Saturday, November 01, 2025

AI is a test higher education can’t afford to fail - Sam Dreyfus, University Business

\At its best, AI has the potential to:
Act as a tutor, adapting to each learner’s pace
Support educators by freeing them from routine tasks
Uncover inefficiencies that redirect resources toward students
Prepare graduates for a workforce where AI literacy will be as essential as computer literacy was a generation ago
But potential does not fulfill itself. If we have technology that can increase engagement, strengthen retention and give students a clearer path to success, we have a responsibility to use it.

A generative artificial intelligence-enhanced multiagent approach to empowering collaborative problem solving across different learning domains - Lanqin Zheng, Zhe Shi, Lei Gao -Science Direct

Collaborative problem-solving skills are among the most important skills in the 21st century. However, learners exhibit significant deficiencies in terms of their collaborative problem-solving skills. Emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have given rise to transformative opportunities to facilitate collaborative problem solving through the introduction of adaptive learning mechanisms in educational settings. The results indicated that compared with chatbot-based and traditional approaches, the GenAI-enhanced multiagent approach had more significant effects on learning achievements, knowledge elaboration, and collaborative problem-solving performance and skills. The implications of these findings are discussed in depth with the goal of advancing the use of GenAI to empower collaborative problem solving.