About the Event

The annual con­fer­ence of the Soci­ety for Media in Sci­ence (GMW) will take place from Sep­tem­ber 21 to 23, 2026 (hybrid) at the Uni­ver­sity of Applied Sci­ences Cam­pus Wien. Under the title “Higher Edu­ca­tion in Tran­si­tion: Life­long Learn­ing and Aca­d­e­mic Prac­tice in the Age of AI—Organizational, Social, and Didac­tic Trans­for­ma­tion,” the event will address changes in teach­ing as well as cur­rent chal­lenges in research and the orga­ni­za­tional struc­ture of higher edu­ca­tion.

twillo’s contribution: Open Educational Practice in the Context of AI-Driven Change. Findings from an Exploratory Stakeholder Survey

AI appli­ca­tions offer a wide range of pos­si­bil­i­ties for cre­at­ing and edit­ing open edu­ca­tional resources (OER), although these have not yet been exam­ined in detail through empir­i­cal research. In a mixed-meth­ods sur­vey con­ducted in 2025 as part of the OER net­work twillo, researchers inves­ti­gated how gen­er­a­tive AI appli­ca­tions can be pro­duc­tively used for open edu­ca­tion. The results of three quan­ti­ta­tive online sur­veys show that AI tools are already being used for tasks such as text cor­rec­tion, trans­la­tion, and image gen­er­a­tion. Over 60% of respon­dents attrib­uted high poten­tial to the use of AI for the fur­ther devel­op­ment of OER. At the same time, legal uncer­tain­ties, con­tent-related chal­lenges, and prag­matic dif­fi­cul­ties were iden­ti­fied as sig­nif­i­cant bar­ri­ers to the effec­tive use of AI in OER pro­duc­tion. In addi­tion, the sur­vey revealed fur­ther chal­lenges in the areas of ped­a­gogy, open edu­ca­tion, and AI com­pe­ten­cies, which should be addressed within the con­text of orga­ni­za­tional, social, and didac­tic trans­for­ma­tion processes in (open) higher edu­ca­tion in light of gen­er­a­tive AI.