AI挑战：大学教师如何评估AI时代高等教育的现状与未来（英）.pdfVIP

TheAIChallenge

HowCollegeFacultyAssessthePresentand

FutureofHigherEducationintheAgeofAI

BYC.EdwardWatson,AACU

LeeRainie,ElonUniversity’s

ImaginingtheDigitalFutureCenter

ForewordbyLynnPasquerella

President,AmericanAssociationofCollegesandUniversities

ighereducationiscontinuallyevolvingalongsidetransformativetechnologies,fromtheprintingpressandthe

blackboardtocalculators,computers,andtheinternet.Yet,fewinnovationshaveenteredourclassroomswiththe

Hspeed,scale,andimpactofgenerativeartificialintelligence.ChatGPT,Gemini,Claude,andCopilot—oncenovel

tools—havequicklybecomewovenintoeverydayacademiclife.Thespeedofthistransitioninvitesnotonlyattentionbut

alsocandorasweconsiderhowthesetechnologiesareshapingteaching,learning,andunderstanding.

ResultsfromAACU’slatestnationalsurveyof1,057facultymembers,conductedinpartnershipwithElonUniversity’s

ImaginingtheDigitalFutureCenter,offerinsightintohowcollegesanduniversitiesarenavigatingthispivotalmoment.

Acrossdisciplinesandinstitutionaltypes,facultyexpressdeepconcernabouttheconsequencesofwidespreaduseof

GenAI.Anoverwhelming95percentofrespondentsbelievethesetoolswillincreasestudents’overrelianceonartificial

intelligence,withthree-quarterssayingthatimpactwillbesubstantial.NinetypercentworrythatGenAIwilldiminish

students’criticalthinkingskills,and83percentanticipatedecreasedstudentattentionspans.Thesearenotperipheral

anxieties;theygototheheartofwhathighereducationexiststocultivate—habitsofmindsuchascriticalanalysis,

reflection,persistence,andjudgment.

FacultyalsoseeGenAIreshapingtheirownwork.Eighty-sixpercentsayitislikelyorextremelylikelythatthese

technologieswillaltertherol