The Digital Education Council conduced a survey named 2024 Global Student AI Survey to find out how many students use AI in their studies. It was found that the majority of the students who were surveyed (86%) use AI to study. Most of the students admitted that they are using artificial intelligence regularly with 24% saying that they use AI every day. 54% of the respondents use AI weekly while 54% use it once a week, according to a survey.
The survey was done among 3,839 students of bachelors, masters and Phd in 16 countries. As most of the students admitted to using AI for study purposes, 66% used ChatGPT for this purpose. ChatGPT was the most used AI tool among respondents of the survey. Other most used AI tools among students were Grammarly and CoPilot with 25% students using each tool.
When asked why they use AI tools, 69% students said that they use them to search information, 42% check grammar on AI tools, 33% use them to summarize documents and 28% use them to paraphrase a document. 24% students also use AI tools to create the first draft for their work. Even with many students using AI, not many of them were confident about their AI skills, with 58% saying that they do not have adequate AI knowledge and skills. 48% said that they do not know how they feel about AI adoption in the workforce and 80% of the respondents saying that their university’s integration of AI tools do not meet their requirements.
Students have a lot of expectations with AI with 73% saying that their universities should provide AI training to both faculty and students. 72% want their universities to offer courses about AI literacy, 71% want their universities to include students whenever there are talks about AI implementation in educational institutions and 51% of the respondents said that their universities should increase the use of AI in teaching and learning.
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The survey was done among 3,839 students of bachelors, masters and Phd in 16 countries. As most of the students admitted to using AI for study purposes, 66% used ChatGPT for this purpose. ChatGPT was the most used AI tool among respondents of the survey. Other most used AI tools among students were Grammarly and CoPilot with 25% students using each tool.
When asked why they use AI tools, 69% students said that they use them to search information, 42% check grammar on AI tools, 33% use them to summarize documents and 28% use them to paraphrase a document. 24% students also use AI tools to create the first draft for their work. Even with many students using AI, not many of them were confident about their AI skills, with 58% saying that they do not have adequate AI knowledge and skills. 48% said that they do not know how they feel about AI adoption in the workforce and 80% of the respondents saying that their university’s integration of AI tools do not meet their requirements.
Students have a lot of expectations with AI with 73% saying that their universities should provide AI training to both faculty and students. 72% want their universities to offer courses about AI literacy, 71% want their universities to include students whenever there are talks about AI implementation in educational institutions and 51% of the respondents said that their universities should increase the use of AI in teaching and learning.
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