Abstract:

Nowadays artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as ChatGPT, allow elaborating texts and answering specific questions very quickly. There are versions of payment and applications in development that will be soon widely integrated into the day by day. This powerful tool will be inevitably applied in the University environment becoming a new improvement strategy. However, it must be used appropriately and critically. Teachers can use it to create variants of existing activities, similar problems, new clinical cases and even test questions, very quickly. The subsequent critical review by the teacher will allow to generate a quality product in record time. In any case, this new technology useful for the preparation of activities needs to be evaluated by the teachers themselves based on the quality of the material generated. Also, there is a need to know the teachers' personal opinion on the use of this tool. Once used and once its potential is known, it will be possible to apply and integrate its use in students teaching and learning.
In this sense, it is necessary to consider the possible uses the students can make of it. If the teaching staff raises evaluable activities to be carried out outside the class, it may be that the students may rely on this tool to solve them, without truly acquiring the expected knowledge or developing critical thinking. In this way, indiscriminate use by the students can undermine the effectiveness of the activity. In other words, in this new context, the traditional methodologies and activities run the risk of not fostering the same learning by the students. Thus, in recent months, there has been an echo of its use by students, but we need to obtain real data regarding student’s knowledge, usage and personal opinion about this tool. For this reason, the proposal of the present project aims to mitigate the loss of student learning associated with activities conducted outside the classroom. It is intended to incorporate activities designed to both promote the use of AI in a rational and critical way and to avoid its indiscriminate use not linked to expected learning.
In order to maintain the learning derived from activities outside the classroom, it will be necessary to do a deep evaluation on the activity design based on the response that AI can provide to students. This could be accomplished through the use of AI in solving the activities from previous courses and evaluate their quality, since in this way teachers will become aware of the new reality. Based on this, it will be possible to identify the types of activities that need to be discarded due to their susceptibility to easy response with AI, and therefore avoiding the student learning.
The current project (2023PID-UB/011) is being developed by a teaching team constituted by 5 full time University teachers in the area of Physiology involved in up to 5 different subjects, both at graduate and postgraduate level.

Keywords:

Artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, home activities.