Generative AI and Teachers -- For Us or Against Us? A Case Study
Jenny Pettersson Elias Hult Tim Eriksson Tosin Adewumi
We present insightful results of a survey on the adoption of generative
artificial intelligence (GenAI) by university teachers in their teaching
activities. The transformation of education by GenAI, particularly large
language models (LLMs), has been presenting both opportunities and challenges,
including cheating by students. We prepared the online survey according to best
practices and the questions were created by the authors, who have pedagogy
experience. The survey contained 12 questions and a pilot study was first
conducted. The survey was then sent to all teachers in multiple departments
across different campuses of the university of interest in Sweden: Lule{\aa}
University of Technology. The survey was available in both Swedish and English.
The results show that 35 teachers (more than half) use GenAI out of 67
respondents. Preparation is the teaching activity with the most frequency that
GenAI is used for and ChatGPT is the most commonly used GenAI. 59% say it has
impacted their teaching, however, 55% say there should be legislation around
the use of GenAI, especially as inaccuracies and cheating are the biggest
concerns.