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Study Hall is back! This is the format where I talk to three fantastic guests about three recent studies on generative AI in higher education.

Guests for this edition of Study Hall are: Flower Darby, incoming director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Estrella Mountain Community College; Josh Eyler, senior director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and assistant professor of teacher education at the University of Mississippi; and Regan Gurung, professor of psychology at Oregon State University.

Episode Resources

STUDY #1

Kestin, G., Miller, K., Klales, A., Milbourne, T., & Ponti, G. (2025). AI tutoring outperforms in-class active learning: An RCT introducing a novel research-based design in an authentic educational setting. Nature Scientific Reports, 15, 17458. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-97652-6

STUDY #2

Lodge, J. M., and Loble, L., (2026). Artificial intelligence, cognitive offloading and implications for education, University of Technology Sydney, https://www.uts.edu.au/news/2026/03/experts-warn-unstructured-ai-use-in-schools-risks-cognitive-atrophy/contentassets/ai-cognitive-offloading-and-implications-for-education.pdf

STUDY #3

Wadinambiarachchi, S., Kelly, R., Pareek, S., Zhou, Q., & Velloso, E. (2024.) The effects of generative AI on design fixation and divergent thinking. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 380, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642919

• Flower Darby's website: https://flowerdarby.com/
• Josh Eyler's website: https://josheyler.wordpress.com/
• Regan Gurung's website: https://regangurung.com/
• Study Hall 2025 with Lance Eaton, Michelle D. Miller, and David Nelson

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