Experiences of utilising ChatGPT for Teaching Economic and Management Sciences: A case study of second-year students at a University of Technology
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-630-7_30How to use a DOI?
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- ChatGPT; Student teachers; Learning experiences; Technology
- Abstract
The use of technology in the classroom has become a vital element in meeting the demands of the 21st industrial revolution. This study presents second-year students teachers’ experiences of utilising ChatGPT in the teaching and learning of Economic and Management Sciences. The study falls within an interpretive paradigm and adopted the qualitative case study. Open-ended questionnaire and semi-structured interview were used to generate data from 12 out of 56 second-year students at a University of Technology. Data were manually analysed through open coding. The findings show that second-year student teachers experienced both deep and surface learning as well as accommodation, assimilation, cumulative and transformative learning. The results of the study show that the students were not utilising ChatGPT for the purposes of teaching economic and management sciences. The findings also confirm that the students had no ChatGPT accounts, and they did not know how to utilise it for the teaching and learning processes. However, Google emerged as the commonest technological tool used to search for information for their assignments and not for teaching resources. The study recommends that universities need to infuse artificial intelligence tools in all module content to equip student teachers with AI knowledge necessary for integration in the classrooms. This paper calls for more comprehensive research into student teachers’ experiences of utilising technological tools during the teaching and learning processes.
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TY - CONF AU - V. Makwara AU - C. Makwara AU - K. L. Thaba-Nkadimene PY - 2024 DA - 2024/12/31 TI - Experiences of utilising ChatGPT for Teaching Economic and Management Sciences: A case study of second-year students at a University of Technology BT - Proceedings of the Focus Conference (TFC 2024) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 546 EP - 559 SN - 2667-128X UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-630-7_30 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-630-7_30 ID - Makwara2024 ER -