Marie Opdal Ulset
About
My PhD project concerns the ongoing crisis surrounding the use of large language models (ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.) in higher education. I engage in dialogue with students, teaching staff, and administrative employees who navigate unclear boundaries for AI-use in a tension between disciplinary formation ("fagdannelse") and instrumentalism. The preliminary title of the project is “The Automation of Learning in Higher Education.” This ethnographic work is based on participant observation and interviews with students and staff at NTNU in Trondheim.
Bildung ("dannelse") has long been central to the idea of the university, is the use of language models about to change this?
In the project, I take the “AI crisis” at the university as a point of departure to examine the strategies students use to pass courses and complete their educational trajectories. Examples include koking, strategic continuation-exams ("konteeksamen"), and of course the use of language models. There are significant differences in how students, teaching staff, and administrative employees think about language models, cheating, education, and knowledge. Despite differing perceptions and unclear guidelines, many students choose to explore the emerging grey zones of academic writing.
Research
Publications
2023
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Mørtsell, Tonje;
Fyhn, Håkon;
Stebergløkken, Heidrun Marie Voldheim;
Callanan, Martin;
Saksvik-Lehouillier, Ingvild;
Lønne, Tuva Fjærtoft.
(2023)
EMERGE 2023. Emerging Education – Emerging Technology: Exploring the Emerging University.
Dep. of Social Anthropology
Dep. of Social Anthropology
Report
2022
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Ulset, Marie Opdal;
Broadbent, Elizabeth;
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland.
(2022)
Automated Care in New Zealand.
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Academic article
Journal publications
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Ulset, Marie Opdal;
Broadbent, Elizabeth;
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland.
(2022)
Automated Care in New Zealand.
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Academic article
Report
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Mørtsell, Tonje;
Fyhn, Håkon;
Stebergløkken, Heidrun Marie Voldheim;
Callanan, Martin;
Saksvik-Lehouillier, Ingvild;
Lønne, Tuva Fjærtoft.
(2023)
EMERGE 2023. Emerging Education – Emerging Technology: Exploring the Emerging University.
Dep. of Social Anthropology
Dep. of Social Anthropology
Report
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2025
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Academic lectureUlset, Marie Opdal. (2025) Mister man eller får man noe menneskelig av å bruke KI som læringsstøtte?. Event: NAF Konferanse 2025 - Umistelig , Oslo 2025-10-23 - 2025-10-25
2024
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Academic lectureUlset, Marie Opdal. (2024) Studenter og KI. HFs møteplass for studieprogramledere og nestledere for utdanning , Trondheim 2024-05-14 - 2024-05-14
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Academic lecture
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Academic lectureUlset, Marie Opdal. (2024) Koking og kunstig intelligens blant NTNU-studenter. Årlig samling i Helsefremmingsnettverket , Webinar 2024-05-23 - 2024-05-23
2023
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Academic lectureCyvin, Jakob Bonnevie; Fyhn, Håkon; Saksvik-Lehouillier, Ingvild; Seland, Astrid; Bergset, Malin; Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth. (2023) Virtuell virkelighet som muliggjørende teknologi i høyere utdanning. Et spekter av erfaringer med varierte løsninger. Læringsfestivalen , Trondheim 2023-05-08 - 2023-05-09