The Use of ChatGPT / Open AI in Safety Science Higher Education: Pragmatically Enhancing the Student Experience via Assessment Design
Lead institution: Central Queensland University
Country: Australia
Project primary contact: Dr Karen Klockner (k.klockner@cqu.edu.au), Senior Lecturer
Project primary contact: Montana Technical University USA
Project Title: The Use of ChatGPT / Open AI in Safety Science Higher Education: Pragmatically Enhancing the Student Experience via Assessment Design
The project is: In progress
Project Summary:
The use of ChatGPT and OpenAI is seen as a technology innovation for early higher educational adopters as part of the scholarship of learning and teaching practices. However, whilst many benefits for its use in teaching and learning have been proposed, the early stage of its adoption of its use in assessment design allows for a deep exploration on the value of its use from the student perspective.
This project is therefore interested in exploring the 4Ps of Pragmatism in the use of ChatGPT/OpenAI in Safety Science assessment design and the student’s learning experience with this technology. Students from a leading North American University studying safety science courses were surveyed to ascertain their views on the use of ChatGPT/OpenAI in their course assessments. Student responses were mapped against the 4P’s of a pragmatism, used as a teaching philosophy in the Safety Sciences, which prescribes that teaching should be practical, pluralistic, participatory, and provisional.
Results indicated that students were predominately positive about the use of ChatGPT/Open AI in their learning journey and reported that it enhanced their development of professional practice through stimulating thinking and problem solving whilst also developing mastery and competencies within their learning journey.
Impact: Influencing AI's utility as a higher education tool (content and teaching method) in relation to students' knowledge gained, professional behavioural change (new behaviours in learning and practice), and adoption of new skills, competency, and mastery.
Audience: Students and educators
This output is part of a member project - AI Garage: Creating the Future Now which collects and curates cutting-edge practice examples of AI. You can explore other submissions here.