OTESSA 2024 Keynote: Why “Open Education” Will Become “Generative AI Education”

This talk connects the past to the present and then peeks briefly into the future. First, Dr. David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer and Cofounder, Lumen Learning - creator of the first open license for educational materials and early advocate for openness in education - takes us back to the 1990s to describe his original motivations for applying the principles of open source software in education, as well as the goals he and other early proponents of open education hoped to accomplish. The talk then skips ahead to the present and, after revisiting those early goals in the context of the current technological landscape, describes why generative AI is now a more effective tool for accomplishing these goals than OER is. The similarities between the early criticisms of OER and the current criticisms of generative AI are discussed. Finally, the talk closes with a look ahead to some ways generative AI will allow our pedagogies to expand and improve in the future.

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