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“We Need To Talk About ChatGPT”: The Future of AI and Higher Education

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Neumann, Michael, Rauschenberger, Maria, Schön, Eva-Maria·2023·Hochschule Hannover

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On November 30th, 2022, OpenAI released the large language model ChatGPT, an extension of GPT-3. The AI chatbot provides real-time communication in response to users’ requests. The quality of ChatGPT’s natural speaking answers marks a major shift in how we will use AI-generated information in our day-to-day lives. For a software engineering student, the use cases for ChatGPT are manifold: assessment preparation, translation, and creation of specified source code, to name a few. It can even handle more complex aspects of scientific writing, such as summarizing literature and paraphrasing text. Hence, this position paper addresses the need for discussion of potential approaches for integrating ChatGPT into higher education. Therefore, we focus on articles that address the effects of ChatGPT on higher education in the areas of software engineering and scientific writing. As ChatGPT was only recently released, there have been no peer-reviewed articles on the subject. Thus, we performed a structured grey literature review using Google Scholar to identify preprints of primary studies. In total, five out of 55 preprints are used for our analysis. Furthermore, we held informal discussions and talks with other lecturers and researchers and took into account the authors’ test results from using ChatGPT. We present five challenges and three opportunities for the higher education context that emerge from the release of ChatGPT. The main contribution of this paper is a proposal for how to integrate ChatGPT into higher education in four main areas.

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  • Students might easily use ChatGPT dishonestly, either to cheat in homework or exams, or to write reports/essays without citation in a manner that could be construed as plagiarism.

    “Concerns have arisen regarding how students might easily use ChatGPT dishonestly, either to cheat in the completion of homework or exams, or to write reports/essays without citation in a manner that could be construed as plagiarism [22].”
  • Plagiarism detection tools such as Turnitin, ZeroGPT, GPTZero, and Copyleaks have evolved, but studies found they are still not fully ready to accurately and reliably identify AI-generated text.

    “Turnitin and other similar plagiarism detection tools, such as ZeroGPT, GPTZero, and Copyleaks, have since evolved, incorporating enhanced techniques to detect AI-generated text, despite the possibility of false positives, as noted in different studies that have found these tools still not yet fully ready to accurately and reliably identify AI-generated text [10, 51]”

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  1. J. Rudolph, S. Tan, and S. Tan, "Bullshit spewer or the end of traditional assessments in higher education?" Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, 2023.
  2. M. Elsen-Rooney, "Nyc education department blocks chatgpt on school devices, networks," 2023. [Online]. Available: https://cacm.acm.org/news/ 268457-nyc-education-dept-blocks-chatgpt-on-school-devices-networks/ fulltext

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Authors
Neumann, M., Rauschenberger, M., & Schön, E.-M.
Affiliations
  • Hochschule Hannover (DE)
  • University of Applied Sciences Emden Leer (DE)
Venue
Hochschule Hannover
Publisher
Hochschule Hannover
Published
2023
Pages
29-32
OpenAlex
W4385323568
Cited by
212
References
9
Citations by year
2026: 33 · 2025: 62 · 2024: 82 · 2023: 35
FWCI
54.49
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Locations
  • SerWisS (Hochschule Hannover) (submittedVersion)
  • Hochschulschriftenserver der Hochschule Emden/Leer (submittedVersion)
  • SerWisS (Hochschule Hannover) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Wuerttemberg (BSZ)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Artificial Intelligence Applications
Keywords
ChatGPT, large language models, artificial intelligence in higher education, software engineering education, scientific writing, AI-generated text, assessment preparation, code generation, literature summarization

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