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Online symposium: OER in the age of AI

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Topic & procedure

The developments of the last two and a half years clearly show that artificial intelligence (AI) will affect and significantly change all areas of higher education. This is particularly true in the area of university teaching and therefore the production of teaching and learning materials. Since it has become possible to create teaching and learning materials at the touch of a button with just a few prompts, and since this content is then also considered a public domain work - unless creative prompt chains and independent reworking reach a level of creativity that establishes an individual copyright - questions have arisen about the impact of these developments on open educational resources (OER):

  • Will teaching and learning materials be generated primarily by generative AI tools in the future?
  • If so, do we still need CC licenses if AI-generated content is largely in the public domain?
  • In this case, are OER repositories still the right places to store this public domain content in the long term, or will open LMSs increasingly be used for this?
  • What contribution can OER and corresponding repositories make to open education in the future?
  • Or are OER possibly the ideal basis for copyright-compliant training of LLMs or enrichment via RAG solutions to help improve the quality of AI-generated content?
  • And how can the use of AI promote the development and dissemination of OER?

We want to address these and other questions in lightning talks and an in-depth discussion between Dr. Sandra Schön and PD. Dr. Malte Persike to the topic. Participants are cordially invited to take part in the discussion in a second part of the talk.

Program schedule

10:00 - 10:10 Welcome/opening: Dr. Marc Göcks (MMKH/HOOU) and Dr. Klaus Wannemacher (HIS-HE/twillo)

10:10 - 10:25 Introduction of HIS-HE based on empirical results of own studies (Dr. Mathias Stein and Funda Seyfeli-Özhizalan, HIS-HE)

10:25 - 10:45 1st Lightning Talk: AI-generated metadata (Axel Klinger, TIB Hannover)

10:45 - 11:05 2nd Lightning Talk: OER as the basis for an AI chatbot using the example of iMooX (PD Dr. Martin Ebner, TU Graz)

11:05 - 11:25 possibly 3rd Lightning-Talk: N.N.

11:25 - 12:30 Discussion on the title of the event between Dr. Sandra Schön (TU Graz) and PD Dr. Malte Persike (RWTH Aachen). The discussion will be accompanied by Dr. Klaus Wannemacher (HIS-HE/twillo)

12:30 Farewell by the organizers

Organizers are the Multimedia Kontor Hamburg (MMKH) and the Lower Saxony OER portal twillorepresented by HIS-HE, in partnership with the AG OER-Qualität des Cooperation Network OER (KNOER) and the Hamburg Open Online University HOOU.

Speakers

  • Axel Klinger (Chief Technology Officer und Leiter Bereich Entwicklung, Technische Informationsbibliothek)
  • Dr. Klaus Wannemacher (HIS-HE e.V.)
  • Dr. Mathias Stein (twillo, HiS-HE)
  • Funda Seyfeli-Özhizalan (twillo, HIS-HE)

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