Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing education while making discovering more available but likewise stimulating debates on its impact.
While students hail AI tools like ChatGPT for enhancing their knowing experience, speakers are raising issues about the growing dependence on AI, which they argue fosters laziness and undermines academic stability, specifically with many trainees not able to protect their projects or given works.
Prof. Isaac Nwaogwugwu, a lecturer at the University of Lagos, in an interview with Nairametrics, expressed frustration over the growing reliance on AI-generated actions amongst trainees recounting a recent experience he had.
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"I gave a project to my MBA students, and out of over 100 students, about 40% submitted the exact very same responses. These students did not even know each other, but they all used the exact same AI tool to generate their actions," he said.
He kept in mind that this trend prevails amongst both undergraduate and postgraduate trainees but is specifically worrying in part-time and distance knowing programs.
"AI is a major challenge when it pertains to assignments. Many students no longer think critically-they just go on the internet, create answers, and send," he added.
Surprisingly, some lecturers are likewise implicated of over-relying on AI, setting a cycle where both educators and students turn to AI for benefit rather than intellectual rigor.
This argument raises important questions about the function of AI in academic stability and student advancement.
According to a UNESCO report, while ChatGPT reached 100 million regular monthly active users in January 2023, just one nation had actually launched regulations on generative AI since July 2023.
Since December 2024, ChatGPT had over 300 million individuals using the AI chatbot weekly and 1 billion messages sent out every day worldwide.
Decline of scholastic rigor
University lecturers are significantly worried about students submitting AI-generated projects without genuinely understanding the content.
Dr. Felix Echekoba, a speaker at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, expressed his issues to Nairametrics about trainees significantly depending on ChatGPT, just to deal with responding to fundamental questions when evaluated.
"Many trainees copy from ChatGPT and submit sleek tasks, but when asked fundamental questions, they go blank. It's frustrating because education is about finding out, not just passing courses," he said.
- Prof. Nwaogwugwu pointed out that the increasing variety of top-notch graduates can not be totally credited to AI however admitted that even high-performing students use these tools.
"A top-notch student is a first-rate trainee, AI or not, but that does not mean they don't cheat. The advantages of AI may be peripheral, but it is making students reliant and less analytical," he said.
- Another speaker, Dr. Ereke, from Ebonyi State University, raised a various concern that some speakers themselves are guilty of the very same practice.
"It's not simply students utilizing AI slackly. Some lecturers, out of their own laziness, create lesson notes, course describes, marking schemes, and even exam questions with AI without evaluating them. Students in turn utilize AI to create responses. It's a cycle of laziness and it is killing genuine learning," he lamented.
Students' viewpoints on usage
Students, on the other hand, state AI has improved their knowing experience by making academic materials more reasonable and accessible.
- Eniola Arowosafe, a 300-level Business Administration student at Unilag, shared how AI has actually significantly assisted her knowing by breaking down complex terms and providing summaries of prolonged texts.
"AI assisted me comprehend things more quickly, particularly when dealing with complex topics," she explained.
However, she recalled an instance when she used AI to submit her project, only for her speaker to instantly acknowledge that it was generated by ChatGPT and reject it. Eniola noted that it was a good-bad impact.
- Bryan Okwuba, who just recently graduated with a superior degree in Pharmacy Technology from the University of Lagos, firmly believes that his academic success wasn't due to any AI tool. He attributes his exceptional grades to actively engaging by asking questions and focusing on areas that lecturers highlight in class, as they are typically shown in test concerns.
"It's all about being present, focusing, and taking advantage of the wealth of knowledge shared by my coworkers," he stated,
- Tunde Awoshita, a final-year marketing student at UNIZIK, admits to sometimes copying straight from ChatGPT when dealing with multiple deadlines.
"To be honest, there are times I copy straight from ChatGPT when I have numerous deadlines, and I understand I'm guilty of that, many times the lecturers don't get to read through them, however AI has actually also assisted me find out quicker."
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