TITLE:
Curating OER Content through AI and ChatGPT
AUTHORS:
Dorina Tila, Dawn Levy
KEYWORDS:
OER, Open Pedagogy, Artificial Intelligence, AI, ChatGPT
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.12,
December
26,
2023
ABSTRACT: Technological advancements have always influenced
academia; however, the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a significantly extensive impact. Technology
has already made it possible for Open Educational
Resources (OER) to provide students with freely accessible course content thereby breaking the cost barriers set by
commercially printed textbooks. Now, with the increasing use and availability
of AI, this paper takes it a step further by investigating the potential for generative artificial
intelligence tools, such as ChatGPT, to further refine the quality of OERs and
improve open pedagogy processes and content. Could AI tools be a way to improve the process of curating
and creating content by faculty and students? This paper shares students’ and
faculty’s perceptions of AI’s impact on students’ learning and academic
experiences. Faculty and students expressed divergent opinions, with students
being much more optimistic about the benefits of AI than their faculty, who cited concerns about the dangers of
delegating writing and critical thinking to AI. Nevertheless, both students and
faculty members recognized that AI is an
inevitable part of our futures that cannot be ignored. To this point, the
data suggest that a viable solution involves opening conversation between
faculty and students about the benefits of properly using AI tools and
educating students about how to use the tools ethically. Furthermore, in terms
of an OER and open pedagogy framework, by allowing students to fact-check and
curate course material using AI generated and regenerated material students can
learn to use AI tools to create original and thoughtful material by critically
analyzing and curating the AI-sourced materials.