M G Fikru

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Teaching in the AI Era

Teaching Economics in the Age of AI

Three years of classroom data reveal a rise in AI use in written assignment responses, prompting a need to redesign assignments and rethink expectations.

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Mahelet G. Fikru
Nov 21, 2025
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Illustration of an economics professor holding an Environmental Economics textbook in a classroom, with a laptop showing ChatGPT in front of students.
AI-generated image: teaching economics when every student has ChatGPT.

The short answer: Each year, I ask students in my environmental economics course the same first-week question: what are the top t…

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