Beyond the Screen: Exploring Student Perceptions of AI in Education

Abstract

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into education has sparked significant debate regarding its potential to enhance learning outcomes and transform traditional educational paradigms. This study investigates the perception of students toward AI in education, exploring their perceived usefulness, ease of use, trust, concerns and satisfaction as a dimension. The study was conducted in 2024 among Agricultural Universities of Karnataka. The target audience are the students who have undertaken the use of any AI tool in their learning journey which may be Chat GPT, ARVR, educational games, Kahoot, Quizlet, personalized learning platforms, chatbots, automated grading systems etc. An ex-post facto research was carried out on a total of 120 respondents comprising of 60 undergraduate students and 60 post graduates are selected randomly. The target audience are the students of Four Agricultural Universities of Karnataka.  They have undertaken the use of any AI tool in their learning journey which may be Chat GPT, ARVR, educational games, Kahoot, Quizlet, personalized learning platforms, chatbots, automated grading systems etc. A scale was developed to measure the perception of students towards AI in education. The obtained results were tabulated, categorised and analysed using, mean, frequency, percentage, mean scores and ranking. The results were found that, majority of the respondents perceive AI technologies help them to learn more effectively and AI tools were found to improve the quality of their learning. And least score was obtained for the statement that they trust AI based systems to provide accurate and reliable information. Further the rankings will be given for each statement based on the mean score. Integration of AI has vast spread in almost all of the disciplines resulting in ease of work, enhance efficiency and many more. But it also has some of the associated issues like loss of human interaction, data privacy, and the potential for over-reliance on technology. Hence, it can the concluded telling even with the advancement of technology, it is the human who want to make use of AI as a complementary tool that enhances, rather than replaces, traditional learning experiences.