International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE)

 Paper Title:  From Content Transmission to Epistemic Construction: Redesigning University Education in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence Authors:  Ronald Jean Degen, ANEGEPE - Academia de Estudos em Empreendedorismo e Gestão de Pequenas Empresas, Brazil ABSTRACT Generative artificial intelligence challenges the university model centered on content transmission and subsequent testing. Large language models can retrieve, synthesize, and recombine information within seconds, but rapid access to information does not constitute reliable knowledge. This conceptual article argues that higher education should shift toward epistemic construction: the process of framing problems, integrating information, verifying sources, exposing assumptions, confronting counterarguments, revising provisional judgments, and defending conclusions. Drawing on Socratic inquiry, medieval disputatio, Popperian falsification, reflective learning, critical-thinking research, and scholarship...