UNL Professor weighs in on students using AI in the classroom
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — As students prepare to fill classrooms once again, so does artificial intelligence.
A recent study shared with Axios found that more college students are regularly using AI for their coursework.
According to the American University’s Kogod School of Business, more than 80 percent have used it for academic purposes.
Adrian Wisnicki, a Professor of English and Co-Director at the UNL AI Institute, said many view AI as a valuable job skill.
“After 3 years, faculty and administrators are still “figuring it out” and figuring out how to engage with it in the classroom and how to set different kinds of boundaries,” he said.
Wisnicki said AI use varies by classroom and discipline.
In his English courses, students tend to use AI less or in more controlled ways.
He said that lower-level general education courses are used more widely.
“There is no way to teach in the way one taught in 2022 or 2021, now in 2026,” he said. “Because especially anything that’s not in the direct view of the instructor happening in the classroom, students can apply AI to it. Any kind of homework that can be assigned can be done with AI.”
