30 Aug. 2024, www.coursera.org/articles/ai-in-education. 

•  This article is about ways to incorporate AI into education. From administrative tasks to creating ideas ethical use of AI is starting in the classroom. There are suggestions for how to teach and use AI in the classroom.            

ProQuest Database :D’Mello, Sidney K., et al. “From Learning Optimization to Learner Flourishing: Reimagining AI in Education at the Institute for Student‐AI Teaming (iSAT).” The AI Magazine, vol. 45, no. 1, 2024, pp. 61–68, https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12158. 

• This article addresses how to involve all students in AI learning experiences. It looks to answer how to involve all genders of socio-economic, ethnic, and racial cultures and engage them in deeper learning.                                  

ProQuest Database :Gillani, Nabeel, et al. “Unpacking the ＂Black Box＂ of AI in Education.” Educational Technology ＆ Society, vol. 26, no. 1, 2023, pp. 99–111, https://www.proquest.com/docview/2767094834?accountid=1131&pq-origsite=primo&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals

• This article is about what AI truly is and how it can advance or impede education. It also reviews   different methods and philosophies; recent advances and ways it impacts education.                                                             

Internet Website: Hei, Anthony and Claire Thouary “How AI Is Reshaping Higher Education” 17, Oct. 2023, https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2023/10/how-ai-is-reshaping-higher-education 

• This article is about the importance of teachers using AI and teaching students how to ethically use AI, how to ask questions that will give the most useful responses, and how to utilize AI in their professions. It is very important that educators learn to use AI to teach their students.                                                                                

ProQuest Database :Holmes, Wayne, and Ilkka Tuomi. “State of the Art and Practice in AI in Education.” European Journal of Education, vol. 57, no. 4, 2022, pp. 542–70, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12533. 

• This article offers a review of the current use of AI in Education. It then offers different ways to use AI in education and learning.                                                                                                                                               

INTERNET WEBSITE: Mowreader, Ashley. “How College Professors Are Using Generative AI to Teach.” Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs, 6 Feb. 2024, www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2024/02/06/how-college-professors-are-using-generative-ai-teach. 

• This article explains the utilization of AI by teachers. It also discusses why teachers are not applying AI in their classrooms and ideas on how to start implementing it.                                                                                               

ProQuest Database :Seo, Kyoungwon, et al.”The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Learner- Instructor Interaction in Online Learning.” International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, vol.18, no.1,26 Oct.2021, pp.1-23, https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-021-00292-9. 

• This article is about the importance of student and instructor interactions because these interactions directly impact student learning and satisfaction. They used 12 student and 11 instructor voices during a speed dating experiment to determine satisfaction with the student learner options, however, at the risk of impeding social boundaries.                                                                                                                                                                 

ProQuest Database :Yao, Ni, and Qiong Wang. “Factors Influencing Pre-Service Special Education Teachers’ Intention toward AI in Education: Digital Literacy, Teacher Self-Efficacy, Perceived Ease of Use, and Perceived Usefulness.” Heliyon, vol. 10, no. 14, 2024, pp. e34894-, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e34894. 

• This article explains that AI in education helps pre-service SPED teachers in China. The data was useful because the teachers were more likely to utilize AI if they perceived it to be helpful, and if it was easy to use.