Generative Assistants as Study Partners: A Field Study of Use Patterns Across a Semester

Authors

  • Eufemia Cerqueira Centre for Learning Analytics, Baixo Mondego Centre for Digital Education, Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal Author
  • Eibhlin Lehane Centre for Student Partnership, Slievenamon Centre for Digital Education, Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland Author
  • Ludovic-P Hennebelle Centre for Higher Education Studies, Bresle Laboratory for Learning Sciences, Eu, France Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22694275

Keywords:

Generative Assistants as Study Partners; Educational technology; E-learning; Evidence synthesis; Research methodology

Abstract

Generative Assistants as Study Partners has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider community can
now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current
evidence for generative assistants as study partners, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an
eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out for themselves.
Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket
avoidance.

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