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As artificial intelligence drives a momentum shift in our day-to-day lives, the evasion is circulating within UNO’s College of Business Administration and College of Information Science & Technology. A new study reveals how students are collaborating with AI, laying the groundwork for teaching and workplace readiness. Erin Bass, Ph.D., (CBA Management Professor and Center for Competencies, Skills, and Workforce Development Executive Director), Joel Elson (Ph.D., IS&T Assistant Professor and NCITE Director of Information Science & Technology Research0, and Erin G. Pleggenkule-Miles (Ph.D., CBA Management Professor) lead the study, creating a customized chatbot to analyze students’ interactions with generative AI. Students were tasked to use the chatbot while creating a business plan. The professors could cycle through the inputs plugged into the AI. Bass said, “We designed the study to better understand how students were using AI, so that we could start creating classroom assignments, learning experiences.” Bass said, “We’re starting to see more shift into active ways to use AI.” She added, “I’ll give the example of a student using AI to act like a venture capitalist and evaluate their idea.” The professors said the scale is vast, with some students using it more like a search engine very passively, while others are more complex with their inputs. Bass said, “As AI is continuing to evolve, student perceptions of AI have continued to evolve. So, maybe initially it was a tool that everyone wanted to use for everything.” UNO business master’s student Karlie Chonis said she uses AI to “redefine answers” and “challenge” its production throughout her schoolwork. The research team hopes the study helps universities design learning experiences going forward in an AI-powered world. Bass said their findings prove students are learning to use more critical thinking while utilizing AI. Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |
As artificial intelligence drives a momentum shift in our day-to-day lives, the evasion is circulating within UNO’s College of Business Administration and College of Information Science & Technology. A new study reveals how students are collaborating with AI, laying the groundwork for teaching and workplace readiness.
Erin Bass, Ph.D., (CBA Management Professor and Center for Competencies, Skills, and Workforce Development Executive Director), Joel Elson (Ph.D., IS&T Assistant Professor and NCITE Director of Information Science & Technology Research0, and Erin G. Pleggenkule-Miles (Ph.D., CBA Management Professor) lead the study, creating a customized chatbot to analyze students’ interactions with generative AI.
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Students were tasked to use the chatbot while creating a business plan. The professors could cycle through the inputs plugged into the AI. Bass said, “We designed the study to better understand how students were using AI, so that we could start creating classroom assignments, learning experiences.”
Bass said, “We’re starting to see more shift into active ways to use AI.” She added, “I’ll give the example of a student using AI to act like a venture capitalist and evaluate their idea.”
The professors said the scale is vast, with some students using it more like a search engine very passively, while others are more complex with their inputs.
Bass said, “As AI is continuing to evolve, student perceptions of AI have continued to evolve. So, maybe initially it was a tool that everyone wanted to use for everything.”
UNO business master’s student Karlie Chonis said she uses AI to “redefine answers” and “challenge” its production throughout her schoolwork.
The research team hopes the study helps universities design learning experiences going forward in an AI-powered world. Bass said their findings prove students are learning to use more critical thinking while utilizing AI.
Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.
NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |
