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New Research Shows Students Want More AI Guidance from Faculty
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n New Research Shows Students Want More AI Guidance from Faculty\n \n\n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Canada NewsWire\n \n\n\n\n\n Study from D2L and Online Learning Consortium shows higher education students use AI as an always-on study partner to support creativity and save time\n \n\n\n\n\n TORONTO\n \n\n ,\n \n\n May 13, 2025\n \n\n /CNW/ - D2L, a global learning technology company, alongside the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), has found that higher education students are supporting the charge in artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, using it to help generate ideas, save time and deepen engagement with materials – and they want faculty to keep up.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Student Engagement and AI\n \n\n offers new research on AI usage in higher education, showing that students are learning how to apply AI to their studies independently, but they want more guidance from faculty on how they should do so. The survey also found that students can see AI as an always-on study partner and are turning to it for feedback, editing, and tutoring support when educators are unavailable, or if students are afraid to ask for help.\n \n\n The\n \n research\n \n also found that:\n \n\n\n Students use AI to\n \n spark creativity\n \n in brainstorming,\n \n save time\n \n on repetitive tasks and\n \n as a tutor\n \n to produce practice questions, step-by-step explanations or feedback – but note it's not always a reliable resource for conducting research.\n \n\n In its role as a study buddy or tutor, the research found that\n \n AI helps deepen emotional engagement with course materials\n \n , increasing interest, meaningfulness, and belonging.\n \n\n Some students find AI\n \n encourages\n \n\n the development of new skills\n \n , while others see a risk of becoming over-reliant and losing creativity and critical thinking skills.\n \n\n Students expressed a desire for faculty to be more willing to integrate AI into learning and to\n \n have more reasonable policies\n \n around AI use as opposed to forbiddin...