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New advances in artificial intelligence applications in higher education

Guest Editors:
Olaf Zawacki-Richter: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Kyungmee Lee: University of Lancaster, United Kingdom
Paul Prinsloo: University of South Africa, South Africa
Patricia Slagter Van Tryon: East Carolina University, United States of America
John Y. H. Bai: University of Oldenburg, Germany

Submission Status: Closed


International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education is calling for submissions to our Collection on New advances in artificial intelligence applications in higher education.

There has been growing interest in the educational potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications within the field of educational technology for the past decade. Despite the recent peak of excitement towards advanced features and techniques of AI-driven language models and OpenAI's ChatGPT, their actual impact on higher education (HE) institutions and participants have been largely unknown. Thus, the discussions in the field have continuously remained, mainly consisting of overstated hype and untested hypotheses, either optimistic or pessimistic, about the impact of AI applications.

About three years ago, the editors of the ETHE Special Issue "Can artificial intelligence transform higher education?" concluded that the reality is disappointing and little has been achieved (Bates, Cobo, Mariño & Wheeler, 2020). However, a lot has happened since then. A recent update of the systematic literature review, previously conducted by Zawacki-Richter et al. (2019), has indicated that almost three times as many studies on AI in education (AIEd) have been published in the last three years as in the previous decade.

In view of the rapid development in the field of AIEd, this Special Issue will pick up the thread about the reality of AIED in the realm of HE in the post-Covid19-pandemic.

  1. The influence of Artificial Intelligence on higher education is increasing. As important drivers for student retention and learning success, generative AI-tools like translators, paraphrasers and most lately c...

    Authors: Jan Delcker, Joana Heil, Dirk Ifenthaler, Sabine Seufert and Lukas Spirgi
    Citation: International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:18
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. The present discussion examines the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in educational settings, focusing on the necessity for AI literacy, prompt engineering proficiency, and enhanced critic...

    Authors: Yoshija Walter
    Citation: International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:15
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. ChatGPT, an AI-based chatbot with automatic code generation abilities, has shown its promise in improving the quality of programming education by providing learners with opportunities to better understand the ...

    Authors: Dan Sun, Azzeddine Boudouaia, Chengcong Zhu and Yan Li
    Citation: International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:14
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. While the discussion on generative artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, is making waves in academia and the popular press, there is a need for more insight into the use of ChatGPT among students and the p...

    Authors: Muhammad Abbas, Farooq Ahmed Jam and Tariq Iqbal Khan
    Citation: International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Although the field of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIEd) has a substantial history as a research domain, never before has the rapid evolution of AI applications in education sparked such prominent pub...

    Authors: Melissa Bond, Hassan Khosravi, Maarten De Laat, Nina Bergdahl, Violeta Negrea, Emily Oxley, Phuong Pham, Sin Wang Chong and George Siemens
    Citation: International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2024 21:4
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  6. The question of how generative AI tools, such as large language models and chatbots, can be leveraged ethically and effectively in education is ongoing. Given the critical role that writing plays in learning a...

    Authors: Juan Escalante, Austin Pack and Alex Barrett
    Citation: International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2023 20:57
    Content type: Research article Published on:

About the collection

The call for papers is intended to invite contributions that address the recent development of AI in HE in light of new applications such as ChatGTP, aiming to provide more comprehensive and collective answers to the following questions:

• What is the actual impact of AI on different aspects of HE institutions (e.g. student support systems, administration, professional development, and infrastructure)?
• What is the actual impact of AI on different aspects of learning and teaching in HE? (e.g. assessment, data literacy, design of learning activities)?
• What is the actual impact of AI on different subjects in HE? (e.g. students, teachers, administrators, causal workers, other stakeholders)?
 
The Special Issue Editors are also interested in making sense of the impact of AI on educational accessibility and (in-)equity regarding the cost, quality, and access in different forms of open, distance, and digital education. Both theoretical and empirical works will be considered to be included as long as they demonstrate rigour, criticality, and novelty.