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Beyond AI Literacy: Addressing Metacognitive Laziness in Higher Education

Plamen Miltenoff Students use AI systems to summarize readings, explain concepts, generate ideas, write drafts, solve problems, and support research. These capabilities create significant opportunities for learning. They also raise an important question: What happens...

The Delphi Method in the Age of AI: A Valuable Tool for Research and Strategic Planning at the University of Economics Varna

Plamen Miltenoff Universities face growing uncertainty. Artificial intelligence is transforming teaching, research, business, public administration, and labor markets faster than institutions can easily adapt. In such situations, historical data often provide only...

AI and the Higher Education Crisis: Moving Beyond the “Cheating” Panic to Fight Intellectual Atrophy

Plamen Miltenoff This source explores the detrimental shift from active learning to cognitive surrender caused by the premature use of artificial intelligence in universities. Rather than focusing on simple academic dishonesty, the author argues that students risk...

Build Your Own AI Fluency Challenges

The AI Fluency Challenge: Turning AI Use into Visible Thinking In the previous two posts , we explored Phillip Alcock’s practical approach to AI fluency through. The first presented six AI fluency projects to help students' thinking become visible when working with...

Beyond the Buzzwords: Translating AI Topics into Observable Classroom Skills

Plamen MiltenoffIn our previous post at the Science and Research Institute on 6 Popular AI Fluency Projects, we explored practical classroom missions like One Wrong Thing and Prompt Rescue. These projects shared a central goal: making student thinking visible. To...

6 AI Fluency Projects That Make Student Thinking Visible

Plamen Miltenoff As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into education, many educators face a common challenge: how can students use AI while still demonstrating their own thinking? The answer lies in AI fluency. AI fluency goes beyond knowing how...

From AI Literacy to Verification Literacy: The Debate Around Citation Hallucination Checkers

Plamen Miltenoff The rise of generative AI in academic writing is creating a new problem for research integrity: hallucinated citations. These are references appearing credible yet none existent, contain incorrect metadata, or combine details from multiple real papers...

ChatGPT and the Cognitive Trade-Off Between Critical and Creative Thinking

Plamen Miltenoff A systematic review of 67 studies reveals that generative AI acts as a double-edged sword for student cognition, significantly impacting critical and creative thinking based on how it is utilized. While the technology can...

Short Videos, Attention, and Executive Control: What Universities Should Learn From New EEG Research

This research investigates how short-form video platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts impact the neurological functions of young adults. Using EEG technology, the study reveals that high levels of engagement with these apps correlate...

Functional, Critical, and Rhetorical AI Literacy in Research

Plamen Miltenoff Researchers currently use AI systems to search literature, summarize articles, develop research questions, assist with writing, analyze data, and even simulate peer review. Parker and Becker argue the need for a new understanding of AI literacy for...

Part 1. AI in Teaching and Learning, What the Literature Already Agrees On

Част 1. ИИ в преподаването и ученето, по какво литературата вече се съгласява In this discussion of AI in teaching and learning, I draw on two types of sources. The first includes academic studies and conceptual papers that offer theory, research design, and stronger...

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How librarians are redesigning research in the age of AI

Как библиотекарите променят изследователската практика в ерата на ИИ Academic research is undergoing a structural shift. On one side stand established systems built on databases, controlled vocabularies, and structured search strategies. On the other side are AI tools...

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Beyond Prompting: Teaching Students to Think With AI, Not Just Use It

Отвъд промптването: Да научим студентите да мислят с ИИ, а не просто да го използват At the University of Economics – Varna, the question is no longer whether generative AI belongs in higher education. It already does. The more urgent question is what kind of thinking...

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Mapping the AI Research Tools Landscape: A Practical Guide for Researchers 

Картографиране на екосистемата от AI инструменти за изследвания: практическо ръководство за изследователи The landscape of AI tools for research is expanding fast. New platforms appear almost weekly. Many promise to improve literature review, writing, data analysis,...

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From Tools to Systems: How AI Workspaces Reshape Research Practice

От инструменти към системи: как AI работните пространства променят изследователската практика The idea of an “AI workspace for researchers” is shifting fast. Tools no longer sit at the edges of the workflow. They begin to structure the workflow itself. Shoulde.rs...

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Публикуване в ерата на ИИ: как да разпознаете рисковете и да защитите авторството си

Кари Милър, старши изследовател при Online Learning Consortium, представи своя опит на конференцията ICEBM в Икономически университет – Варна. Нейният пост в LinkedIn насочва вниманието към нарастващ проблем, който засяга пряко вашата работа като изследовател. Вие...

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Academic Work Under Pressure: The Hidden Costs of AI in Higher Education

Академичният труд под натиск: Скритите разходи на ИИ във висшето образование Artificial intelligence is entering higher education at speed. Numerous institutions frame this shift as progress. The American Association of University Professors presents a different...

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