How Should Higher Education respond when AI enters the

Classroom?

Wenxin Yu1,* Yuan Huang1

1 School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Hunan Pro, Xiangtan 411201,

China

Emails: wenxin.yu@mail.mcgill.ca; slowbird@sohu.com

Received: November 08, 2025 Revised: December 15, 2025 Accepted: January 14, 2026 ⋆ Corresponding author

ABSTRACT

Driven by the global informatization wave, AI technology is leading a profound change in education, and the

traditional higher education model is facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Firstly, the advantages

of the comprehensive integration of “AI+ Education” are sorted out from the two aspects of students and teachers.

Secondly, it analyzes the transformation of teachers from classroom manager to learning ecological designer from

three aspects: education personalization and fairness, man-machine teaching collaboration and interdisciplinary

scene innovation. Next, the construction of student evaluation system is discussed from four dimensions of thinking

visualization. Finally, the author expounds the characteristics of the teaching profession that cannot be replaced by

AI.

Keywords: AI Higher Education Classroom Challenge Transformation

1. INTRODUCTION

AI is an artificial intelligence technology that uses complex algorithms,

models, and rules to create new content such as text,

images, sounds, videos, and codes through large-scale data

learning and training. AI represented by ChatGPT quickly

set off a wave of large-scale model research and development

around the world. ChatGPT reportedly surpassed 1

million registered users in just five days after its launch; The

number of monthly active users exceeded 100 million within

two months of launch. According to Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao

website reported on January 27, after the release of the

new model of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company

DeepSeek, the heat continued to soar. As of Monday morning,

DeepSeek was the No. 1 download on Apple’s free App Store

in both China and the United States. At present, AI technology

has been widely used in many fields such as education,

healthcare, agriculture, and finance. It has revolutionized

the way researchers conduct natural language processing and

artificial intelligence research, enabling not only the creation

of more advanced chatbots and conversational agents, but

also easier collaboration and data sharing, as well as access

to and analysis of large data sets from a variety of sources.

AI technology is gradually penetrating into all fields of education,

bringing a profound change to traditional higher

education and promoting the innovation of educational theories

[1, 2, 3, 4]. According to the individual needs of students,

AI can provide personalized and adaptive teaching services,

and tailor appropriate learning methods for them. At the same

time, it can also provide strong support in writing, whether it

is daily writing or research paper writing, it can give helpful

advice and assistance to help students improve their writing

level. The application of AI technology has changed

the original ecology of the classroom, promoted the teaching

mode from the dual structure of "teacher - student" to

the ternary structure of "teacher - machine - student", realized

the full coverage of the learning process, and created a