Originally published at: The Gatekeepers Change. Openness Still Works. – OEGlobal
Jan Gondol charts the (r)evolution of Open Education from dial-up modems to AI-models and makes a clear-eyed case: the Open Education movement has navigated frontiers before. This is the next one.
No more skriptá! Thanks for the then and now stories @jan There would seem to be a huge amount of cooperation needed.
And how will the average person be able to navigate what is liekly more complex to understand use open LLMs than seemingly every product offering features that are right there in our interfaces (as I dodge / dismiss offers from Google in every product.
I was impressed by the PlotLines project that maps the locations from classic European literature where AI was used solely on the development and creation side, but managed by “gates”, and the ultimate product we use has no generative features in it- or as the developer writes (my emphasis added)
Here is the strange thing about PlotLines: the site you are reading has no intelligence in it at all. It is a set of data files and a small program that draws them on a map - nothing is thinking while you watch Phileas Fogg cross the Pacific. All of that happened earlier, in the workshop, where each book is put together by a short line of agents and gates before it ever reaches the shelf. Agentic to make; dead-static to read. This is that line.
And beyond the openness are questions what it means for our conceptualization of OER as static blobs of content, versus what might be dynamically generated in this new frontier.
Where does GenAI fit in for a conference experience?