Summary of studies
Admin use
Agents that answer course and admin questions, a common starting point for institutions.
- Integrating active learning and emerging AI agent support in a blended first-year engineering course Espinosa, Whale & Selvan (2025) · Griffith University
Support studies
Out-of-hours academic and maths support delivered through AI agents.
- Enhancing student support through AI: The PAC AI Agent Initiative Page & Male (2025) · Murdoch University
- Generative AI-first Maths Support at a Regional Australian University Camacho, Bridge & Loch (2026) · Student Success
Reflection and cultural competency
Agents that guide students through reflective writing and self-assessment.
- An on-demand solution for scalable reflective tutoring using customised AI agents Chanane & Kuo (2025) · AAEE 2025
- Harnessing Generative AI For Cultural Competence Training: Exploring The Possibilities McHugh & Şahin (2026)
Teaching approaches and techniques
AI agents built into active learning, storytelling, role-play and peer learning designs.
- Storytelling is not just for children: Using an AI chatbot to engage university students Freeman (2025) · AIS SIGED 2024
- Think–Pair–Chatbot–Share: AI-Facilitated Peer Learning in Chemistry Naeyaert, Scarratt, Murphy & Pullen (2025) · Journal of Chemical Education
Feedback to students
AI-assisted marking and feedback for large cohorts, and how AI and human judgement compare.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) assisted feedback in civil engineering education Saravana, Lin, Tahmasebinia & Sepasgozar (2025) · AAEE 2025
- Artificial intelligence in the evaluation of academic writing in higher education Goundar & Li (2026) · English Language Teaching
- How generative AI can enhance personalised feedback at scale Huynh, van den Berg, Pozza & Van Ogtrop (2024) · ACSME 2024
- Hand in hand: designing and integrating human and AI-generated feedback in business education Vallis, Huber, Sun & Bryant (2026) · Journal of Work-Applied Management
- Designing AI agents for writing development: Anticipating semiotic mediation with the theoretical architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics Macnaught (2025)
Student reactions
How students actually use and respond to Cogniti agents.
- Evaluating an AI agent to assist student learning in a 200-level Genetics practical MacKay et al. (2025) · University of Otago
- Your Students Don’t Use LLMs Like You Wish They Did Kobler, Clemson, Sun & Kummerfeld (2026) · ACL 2026
Health education
Course content support and virtual patient role-plays in health and related disciplines.
- Student perceptions of personalised GenAI agents on student learning, success, engagement, and wellbeing: A pilot study of Cogniti AI Elliott, Richter, Alozie & Raidis (2026) · Technology, Knowledge and Learning
- Enhancing dental students’ history-taking skills with a generative artificial intelligence chatbot Or et al. (2025) · Journal of Dental Education
- Personalised learning for nursing education with Gen-AI chatbots Mathews, Adams & Cheyne (2025) · Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand
STEM
Developing higher-order thinking in programming education.
- Using a custom AI chatbot platform to foster higher-order cognitive thinking in programming education Otemis & Caiko (2025) · IEEE RTUCON 2025
Arts
A Socratic tutor in a conservatory musicology course.
- Cogniti, the Socratic AI tutor, and its impact on student learning in a conservatory musicology course Liang (2025) · Master’s thesis, University of Sydney
Staff-facing and learning design
Building staff capability with AI agents and using them in learning design.
- Building capacity for AI-powered learning: A collaborative trial of conversational agents in higher education Tibbs (2025) · ASCILITE 2025
- A rose by any other name: AI augmented HyFlex learning Lindsay & Jacka (2026) · Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching
Other
Related research on generative AI and creativity.
- The Impact of Generative AI on Creativity Katsanos (2026) · Master’s dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington