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Why Open Education Will Become Generative AI Education
David Wiley, YouTube, University of Regina, 2024/09/25

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Good talk drawn from a history of why we developed open educational resources, how AI supports that original objective, how the use of AI changes what we can do in open education, and we as open educators will work with AI. David Wiley writes: "I gave this talk for the University of Regina in September, 2024. The primary argument of the talk is that generative AI is, or soon will be, a more effective tool for increasing access to educational opportunities than OER (as we have understood them for the last 25 years)."

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NotebookLM summarizes my dissertation
D'Arcy Norman, D'Arcy Norman, PhD, 2024/09/25

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Before doing anything else, go to this page and listen to the 12-minute audio recording. I'll wait. Now, what's amazing is that this was completely generated by AI and is a summary of D'Arcy Norman's dissertation on the teaching game. "It misses much of the dissertation, reports Norman, but "it's not a bad overview." As a short summary, it could do nothing else. And the audio is compelling. I couldn't resist tryng it with my own work on connectivism, producing my own audio in the same format. I couln't have produced a better version! Listen to it here. I also created a notebook - I'm not sure whether it's accessible, but here's the link.

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They say conversation is the music of the mind
Building ActivityPub, 2024/09/25

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This is another in a series of posts from Ghost as the makers of the blogging and newsletter platform integrate with the fediverse. They're getting close and it won't be long before they send out beta invitations. I'm particularly interested in this initiative because people post longer-form content (like this article) on Ghost, and not just short social media posts (WordPress users can also join the fediverse via a plugin but I've found its performance to be spotty). Follow this Ghost newsletter on the fediverse at @index@activitypub.ghost.org

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