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I had opportunity to revisit and update on my keynote from June in this online conference. Rather than repeating my presentation from the #OER25 conference, I’m provided a link to it in the session. My aim was to highlight my ongoing concern that our current focus on artificial intelligence may overshadow more meaningful discussions about collaboration, open policy and practice.
Great as ever to interact with passionate folks across UK education.
Recent Developments Since OER 25
Since the OER 25 conference, there have been several notable
updates:
- The Jisc Centre for Artificial Intelligence has continued to release valuable resources for the sector.
- However, recent data from Jisc and other surveys reveal worrying trends, including a lack of formal digital skills training for learners and persistent fatigue among academic staff regarding the rapid changes in the digital landscape.
- Possible game changer in Really Simple Licensing – see deck and news about substantial settlements for copyright breaches.
- I’ve highlighted what I think are useful updates from across the education sector in slides.
Perspectives on AI Use in Education
I recognised during my last session that not everyone shared
my optimism about the role of AI. However, I do not believe that the use of AI
results in catastrophic cognitive offloading.
I strongly support the need to guide learners in the
responsible and ethical adoption of AI tools. From Jisc surveys it looks as though
this is still not happening.
Looking Ahead: A Challenge
Here is one challenge I want to leave you with—not focused
on AI, but on the importance of ensuring that your institution has both a
policy and a platform that actively supports open practice, as well as the
creation and sharing of open educational resources.
I covered this at end of last keynote – we need to refocus
on how we open up , how our institutions open and how we support our colleagues
to work in the open.
It seems crazy that UK is now recognised in top 5 countries
for adoption of AI when the educational establishment has hardly moved on
adoption of UN principles around open practice and open educational practice. Though I
know what a struggle it was latterly within an institution to get systems
and people to support open practice. Old closed mindsets are not conducive to learning, sharing and collaborating.
How do we open up
- Ensure your institution has a clear policy supporting open practice and use and sharing of open educational resources. Including clear guidelines on creative commons and open licence.
- Resist AI hysteria and manage your way through this.
- Make sure staff at all levels and all students are digitally literate and can manage their digital footprints.
- Ensure that your institution has an open repository , that your virtual learning environment supports the open sharing of courses, that staff and students have a publishing space to share their reflections and academic practice.
- For learners that should be a place of their own, a blog or similar – not simply an institutional e-portfolio. The best place that will support them professionally and as lifelong learners.
- Model these behaviours be an open practitioner
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