AI in Higher Education
Thursday, 3 September 2026
What crossed the desk today, gathered from 58 sources.
Can AI-Assisted Inquiry Enhance Students' Decision-Making Skills in Socio-Scientific Issues? A Three-Group Experimental Study on Climate Change
Climate change is a socio-scientific issue: it rests on science but cannot be settled by science, because any serious response forces people to weigh costs, values, and competing interests under uncertainty. Helping students make such decisions well is a central aim of science education, and the arrival of generative…
Developing Effective GenAI Users: The Missing Motivational System and Why It Matters for Equity
Research on Generative AI (GenAI) in education has largely focused on how much students use it and its impact on learning. This framing overlooks the motivational processes driving students’ choices. We propose broadening research to include the study of what cultures, contexts, and learning experiences give students…
Leveraging Generative AI to Design Accessible Interactive Visualizations for Undergraduate Mathematics: A Six-Phase Workflow
Interactive visualizations support conceptual understanding in undergraduate mathematics, but building them has required programming expertise most instructors lack. Using a design-based research approach, we develop, deploy, and evaluate a six-phase workflow (Foundation, Customization, Mathematical Depth…
中文學術段落閱讀感受調查：讀者對「像機器所寫」判斷的共享性與依據（分析計畫登記） Perceived “AI-ness” of Chinese academic prose: sharedness and cue basis of reader judgments (pre-analysis plan)
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Report: 83% of Organizations Need an Infrastructure Upgrade to Support Production-Grade Agentic AI
According to the latest infrastructure research from Google Cloud, enterprises are encountering a sizable infrastructure gap as agentic AI systems move from experiments and pilots into production.
Cite or Decline: A Strict Course-Grounded Chatbot for STEM Lecture Videos
Recorded lecture videos, often enhanced with search and summarization features, are a standard study resource. However, students cannot easily ask course specific questions or verify answers against an instructor's lecture. We report a semester-long deployment of VideoPoints platform with a retrieval-augmented chatbot…
Dataset of GenAI-Assisted Information Problem Solving in Education
Information Problem Solving (IPS) is a critical competency for academic and professional success in education, work, and life. The advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), particularly tools like ChatGPT, has introduced new possibilities for supporting students in complex IPS tasks. However, empirical…
A Criminological Mixed-Methods Analysis of University Policies and Strategies Against AI Cheating: A Case Study of Novel Deviance and Cultural Lag
Computers in Human Behavior