How are students engaging with GenAI? An overview of emerging insights

SESSION OVERVIEW

Drawing on several empirical projects across multiple institutions, this session explores the ways students are thinking about and engaging with GenAI technologies in their higher education studies. Early findings emerging from these projects suggest that GenAI is becoming intertwined with student experience in diverse ways, including through adaptations to study processes, in students’ development of value positions about legitimate uses of GenAI and ownership of knowledge, and in study-adjacent uses of the technology (for example, in social contexts). This session will connect these emerging findings to practical implications for the support of student experience in a higher education landscape where GenAI is commonplace.

PRESENTER

Jack Walton is a Research Fellow within the Center for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), at Deakin University. His main research interests centre around the assessment of complex and creative work, and the relationship between assessment and generative AI.