There are hundreds of events happening for Open Education Week (134 now and growing daily), who can attend them all? Not me.
Today I was happy I caught an early event, one of the excellent Open Education Speaker Series that @sniesse at the University of Regina Centre for Teaching and Learning organizes.
Today was George Siemens speaking on Shifting Power: University Openness and Collaboration. I will leave it up to you to track down all of the things George has been part of (yes, I was there for the first real MOOC on Connectivism back in 2008).
George of course has been very front and center with artificial intelligence, and I appreciate his conversational approach today solicit discussion on the challenging intersection of Open Education and AI.
George made an effort to challenge us to consider the systemic issues. As expected in the chat there were a ,lot of strong opinions shared. The reality harsh as it is, and George acknowledges that LLMs have and will consume all public information on the web. Some in chat suggested without attributions (which to me is impossible) the end product is moving all outputs into the public domain (yes one can challenge that too).
But I think he’s getting at what we ought to focus on in education is where we can affect how the LLMs are used.
Big share is that a conversational format, to me, is very refreshing.
This is the idea of the Share OE Week space not to write a big review, just any highlight, link, words that made you think. Or what is something you would want to tell a colleague?
Imagine if at least one participant from all 134 events could contribute one small thing? Just go to the main Share OE Week area and click the New Topic button.