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Students’ Perceptions: Exploring the Interplay of Ethical and Pedagogical Impacts for Adopting AI in Higher Education

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Han, Bingyi, Nawaz, Sadia, Buchanan, George, McKay, Dana·2025·International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education

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Artificial intelligence is increasingly implemented in higher education, offering customized interventions and timely feedback to enhance learning experiences. While these tools have the potential to improve educational outcomes, they also introduce ethical risks and sociotechnical implications such as reduced learner autonomy. Current ethical discussions often focus on computational issues and overlook the nuanced impacts from students’ perspectives, which may increase students’ vulnerability. Taking a student-centered approach, we apply the Story Completion Method to investigate students’ concerns about adopting analytics-based AI tools in education. Seventy-one participants responded to the story prompts, which we analyzed qualitatively to uncover perceptions about how these tools may reshape pedagogical aspects such as learner autonomy, learning environments and approaches, interactions and relationships, and pedagogical roles. Our findings reveal that these potential impacts not only occur in isolation but also interact with one another. This study makes two primary contributions: first, it marks a novel application of the speculative design method to explore students’ perceptions of AIEd tools. Second, it provides a qualitative analysis of key themes derived from student responses, offering design implications for AIEd systems that are sensitive to student concerns and ethical considerations. These insights offer a foundation for future research and contribute to a more student-centered approach to the ethical development of AIEd.

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Authors
Han, B., Nawaz, S., Buchanan, G., & McKay, D.
Affiliations
  • The University of Melbourne (AU)
  • RMIT University (AU)
Corresponding author
Han, Bingyi
Venue
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2025-12
Volume
35
Issue
4
Pages
1887-1912
ISSN
1560-4292 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4406230992
Cited by
32
References
66
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 11
FWCI
33.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
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International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
Keywords
artificial intelligence in education, student perceptions, AI ethics, learner autonomy, speculative design, student-centered design, pedagogical role, learning environment

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