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Huyi Community：Learning Prototypes
Release time：2025-02-13 13:11:15
Community Engagement：The prototype features an AI-enhanced learning environment supported by a Learning Management System (LMS), with an integrated AI chatbot designed to enrich learners’ experiences. Integrating AI into a research-based learning (RBL) environment represents a transformative step in management education, strengthening active and enquiry-based pedagogies. The prototype engages students in learning activities along the stages of exploration, integration, and resolution, enabling performance tasks that: improve student engagement, support personalised learning pathways, and facilitate data-driven instructional decisions.
Experimentation
This prototype was piloted in the course “EC320 International Corporate Governance”, delivered at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Lifelong Learning College (Summer 2025). Over three weeks, students engaged with the Moodle-based platform (Huyixiang Lab), where the AI chatbot was integrated via the Microsoft Azure interface. Activities spanned classroom and homework tasks, supporting both individual and group coursework assignments.
AI integration
AI tools are embedded at multiple levels of the learning design:
Learning activities: Chatbots assist students with background research, data queries, testing assumptions, refining arguments, and drafting coursework. Survey data showed strong impact, with 73.3% rating RBL as very useful and 80% rating case-based scenarios highly.
Structured learning paths: Clear milestones, progress tracking, and multimodal resources (quizzes, peer reviews, chatbot interventions) supported students at each course stage.
Pedagogical mediation: Focus groups revealed challenges in query formulation and contextualising chatbot outputs. Students requested step-by-step guides, real-life exemplars, and scaffolded tasks, highlighting the continuing importance of instructor mediation.
