Adapting to the AI Era: Higher Education's Opportunities and Challenges with ChatGPT

Ying Lin

doi:10.54254/2753-7048/40/20240734

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Adapting to the AI Era: Higher Education's Opportunities and Challenges with ChatGPT

Ying Lin *^,1,

¹ The University of Sydney

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https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/40/20240734

Abstract

As AI technology continues to evolve, higher education is facing profound changes. Driven by this change, advanced chatbots such as ChatGPT, as representatives of AI, have gradually become a focus of attention in higher education, triggering academic discussions on how to better integrate these technologies to facilitate learning and teaching. This paper aims to systematically grasp the opportunities and challenges of ChatGTP in higher education to explore in depth its positive role in academic support and teaching support for students and teachers. However, the challenges posed by the ChatGPT technology, which comes with opportunities, include academic integrity, information accuracy and reliability. At the same time, a number of potential solutions are presented, such as raising awareness of the advantages, limitations and potential risks of AI models, developing students' digital skills, and investing in research and development to improve transparency and control. Along with adapting to the age of AI, higher education needs to constantly explore new assessment models and teaching methods to better respond to developments in technologies such as ChatGPT.

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ChatGPT, higher education, generative artificial intelligence

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Lin,Y. (2024). Adapting to the AI Era: Higher Education's Opportunities and Challenges with ChatGPT. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,40,137-143.

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