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 and Magueijo, V. and Adams, Richard and Hasty, William and Goodfellow, Martin and Liaskos, Konstantinos (2025) A "snapshot" of engineering practitioners views of ChatGPT-informing pedagogy in higher education. European Journal of Engineering Education. ISSN 0304-3797 (In Press) (https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2025.2492736)

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Abstract

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are experiencing a period of turmoil. A new discourse has proliferated in teaching and learning committee meetings- Large Language Models (LLMs) and 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 plagiarised coursework, and that students have swiftly enacted their agency. There have been knee jerk reactions, to ban ChatGPT, to ban coursework and to rely wholly on exams. More enlightened discourse in the academy refers to ‘living with’ ChatGPT and to the development of AI assisted pedagogies 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 engineering 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 ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8777-7511, Magueijo, V. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8029-1367, Adams, Richard, Hasty, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5029-3137, Goodfellow, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2151-8442 and Liaskos, Konstantinos ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7994-4383;
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