Higher Education and AI: Enhancing Digital Competence and
Critical Thinking

k 2025

Higher Education and AI: Enhancing Digital Competence and Critical Thinking

HOLEŠINSKÁ, Andrea

Základní údaje

Originální název

Higher Education and AI: Enhancing Digital Competence and Critical Thinking

Autoři

HOLEŠINSKÁ, Andrea

Vydání

TEDU25 Transforming Tourism and Hospitality through Education, 2025

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Stát vydavatele

Slovinsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Organizační jednotka

Ekonomicko-správní fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

AI, tourism, digital competence, critical thinking, limitation of AI

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 9. 6. 2025 14:54, Ing. Bc. Andrea Holešinská, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The importance of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing, and thus higher education must reflect it. The qualitative research focuses on the implementation of AI in teaching. The target group was Czech students from master’s degree programme. They participated in an experiment that tested their ability to use AI and their awareness of its limitation. Students got instructions to undertake a task. Students had to write a critical essay about tourism policy. The evidence of the experiment was based on students´ outcomes (submitted essays) and on their interviews. The interviews revealed that students acquired valuable personal experience with AI, and they improved their digital competence as well. In general, they appreciated the opportunity to use AI in their learning. The key findings of the research are the prompt is essential – the more specific the prompt is the more quality answer students received; AI hallucinates – the more complex the task is the more often AI provides inaccurate outputs; the language of the prompt matters – prompts in native language (Czech) return text with misinterpretation (this is the worst limitation of AI). The most crucial finding for students is that they must be critical to AI responses and always check resources and references. AI is a good servant but a very bad master. From the teacher perspective, AI stimulates students’ attention and their engagement in learning.

Přiložené soubory

TEDU25-Holesinska-AI.pdf

Citovat

HOLEŠINSKÁ, Andrea. Higher Education and AI: Enhancing Digital Competence and Critical Thinking. In TEDU25 Transforming Tourism and Hospitality through Education. 2025.

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HOLEŠINSKÁ, Andrea. Higher Education and AI: Enhancing Digital Competence and Critical Thinking. In \textit{TEDU25 Transforming Tourism and Hospitality through Education}. 2025.

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