Well, I was there. The Apereo people said the recording will be posted as soon as they can caption it (hello AI?).
Martin was very generous in wearing his OEGlobal role. He did something interesting his slides by displaying a small yellow symbol on slides where he used a GenAI image generator, like the bottom right of his opening contacts slide. That’s commendable though not quite attribution (one of my hobby horses)
Screenshot of slide from Martin Dougiamis webinar on Open EdTech in n AI Future, who know how to attribute / license this? Anyhow, that’s a snazzy portrait, am I right?
In what he showed/shared, Martin has been deeply immersed hands on in AI for years, as well as “working” in his Apple VisionPro environment, and being very interested in robots.
He did open with describing the mission of the OpenEd Tech Association certainly what most people here would not only align with, but clap for:
Open EdTech is about bringing trust to education technology.
Too much of the software being marketed for education is designed by startups and Big Tech whose main purpose is to maximise profits for investors, which leads to proprietary subscription platforms designed around trapping your data and centralised products that ignore local cultural differences. When investors become unhappy these products can simply disappear. These are not ideal for designing our education system on.
Yet in going on to talk about many of the AI platforms / tools, like ones named “Open”, the challenge of AI and open education is how much we are not seeing this, right?
He was explicit about the side tracking of education from creating an informed, humane, enlightened world of citizens to more or less skills / job training for work that-- maybe AI might do?
I’d sign up for that!
So Martin did bring out two scenarios of an Open Education / AI future, the one with the robots running around doing all the chores sitting in the bottom of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. He said explicitly that in many ways, this is what the super rich have now (like paying $16000 for a robot?). Broader society access to this would require something like Universal Basic Income (UBI).
No one argues with that, right? But the how on that happening?
Martin took a brave stance here, and I am not aiming to make it an argument or go against it. We need to have back and forth, and disagreement, and cooperation on what is playing out on a daily changing basis.
I would urge others interested to watch the recording when available if anyone knows when it is out, please drop a link in a reply).
And we will hear more from Martin in his special invited session on this topic at the OEGlobal 2024 conference in Brisbane.
Look for Martin wearing those spiffy AI generated sunglasses-- maybe even the ones he shared that are capable of projection on glass.
Anyone else who was there??
When: 2024-09-11T14:00:00Z→2024-09-11T15:00:00Z
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