Khaberni - A recent poll showed that only one in four university lecturers feels confident in their ability to identify academic work created by artificial intelligence, a significant decline from last year when the rate was 42%, according to the "Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education" report issued by the Coursera platform.
According to the "Daily Mail", the results indicate that students have become more reliant on artificial intelligence, as 48% of them reported using it in nearly half their studies, while 80% confirmed that digital tools have improved their academic grades.
Widespread use of artificial intelligence among professors
The survey, which included 500 university professors and lecturers through Censuswide, showed that 68% of lecturers regularly use artificial intelligence in their work.
However, lecturers' confidence in their skills using this technology is still limited, as only 27% believed that universities possess professors who are qualified to use artificial intelligence effectively.
The debate on academic cheating
Nearly half of the lecturers (50%) and less than half of the students (47%) reported that relying on artificial intelligence to complete university assignments should be considered cheating.
On the other hand, 55% of lecturers and 67% of students said that the increasing use of artificial intelligence has contributed to making exams easier.
When assessing the overall impact of artificial intelligence on higher education, lecturers were relatively more pessimistic than students, with 15% of them describing the impact as negative, compared to only 6% of students. However, most lecturers and students pointed out that this technology has a positive effect on education.
Marnie Baker Stein, the head of content at Coursera, said that artificial intelligence has become prevalent in all aspects of higher education, but many professors find it difficult to keep up with its practical and professional impacts.
She added: "There is an urgent need to provide additional training to ensure that lecturers feel confident in detecting and using artificial intelligence effectively."
