Internet and ChatGPT as Learning Tools in University Environments (93287)
Session Chair: Filipa Rodrigues
Saturday, 14 June 2025 11:15
Session: Session 2
Room: Live-Stream Room 3
Presentation Type:Live-Stream Presentation
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Informational literacy is a transversal skill that all graduates need to acquire, as it plays a crucial role in managing online information for learning and knowledge development. This pilot study examines how seven university students interact with online information and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, while completing an academic task. Students’ interactions were recorded using an eye-tracking device to capture their visual attention patterns. After that, each student watched the video obtained (which contained all the actions made and the eye movements performed during the resolution of the academic task) while verbalising their thoughts and decision-making processes of each action. A definitive video file (which contained actions, eye movements and verbalizations) was obtained for each participant. Each definitive video file was analysed considering the time spent and the frequency of performing each skill: defining the academic task to be solved, planning search strategies, searching for information, processing it, and presenting and organising information (Brand-Gruwel et al., 2009; Garcia et al., 2021). Findings indicate that students dedicate a considerable amount of time to reading and formulating responses, but spend significantly less time analysing the task, planning, and searching for information. In particular, they rarely showed prior knowledge activation before searching, which may affect the depth of their responses. In addition, the limited comparison between multiple sources could reduce the complexity of their final answers. These results highlight the need to strengthen information literacy training, enabling students to maximize the potential of online resources and AI tools for academic tasks.
Authors:
Esther Argelagós, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Noël Ruscalleda, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Nerea Almendros, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Jordi Hernansáez, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Nizar Belkhyr, Universitat de Girona, Spain
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Esther Argelagós is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja in Spain
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