Impact of AI-Generated Tools on Teaching Resources in Higher Education: The Mediating Role of Instructional Innovation Skills from the Perspective of University Teacher Preparation — A Literature Review and Future Research Directions
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https://doi.org/10.63808/acde.v2i3.480Keywords:
Generative AI tools, Higher education, Teaching resources, Teaching innovation ability, Teacher preparation, Literature reviewAbstract
The rapid popularization of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is profoundly reshaping the form and supply model of teaching resources in higher education. The instructional innovation skills and preparedness of university teachers are proposed as potentially critical mediating variables for the educational effectiveness of AI technology. From the perspective of teacher preparation, this study conducts an integrative narrative review of core literature on AI application in higher education teaching in recent years, and presents an integrated analysis of the impact paths of AI-generated tools on teaching resources, the potential mediating role of teachers’ instructional innovation skills, and practical challenges. The study shows that AI-generated tools may affect the higher education teaching resource system from three dimensions: generation and expansion of resources, personalized adaptation, and evaluation optimization. Teachers’ instructional innovation skills are proposed to play a key mediating role between AI tools and teaching resource quality through three potential paths: AI literacy improvement, teaching model reconstruction, and evaluation system innovation. Current research still has limitations such as insufficient authenticity of empirical scenarios, inadequate in-depth exploration of mediating mechanisms, and a lack of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research. On this basis, this study proposes future research directions from five aspects: mechanism testing, context expansion, methodological optimization, teacher development, and ethical governance, to provide theoretical references for the construction of university teaching resources and the development of teacher capabilities.
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