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Higher Education and AI: Enhancing Digital Competence and Critical Thinking

HOLEŠINSKÁ, Andrea

Basic information

Original name

Higher Education and AI: Enhancing Digital Competence and Critical Thinking

Authors

HOLEŠINSKÁ, Andrea

Edition

TEDU25 Transforming Tourism and Hospitality through Education, 2025

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Presentations at conferences

Country of publisher

Slovenia

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Organization

Ekonomicko-správní fakulta – Repository – Repository

Keywords in English

AI, tourism, digital competence, critical thinking, limitation of AI
Changed: 10/6/2025 00:50, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

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.