A survey of the use of AI-assisted tools in higher education in the Czech Republic

Abdelhalim Elkadi

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

The use of AI-assisted tools by university students have dramatically increased. It has raised concerns for the university’s’ administrative departments. Students tend to use AI-based technologies for personalised assistance, time management, and receiving instant feedback and can sometimes unethically use these AI technologies such as plagiarism and cheating during coursework. The main objective of this thesis is to analyse to use of AI-assisted tools by university students in Czech higher education. The partial objectives used to attain the main objective were the conduction of survey questionnaire that was completed by 125 random targeted university students in the Czech Republic to collect data and analyse their attitudes and behaviour towards the use of these AI tools, the conduction of search policies and rules about using AI-assisted tools among Czech universities, and the result’s analysis and contrasting with the findings of other studies. The use of AI-assisted tools has grown internationally after the Covid-19 pandemic. The impact of these technologies has reached institutional and administrative levels. Significant attention has been brought up to this expansion in terms of technology trust and integration in higher education. This research paper sets out to address and analyse the potential for major chatbots like ChatGPT to increase student engagement and success during their academic journey, including the assessement of the benefits and challenges of AI-assisted tools used by students in higher education in the Czech Republic to answer one research question, How can AI technology assist students during their academic profession? Future researchers can conduct comparative studies across different countries or regions to understand the differences in the adoption, patterns, and effectiveness of AI-assisted tools in higher education. Researchers can analyse faculty members‘ attitudes, expectations, and concerns regarding the integration of AI tools in teaching and administrative processes.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education, Research Tools, Technology Adoption

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 14. 3. 2024

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 21. 5. 2024
• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Miloš Ulman, Ph.D.
• Reader: Jakub Samek, Ing.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme:
Informatics