2.1. Participants
Participants were engineering degree program students enrolled in a
first-year general studies course at a university in Spain that
consented to sharing their data (female = 26, male = 56, other = 01,
prefer not to say = 01, M-age = 18.17, SD-age =1.37). The general
studies course, Introduction to Information and Communication Technology
(ITIC), serves to introduce the university and engineering studies.
Topics include: an overview of the study program, transversal
competences at the level of higher education (learning to learn,
teamwork, written and oral communication), academic integrity, an
overview of the ICT sector, and codes of ethics and professional conduct
in engineering. The course includes plenary sessions that introduce
content and include interactive discussion led by professors, and
seminar sessions for more active student learning. Seminars activities
vary from short individual and group tasks to debates, and the
elaboration and presentation of a group written article about the future
(and ethical implications) of a technology of their choice. A revision
of the course was done in 2023-2024 to account for the availability of
GenAI tools.