Generative AI and Teachers -- For Us or Against Us? A Case Study
This addresses the practical challenges and opportunities of GenAI for educators, but it is incremental as it adds survey data to existing discussions on AI in education.
The study surveyed university teachers on generative AI adoption in teaching, finding that over half use it, primarily for preparation with ChatGPT, and 59% report it impacting their teaching while 55% call for legislation due to concerns like inaccuracies and cheating.
We present insightful results of a survey on the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) by university teachers in their teaching activities. The transformation of education by GenAI, particularly large language models (LLMs), has been presenting both opportunities and challenges, including cheating by students. We prepared the online survey according to best practices and the questions were created by the authors, who have pedagogy experience. The survey contained 12 questions and a pilot study was first conducted. The survey was then sent to all teachers in multiple departments across different campuses of the university of interest in Sweden: Luleå University of Technology. The survey was available in both Swedish and English. The results show that 35 teachers (more than half) use GenAI out of 67 respondents. Preparation is the teaching activity with the most frequency that GenAI is used for and ChatGPT is the most commonly used GenAI. 59% say it has impacted their teaching, however, 55% say there should be legislation around the use of GenAI, especially as inaccuracies and cheating are the biggest concerns.