Sustainable Higher Education: From E-Learning to Smart Education

Parusheva, Silvia; Bobek, Samo; Zabukovšek, Simona Sternad

doi:10.3390/su151310378

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“…If a wholesale replacement of university teachers with AI technologies occurs, this will disrupt the sustainability of higher education globally. It is not possible to consider this a "smart approach" to teaching and learning based on smart devices and applications [52]. To make managerial and pedagogical decisions to improve the sustainability of universities, the new scientific results obtained above must be considered.…”

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Sustainability of Higher Education: Study of Student Opinions about the Possibility of Replacing Teachers with AI Technologies

Okulich-Kazarin,

Artyukhov,

Skowron

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has affected higher education. Students now receive new tools that optimize the performance of current tasks. Universities have also begun implementing AI technologies to help university teachers and improve the quality of educational services and solve the Sustainable Development Goal 4. Hypothetically, it is possible to replace university teachers by using AI technologies. This is a hidden conflict of Sustainable Development Goal 4 and Sustainable Development Goal 8. This research aimed to examine the perceptions of Eastern European students about the possibility of replacing university teachers through AI technologies. The authors used an information study with a bibliometric analysis of 2000 sources, planning the experiments and compiling the questionnaire, surveying 599 students using an electronic questionnaire and cloud technologies, statistical processing questionnaires using Excel tables, and verifying statistical hypotheses. Verification of statistical hypotheses for replies of 599 respondents showed that more than 10% of the surveyed students from Eastern European universities are confident that AI will replace university teachers in five years. It was shown that the opinions of students in the 1st stage (undergraduate study) from the countries of the European Union and countries outside the European Union have significant differences. The obtained results were proven using one-sided testing and standard hypothesis testing level, α = 0.05. The article was completed with multilevel managerial and pedagogical recommendations. These recommendations are designed to increase higher education’s sustainability in AI implementation.

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Sustainability of Higher Education: Study of Student Opinions about the Possibility of Replacing Teachers with AI Technologies

Okulich-Kazarin,

Artyukhov,

Skowron

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…The following study [2] explained the research interest in higher education research in Eastern European countries. The stimulus for writing our manuscript was the research of S. Parusheva, S. Bobek, and S. Sternad Zabukovšek [3]. The central idea of the paper [3] links smart education, AI, and sustainability in HE.…”

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“…The stimulus for writing our manuscript was the research of S. Parusheva, S. Bobek, and S. Sternad Zabukovšek [3]. The central idea of the paper [3] links smart education, AI, and sustainability in HE. The research paper's authors [3] raised the controversial issue of sustainability in HE in the context of smart education.…”

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“…The central idea of the paper [3] links smart education, AI, and sustainability in HE. The research paper's authors [3] raised the controversial issue of sustainability in HE in the context of smart education.…”

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“…Following the discussion in the paper [3], the manuscript's authors exclude a third area from further detailed study: the impact of higher education on sustainability [4,7,[11][12][13][16][17][18][19][20]. Moreover, the authors noted that more attention should be paid to threat and security issues within the remaining two areas.…”

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Will AI Become a Threat to Higher Education Sustainability? A Study of Students’ Views

Okulich-Kazarin,

Artyukhov,

Skowron

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Universities started to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve the quality of higher education services. However, the rapid adoption of AI tools in higher education (HE) may lead to sustainability issues. On the one hand, there are prerequisites for using AI tools to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4). On the other hand, as consumers of educational services (stakeholders), students have their own opinions about using AI in the educational process. The purpose of this study was to explore students’ opinions on the use of artificial intelligence tools in higher education. The authors analyzed student responses to the question: “Do you think AI threatens higher education in the next five years?” The authors formulated this question based on the definition of “a safe learning environment”, which is associated with a “safe” learning environment (SDG 4.3). The authors made use of a literature review, a bibliometric analysis of 5000 sources, a survey of 1104 students from eight universities in Eastern Europe through cloud technologies to host a special electronic questionnaire, statistical processing of questionnaires, and testing of statistical hypotheses. The authors formulated and tested two pairs of competing statistical hypotheses. Finally, the authors obtained three new scientific facts based on the respondents’ answers. New scientific facts were obtained using a standard level of statistical hypothesis testing (α = 0.05). The main scientific fact is that 10.17% to 35.42% of students think that Artificial Intelligence threatens higher education. According to student opinions, AI may hurt the sustainability of higher education (SDG 4.3). The authors are confident that new scientific facts help conceptualize and promote didactic theory and practice. The study results are needed to predict, plan, and implement organizational, pedagogical, and methodological measures aimed at SDG 4.3 through a “safe” learning environment while further expanding the use of AI in higher education.

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Education in the Era of Smart Cities: Transformation and Opportunities

Dimitrova,

Nikolov,

Gospodinov

2024

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The concept of the smart cities is closely related to the opportunities of smart education that reflects how advanced technology enables learners to acquire knowledge and skills more effectively, efficiently, and conveniently. The role of smart education is to support learners in the 21st century to meet and successfully cope with the challenges of a digitalized society, including developing problem-solving skills. The aim of the paper is to examine the role of the education in modern smart cities, from the quadruple helix model perspective. Smart education has become an important strategy for building a smart society, as an essential part of the model, including collaborative innovation and interaction among government, academia, business and society. By the use of technologies and innovation, the modern educational institutions could promote not only student satisfaction with the learning process, but also support the development of sustainable smart and knowledge-based cities.

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Sustainable Higher Education: From E-Learning to Smart Education

Abstract: In recent years, education has been increasingly influenced by information technology and digitization [...]

Cited by 3 publications

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Sustainability of Higher Education: Study of Student Opinions about the Possibility of Replacing Teachers with AI Technologies

Sustainability of Higher Education: Study of Student Opinions about the Possibility of Replacing Teachers with AI Technologies

Will AI Become a Threat to Higher Education Sustainability? A Study of Students’ Views

Education in the Era of Smart Cities: Transformation and Opportunities

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