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Before the First Prompt: Understanding Students’ Pre‑Use Perceptions of an AI Digital Assistant in Higher Education Cover

Before the First Prompt: Understanding Students’ Pre‑Use Perceptions of an AI Digital Assistant in Higher Education

Open Access
|Sep 2026

Authors

Chris Edwards

chris.edwards@open.ac.uk

Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University

Denise Whitelock

denise.whitelock@open.ac.uk

Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University

Felipe Tessarolo

felipe.tessarolo@open.ac.uk

Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University

Duygu Bektik

duygu.bektik@open.ac.uk

Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University

Emily Coughlan

emily.coughlan@open.ac.uk

Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University

Christothea Herodotou

christothea.herodotou@open.ac.uk

Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University

Thomas Ullmann

thomas.ullmann@open.ac.uk

Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/uproc.231 | Journal eISSN: 2631-5602
Language: English
Page range: 9 - 9
Published on: Sep 30, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 Chris Edwards, Denise Whitelock, Felipe Tessarolo, Duygu Bektik, Emily Coughlan, Christothea Herodotou, Thomas Ullmann, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.