Apereo Micro Conference with Martin Dougiamas (09.11.2024)

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Open EdTech in an AI Future
The majority of infrastructure that powers the whole internet is Open Source or open in a meaningful way, although we generally hear more noise from proprietary application vendors with large marketing budgets. If you’re seeing this you’re probably already a fan of Open Education Technology and know how important it is. But as we transition into a future where Generative AI will dominate a lot of the software environment, what does Open even mean and what do we want to see? As the founder of Moodle, the open source Learning Management System that is the most widely-used in the world, Martin has been thinking about these dynamics since 1999. In this session he offers his current thoughts about a future powered by Gen AI and how we might think about future EdTech.

Martin Dougiamas Since 2001, Martin has been best known as that Australian guy who founded and led Moodle, the open source learning platform that is used by institutions all over the world. A lot of his original code is still in Moodle today. Martin was full-time CEO of Moodle for over 20 years until January 2024. He recently decided to move to a new role running the Moodle Research Lab as Head of Research, where he gets to get his hands dirty with cutting-edge technologies again (especially AI and AR), which is critical for understanding where education and open education technology will go in coming decades.

Martin is also the founder of Open EdTech, a non-profit based in Brussels, which is a new association of organisations and professionals interested in promoting open technology in education. And he serves as a director of Open Education Global, a non-profit that promoted open education globally.