Students and AI in Academia: Exploring Students’ Perspectives on the Use of AI-Enabled Services, such as ChatGPT, in Academia

Students and AI in Academia: Exploring Students’ Perspectives on the Use of AI-Enabled Services, such as ChatGPT, in Academia

As AI services grow increasingly popular, AI may provide opportunities to both enhance learning and introduce risks to the learning process. 

One of the most popular AI-enabled tools is ChatGPT, which is a language model developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT has been used to support creative writing and essay writing, as well as answer questions. 

This study investigates student perspectives towards using AI-enabled services, such as ChatGPT, to support their academic work. By understanding student opinions on the potential benefits, challenges, and concerns surrounding the usage of AI-enabled tools in academics, this project will offer much-needed student-centred insights to inform future education, policy, and research.

This study just received ethics approval and will soon start its data collection.



Questions? Contact Our Team

Principal Investigator: Dr. Lillian Hung


Project Co-Investigators: Dr Abdul-Fatawu Abdulai and Dr Nassim Adhami


Supportive Team Members: Michelle Lam and Olivia Du. Please contact Michelle by email at mla229@student.ubc.ca if you have questions/interest.