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The OELMs Architecture: The Technical Power of Generative AI Meets the Participatory Power of OER

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Or, in which Generative AI meets OER meets Reusable Learning Objects. I’ve been working on fleshing out the architecture for Open Educational Language Models and have reached a point where it’s time to share a progress update. I’ve discussed the idea with several people and gotten some really excellent feedback, and building prototypes has helped … Read more

Where Open Education Meets Generative AI: OELMs

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Prelude The extraordinary woman who mentored me through graduate school and co-chaired my PhD committee, Dr. Laurie Nelson, frequently talked to me about the idea of “current best thinking.” Characterizing something as your “current best thinking” gives you permission to share where you are in your work while simultaneously making it clear that your thinking … Read more

Why It Might Be Impossible to “AI-Proof” Written Assignments (and What We Can Do About It)

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A significant amount of time, effort, and resources go into training large language models (LLMs) to follow instructions. In fact, after the initial pre-training step, many models are specifically instruction-tuned in order to make them better at following instructions. If you’ve ever been poking around Huggingface and wondered why some models have “Instruct” in their … Read more