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

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UPDATE: I have changed the name of this line of work from “open educational language models” to “generative open learning environments” as explained here. Though the name has changed, the goals of and approach to the work remain the same. Or, in which Generative AI meets OER meets Reusable Learning Objects. I’ve been working on … Read more

Where Open Education Meets Generative AI: OELMs

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UPDATE: I have changed the name of this line of work from “open educational language models” to “generative open learning environments” as explained here. Though the name has changed, the goals of and approach to the work remain the same. Prelude The extraordinary woman who mentored me through graduate school and co-chaired my PhD committee, … 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