What’s of interest? The AI + Open Education Initiative
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The mission of MIT Open Learning is to transform teaching and learning at MIT and around the globe through the innovative use of digital technologies. We fulfill our mission by supporting MIT faculty and students in bold experiments to enhance our residential education; promoting and enabling rigorous, empirical, interdisciplinary research on teaching and learning; providing platforms for digital education; sharing research and best practice by convening and partnering with schools, universities, companies, NGOs and governments; and extending MIT’s knowledge to the world.
The remarkable growth of Artificial Intelligence poses new benefits and new challenges to the field of open education. To meet the moment, MIT Open Learning is now soliciting rapid response papers and multimedia projects from stakeholders in the United States and internationally to articulate how generative AI might accelerate (or hinder) the promise of open education to offer engaging learning experiences.
Our long-term vision is to bring together the energy and attention of MIT Open Learning, MIT faculty, leaders in open education, leading industry representatives, and leaders in philanthropy to more closely examine the challenges and opportunities that AI presents for open education. We welcome you to join us in identifying measurable next steps for understanding the role of Artificial Intelligence in the future of open education.
This is one among many items I will regularly tag in Pinboard as oegconnect, and automatically post tagged as #OEGConnect to Mastodon. Do you know of something else we should share like this? Just reply below and we will check it out.
As a jury member, I’m looking forward to reading the abstract submissions. I also encourage those in community colleges to submit proposals. I hope we will have strong community college perspectives represented!
Thank you for helping us spread the word about the new AI + Open Education Initiative from MIT Open Learning, and thank you Heather for being part of the jury!
We seek rapid-response papers that examine how AI can help sculpt the open access education ecosystem. Papers can describe projects in progress or critical paths forward.
Accepted papers will be published in a new, open, online collection and receive seed funding of $2,500 to support the continuation of the work. Co-authored and collaborative projects are especially welcomed, as well as multimedia productions.
Thank you Heather and Alan for helping us share this new initiative. I’m really looking forward to hearing people’s ideas and catching up with all the creative work and emergent possibilities in this exciting space. The list of potential topics suggested in the call are just a starting point, to keep our mental wheels turning and meshing at the intersection of AI + open education:
Inclusive open educational resources (OER) and practices
Human-centered education
LLM transparent infrastructure and open licensing issues
Professional development and support for educators
Innovative teaching approaches, tools, and technology
New knowledge discovery (search) and learning modalities
Research on student learning
New financial models for making open scalable and sustainable
Minority-serving institutions’ initiatives and perspectives
Ethical and legal implications of AI-enhanced open education
Accessibility principles and practices
Climate change and climate justice
Creativity, the arts, and what it means to be human
