Democratizing Participation in AI in Education

tl;dr – Go play around with generativetextbooks.org and let me know what you think. Earlier this year I began prototyping an open source tool for learning with AI in order to explore ways generative AI and OER could intersect. I’m specifically interested in trying to combine the technical power of generative AI with the participatory … Read more

How Generative AI Affects Open Educational Resources

This is the middle section of my September 19, 2024 presentation, Why Open Education Will Become Generative AI Education. I’m pre-posting some of the presentation content due to the very active conversation the announcement of the presentation has created. Next week I hope to post the first section of the presentation, which outlines the reasons … Read more

Toward a Definition of Open Source AI

The Open Source Initiative, which has been the steward of the Open Source Definition since 1998, is leading a multi-stakeholder initiative to define Open Source AI. The definition is currently in its eighth draft, with the goal of finalizing the definition by October, 2024. There are only a few families of models that would qualify … Read more