Dr. Kim joined the AI and Language Education Panel at World Languages Day 2025.
October 17, 2025
Dr. Kim participated in the Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research (CULTR) World Languages Day 2025 Panel at Georgia State University (https://cultr.gsu.edu/wld/). The panel discussion, held virtually on the morning of October 17, 2025, focused on the theme of AI and language education.
This year, CULTR’s World Languages Day featured a pre-recorded panel designed for audiences interested in exploring the intersection of language and artificial intelligence. With opening remarks by Dr. Hakyoon Lee and moderation by Dr. Tim Jansa, Dr. Kim, along with two other panelists, shared insights on how language skills and global competency have shaped their careers while addressing questions about AI usage and development.
Dr. Min Kyu Kim
With a Ph.D. in Learning, Design, and Technology from the University of Georgia, Dr. Kim is an associate professor within GSU’s Department of Learning Sciences. Founding the AI2 Research Laboratory, Dr. Kim has many years of experience pursuing research regarding AI-driven personalized learning, technology-enhanced assessment, and learner engagement in digital environments in order to create equitable learning environments.
Dr. Marta Galindo
Currently, the director of the Center for International Resources and Collaborative Language Engagement, Dr. Galindo, research highlights language learning technology usage and AI.
Darrah DeVane
Graduating with a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from GSU in May 2025, Darrah DeVane is currently a Learning Designer at Duolingo, utilizing her language proficiency of Korean and English to create and design language courses.
Jinho presented SMART research at the NSF AI ALOE National Virtual Research Showcase.
October 16, 2025
Our graduate researcher associate, Jinho Kim, presented SMART research at the NSF AI ALOE National Virtual Research Showcase. The showcase, held from 1–4 PM (EDT) on October 16, 2025, marked NSF AI ALOE’s first national event. This interactive online gathering brought together more than one hundred researchers, educators, and innovators to explore cutting-edge advancements in AI for learning and education. You can watch the video recording ot the virtual showcase by clicking the image.
Lia published an article in International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
October 1, 2025
Congratulations on Lia’s recent publication! Lia has been actively collaborating with external scholars and building her own research network. This publication is a wonderful outcome of those efforts and reflects her growing scholarly engagement.
Noroozi, O., Haddadian, G., Gao, X., Schunn, C., Alqassab, M., & Banihashem, S. K. (2025). The value of GenAI for peer feedback provision: Student perceptions and impacts. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 22(61). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-025-00558-6
Abstract: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has sparked a global debate on its potential as a feedback source for students, yet research in this area remains limited. This study explores students’ use of GenAI during peer feedback provision. Fifty-four graduate students enrolled in a master’s course in the food science domain at a Dutch university received instruction on the effective and ethical use of GenAI. They then wrote an argumentative essay, provided feedback to peers, and revised their essays. Finally, students completed an online questionnaire regarding their perceptions and use of GenAI for peer feedback provision. Descriptive analyses were applied to survey data and comment data were coded quantitatively for the presence of comment features. The results revealed that just over half of the students chose not to use GenAI for peer feedback provision, primarily because they believed they would learn more by completing the task independently. The remaining students used GenAI to improve both high-level and low-level aspects of their feedback, and most of these students found GenAI to be moderately helpful for peer feedback provision. In terms of its impact on the peer feedback content, students who used GenAI provided more suggestions for high-level issues and offered less mitigating praise for low-level issues compared to those who did not use GenAI for peer feedback provision. These results offer valuable insights for the design and adoption of GenAI tools to enhance peer feedback practices.
A workshop proposal has been accepted for the Conference of the Southern Nursing Research Society.
August 18, 2025
The proposal we submitted in collaboration with Dr. Kyungeh An, Assistant Dean for Research in the School of Nursing, and other nursing faculty—Optimization of AI Integration for Nursing Education & Research—has been accepted for a pre-conference workshop at the 40th Annual Conference of the Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS), to be held February 19–20, 2026, at the Renaissance Austin Hotel in Austin, Texas. This is a highly competitive opportunity, with only one or two proposals selected from approximately 30 applications. Notably, it will also mark the first jointly organized event between our team and the School of Nursing.
Jinho, Seora, and I will be joining the workshop in February 2026. Hooray!