A 'snapshot' of engineering practitioners views of ChatGPT-informing pedagogy in higher education

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Murray, Mike and MacLachlan, Ross and Flockhart, Gordon M. H. and Adams, Richard and Magueijo, Vitor and Goodfellow, Martin and Liaskos, Konstantinos and Hasty, William and Lauro, Veeti (2025) A 'snapshot' of engineering practitioners views of ChatGPT-informing pedagogy in higher education. European Journal of Engineering Education. ISSN 0304-3797 (https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2025.2492736)

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Abstract

A new discourse has proliferated in teaching and learning committee meetings- Large Language Models (LLMs), most commonly Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT). ChatGPT ‘went viral’ across HEIs during 2022 and it could be said that for academics, this has been more ‘shock’ than ‘awe’. A shock that this Artificial Intelligence (AI) software can generate semi-credible coursework, and that students have swiftly enacted their agency. In this paper we take an ‘employability’ lens on ChatGPT and contribute to a growing body of research on AI within HEIs. Through understanding how employers and their employees are adopting LLMs in their workplace. Our Qualtrics survey of practicing engineers (N = 86) was undertaken over a four-week period during the period June-July 2023 and provides a ‘snapshot’ in time. That is, given the rapidity of how ChatGPT is metamorphosing, our data and subsequent conclusions are attributable to a version ChatGPT 3-3.5 in use during this period.

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Murray, Mike ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7465-4870, MacLachlan, Ross ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5581-9529, Flockhart, Gordon M. H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8777-7511, Adams, Richard, Magueijo, Vitor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8029-1367, Goodfellow, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2151-8442, Liaskos, Konstantinos ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7994-4383, Hasty, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5029-3137 and Lauro, Veeti;
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