AI integration in online learning raises interconnected challenges of academic integrity, equity and bias, ethics and privacy, and institutional policy gaps¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The review identifies four interconnected challenge layers: academic integrity, equity and bias, ethical/security/privacy concerns, and institutional supports, accountability and policy gaps. → Jennifer Lock 2025 q2 i? AI implementation does not support all students equitably and can produce knowledge gaps, as AI nudges rarely produce positive effects for all learners. → Jennifer Lock 2025 (2)

Evidence¶

Jennifer Lock 2025¶

Jennifer Lock, Soraya Arteaga, Carol Johnson. (2025). Integrating AI in Online Learning in Higher Education: A Literature Review. International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1615/IntJInnovOnlineEdu.2026060433

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The review's thematic synthesis of challenges across the 63 citations, describing "complex, interconnected layers" of integrity, equity and bias, ethics and privacy, and institutional policy gaps. Narrative synthesis; no effect sizes.

"The difficulties involve the complex, interconnected layers surrounding (i) academic integrity, (ii) equity and bias, (iii) ethical issues, and security and privacy concerns and (iv) institutional supports, accountability and policy gaps."

Jennifer Lock 2025 (2)¶

Jennifer Lock, Soraya Arteaga, Carol Johnson. (2025). Integrating AI in Online Learning in Higher Education: A Literature Review. International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1615/IntJInnovOnlineEdu.2026060433

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The review reports, citing Rodríguez et al. (2022), systemic inequality issues where AI implementation does not support all students equitably and can produce knowledge gaps; their study indicated AI "nudges rarely produce positive effects for all learners." Reported as the reviewed study's finding.

"Their study indicated AI "nudges rarely produce positive effects for all learners" (Rodríguez et al., 2022, p. 42)."

Discussion¶

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