Al-generated text in Higher Education Institutions (HEls ): Are all responses equal?

Project description

This project investigated Al-generated text in Higher Education Institutions (HEls). Scant research has tested consistency and quality assurance. Initial results confirm that HEI stakeholders need to adapt a radically new approach, that is, back to the basics, to mitigate the rise of 'fast education'.

Through Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen Al), students may skip pertinent steps in the scaffolding of education. Students must be taught effective prompt engineering and critical assessment of the output. If HEls do not slow down and teach the basics, we risk producing young graduates who enter the workforce with unrealistic expectations that all written output produced by Gen AI is 'good enough’.

Thus, this project promotes a new approach toward using Gen AI in HEIs and, more specifically, new writing and critical thinking courses across all HEls.

Project status

The project started in May 2024 and ended in October 2024. For further information, please contact the project manager indicated in the “contact” section (on the right of this page)

Funding

This project was supported, in 2024, by the Guichet permanent sur l'expérimentation numérique of the Centre de compétences numériques (CCN) of the HES-SO as part of the priority project “Teaching in the digital age”.