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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Leadership in Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1391485
This article is part of the Research Topic Building the Future of Education Together: Innovation, Complexity, Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Research and Open Science View all 16 articles

AI in higher education: A Systematic Literature Review

Provisionally accepted
Isolda M. Castillo Isolda M. Castillo 1*Daniel Flores-Bueno Daniel Flores-Bueno 2Sonia M. Gómez-Puente Sonia M. Gómez-Puente 3Victor O. Vite-León Victor O. Vite-León 2
  • 1 School of Humanities and Education, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Monterrey, Nuevo León4, Mexico
  • 2 Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, Lima, Lima, Peru
  • 3 Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

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    The increasing reliance on technology within higher education necessitates a thorough examination of artificial intelligence's (AI) application in academic research. This analysis aims to elucidate both the advantages and challenges associated with AI utilization, thereby paving the way for future inquiries. Such studies will be instrumental in delineating strategies for the effective integration of AI tools in scholarly research, ensuring their optimal use in advancing the field.Objective: The purpose of this research is to identify the benefits and challenges of the use of AI in the field of scientific research by analysing experiences that have implemented AI in scientific research carried out at the university level through a systematic literature review.The research questions that guided the systematic literature review were as follows:(1) What are the benefits of using AI in research? (2) What are the challenges of using AI in research?(3) What are the use and benefits of AI in scientific writing including limitations? (4) What are the main lines of research identified in studies that address scientific practice with artificial intelligence in the university context? The articles analysed were published in 2023.After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 85 articles were analysed. The analysis allowed findings such as the usefulness of ChatGPT in different disciplinary areas, challenges such as being able to identify artificial intelligence resources limitations and benefits such as being able to make processes of different kinds more efficient.It was possible to establish that although the studies analysed identified advantages in the application of AI in scientific research, it was also detected that it is necessary to have a critical and creative look to make use of AI resources, such as ChatGPT, in order to use them only as support tools and thus be able to take care of the rigor and quality in the elaboration of scientific texts.

    Keywords: artificial intelligence, Systematic Literature Review, Scientific research, higher education, chatGPT (Min.5-Max. 8) artificial intelligence, chatGPT (Min.5-Max. 8), Educational innovation

    Received: 25 Feb 2024; Accepted: 07 Jun 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Castillo, Flores-Bueno, Gómez-Puente and Vite-León. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Isolda M. Castillo, School of Humanities and Education, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Monterrey, Nuevo León4, Mexico

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