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Hassell, J., O’Reilly, T., Ribas, J., Dohmke, T., Pietsch, M., Welsh, M., Aguera y Arcas, B., Wu, D., Witwer, A., Gunasekara, L., & Hsieh, A. (2023). ChatGPT: Possibilities and Pitfalls. O’Reilly Media, Inc.

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• 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.