Course Information
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| Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
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| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Open Education & GenAI: An Introduction to the Issues
$250.00
Dates: May 3 - May 30Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
This course explores the intersection of open education and generative AI (GenAI), specifically examining what it could mean to use AI to create, revise, curate, or supplement open content. We’ll outline intellectual property concerns around AI inputs and outputs using emerging U.S. copyright guidance. We’ll consider quality, accessibility, bias, and alignment with the values of the open movement. We’ll survey how the open education community has been responding to the rise of GenAI. You’ll pick a topic that applies to your work and contribute relevant resources to a shared toolkit. You’ll develop your perspective and become more conversant in the issues to more confidently contribute to openness in your workplace.
You will not be required to use AI in this course, which will continue to be updated as this rapidly evolving landscape changes. You’ll find the most success in this course if you already have a basic understanding of open licensing and GenAI. If you aren’t sure, we suggest reviewing Introduction to Open Educational Resources from The OER Starter Kit, this primer from the Digital Futures Institute, and/or Introduction to Artificial Intelligence from the Open University.
Learning Outcomes (LO)
- Describe some ways people have used GenAI to create or adapt open content.
- Analyze the perspectives of different open practitioners on GenAI.
- Consider primary questions to ask if using GenAI to create or adapt open content.
- Develop your perspective and your contextualized approaches to supporting people about using GenAI in open education creation, adaptation, and adoption.
Course Description
This course explores the intersection of open education and generative AI (GenAI), specifically examining what it could mean to use AI to create, revise, curate, or supplement open content. We’ll outline intellectual property concerns around AI inputs and outputs using emerging U.S. copyright guidance. We’ll consider quality, accessibility, bias, and alignment with the values of the open movement. We’ll survey how the open education community has been responding to the rise of GenAI. You’ll pick a topic that applies to your work and contribute relevant resources to a shared toolkit. You’ll develop your perspective and become more conversant in the issues to more confidently contribute to openness in your workplace.
You will not be required to use AI in this course, which will continue to be updated as this rapidly evolving landscape changes. You’ll find the most success in this course if you already have a basic understanding of open licensing and GenAI. If you aren’t sure, we suggest reviewing Introduction to Open Educational Resources from The OER Starter Kit, this primer from the Digital Futures Institute, and/or Introduction to Artificial Intelligence from the Open University.
Learning Outcomes (LO)
- Describe some ways people have used GenAI to create or adapt open content.
- Analyze the perspectives of different open practitioners on GenAI.
- Consider primary questions to ask if using GenAI to create or adapt open content.
- Develop your perspective and your contextualized approaches to supporting people about using GenAI in open education creation, adaptation, and adoption.
Colleen Sanders
Colleen Sanders, MLS, M.Ed., is a librarian, instructional designer, faculty developer, and open education practitioner. She works at the intersection of people, information, technology, and learning. She has served as a faculty librarian at multiple institutions in Oregon and Washington. Currently, she supports faculty in academic and technical fields to combine information access with learner-centered design. Her goal is to engage adult learners through active learning that develops relevant, authentic, and transferable skills. She is a graduate of the Creative Commons Certificate program and the Open Education Network’s Certificate in Open Pedagogy. Her work advocating for OER policy amidst commercial textbook affordability programs earned her an OER Champion award from Open Oregon Educational Resources. She has served on multiple large-scale OER publishing projects in Oregon and Washington, first as an OER Development Consultant on the Targeted Pathways Open Curriculum project, then as an Instructional Designer, OER & Copyright Specialist, and Pressbooks Migration Lead for Washington's Open ProfTech project. She hopes to empower library and information workers in all capacities to integrate diverse skillsets into their careers to serve critical informational practices.
Quill West
Quill West has been an open education leader and advocate throughout her career and currently serves as Open Education Project Manager at Pierce College, in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. As a librarian seeking to forward open education work, Quill has helped many institutions launch and sustain open education initiatives. She headed the Library as Open Education Leader project, which invited and trained librarians in Washington to become advocates for OER in their own institutions. She collaborates with colleagues to create, adopt, adapt, and support open education projects, particularly where students shape the materials as they learn.
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