Reasoning Competency in the AI-Enhanced Higher Education

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10.2991/978-94-6463-630-7_21How to use a DOI?

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Reasoning Competency; Human-AI Collaboration; Higher Education

Abstract

This conceptual piece explores the notion of Reasoning Competency (RC) within the context of higher education (HE), particularly in the era of AI-enhanced learning environments. It examines how AI technologies can reshape the way reasoning is taught, learned, and applied, emphasizing the importance of RC as a core educational outcome. The paper considers reasoning as a dynamic process—an evolving skill set that spans inferential thinking through to reasoning itself. It probes the ethical and moral dimensions of AI-assisted reasoning, questioning how algorithms influence decision-making and knowledge construction, and how HE can foster a critical engagement with these technologies. The piece proposes a novel idea of human-AI collaboration in the educational setting, suggesting that AI can both augment and challenge human reasoning capacities. In this collaboration, the human learner remains central, guided by the pedagogical imperative to develop RC as a way to navigate increasingly complex intellectual terrains. As AI technologies redefine the boundaries of intellectual work, the paper argues that a robust understanding of RC is essential for learners to effectively interact with both AI tools and human knowledge, ensuring that students attain reasoning competency at a satisfactory level. The use of AI tools should therefore be optimized in such a way that students are not deprived of opportunities to develop reasoning competency. Such tools should thus offer more avenues for the students to become competent in reasoning.

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AU  - Anilkumar Krishnannair
AU  - Syamala Krishnannair
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/31
TI  - Reasoning Competency in the AI-Enhanced Higher Education
BT  - Proceedings of the Focus Conference (TFC 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 375
EP  - 392
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-630-7_21
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-630-7_21
ID  - Krishnannair2024
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