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Open education and open educational resources: OER and AI

This is a guide on how to find, create, and share Open Educational Resources (OER).

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a way to train computers to carry out a range of complex tasks and to learn from these tasks. It uses a process called machine learning to identify patterns in images, texts, and other materials. This process can involve human input or be fully automated. Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) is a specific kind of AI that is designed to generate new text, images, video, or audio based on the content that it has studied.

AI in OER creation

Here are guidelines to consider if you plan to use generative AI tools during the OER content creation process: 

Benefits and Challenges of Using AI to Create OER

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Here are some ways you can use AI to assist you with creating your OER materials:

1) Planning: generating ideas, outlines, objectives, summaries, lesson plans, discussion questions

2) Creating: content, quizzes, rubrics, gamification, checklists, feed back prompts, assignments, assessments, examples or scenarios of theories and concepts, visual aids

3) Proof reading and updating, translations, captions, 

Challenges:

  • Accessibility
  • Bias: Bias is an issue with all learning materials but is worsened with AI due to the content used to train the AI models and the programming of AI's decision making algorithms.
  • Quality and Reliability of AI-Generated Content
  • Data Privacy and Security
  • Equitable Access to AI Technologies
  • Ownership and Copyright: The non-human nature of AI-generated content raises complex questions about copyright and ownership.
  • Ethical Considerations
  • Hallucinations
  • Sustainability: Generative AI uses massive amounts of electricity to operate, which has led to examinations as to how environmentally sustainable generative AI is.

More information

  • See the Tampere University Library's guide (Information searching and AI) for more information on this topic more information.
  • The Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) of the Tampere Universities community Website 

Artikkeleita ja verkkosivuja/Articles and Websites

  • Bozkurt, A. (2023) Generative AI, Synthetic Contents, Open Educational Resources (OER), and Open Educational Practices (OEP): A New Front in the Openness Landscape, Open Praxis, 15(3), p. 178–184. Available at: https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.579.
  • Ossiannilsson, E., Ulloa Cazarez, R.L., Goode, C., Mansour, C. and De Gusmão, C.M.G. (2024) Artificial Intelligence Use to Empower the Implementation of OER and the UNESCO OER Recommendation, Open Praxis, 16(2), p. 237–257. Available at: https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.16.2.650.
  • Panke, S. (2024). Open Educational Resources and Artificial Intelligence for Future Open Education. Mousaion, 42(1). https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-659X/15106
  • Tlili, A., Agyemang Adarkwah, M., Lo, C. K., Bozkurt, A., Burgos, D., Bonk, C. J., Costello, E., Mishra, S., Stracke, C. M., & Huang, R. (2024). Taming the Monster: How can Open Education Promote the Effective and Safe use of Generative AI in Education?. Journal of Learning for Development, 11(3), 398–413. https://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v11i3.1657

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