Documentation:OpenUBC/POSE/Open Education/2025 Updates

An overview of the suggested changes to the Open Education Module:

Creative commons Module

Provocation - Create an activity around the following questions (maybe a workshop):

Do licenses even matter in the area of Gen AI? Will and how do they continue to matter?
- Especially in the area of database training sets?
- Repackaging of other materials - e.g. AI's taking info from UBC II site and repackaging?

Expand this section. Resources and topics to include:

How can we ethically use OER to create OER; Adapt OER, Remix?

Adapt BCcampus Guidelines: https://opentextbc.ca/gettingstarted/chapter/generative-artificial-intelligence/
Review of ways GenAI can be used to create OER (Lucas and Will's workshop)
Review ethical concerns:

Climate impacts; Green Prompting; what does this mean? Mitigation?
Christina's framework? https://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2024/09/19/draft-ai-ethical-decision-framework/

Draft idea for an AI personal ethical decision framework - Christina Hendricks: "Alan Levine noted in his comment that sometimes people talking about generative AI start by acknowledging problems with it, and then “jump in full speed” to talking about its capabilities and possible benefits while no longer engaging with the original issues. This really struck me, because it’s something I could easily see myself doing too....I decided, then, to try to come up with a framework of some kind to support folks making those decisions...."

The Soul of Open is In Danger - Heather Ross: "Everything I’ve learned about open, everything I’ve ever believed about what the OER movement stands for is the antithesis of what GenAI is and does. Open is about improving access to education and the lives of learners worldwide, not just for those in privileged countries or communities. GenAI is used to create papers and images for the privileged, harming many of the very people we’ve said open is trying to benefit."

Openness isn’t just about product - Martin Weller: "...we have seen a steady shift in the focus of research from open education as stuff (OER) to open education as process (OEP). This emphasises the benefits of open educational practices in promoting social justice, developing community, changing pedagogy, etc..."

70,000 students are already using AI textbooks: From July 2024 - "Leading textbook company Pearson has outfitted its digital textbooks—specifically 50 science titles, such as Intro to Biology and Intro to Chemistry—with generative AI study tools. As of this summer, 70,000 students in over 1,000 institutions are already using these AI textbooks, according to Pearson."

Alan Levine Comment: "...I also have sat through so many webinars where speakers start with “acknowledging” the environmental impact of GenAI and tossing on top the built in biases, but then jump in full speed. I am tugging that acknowledging is lip service."

Generative Artificial Intelligence; OER Publishing at BCcampus: Here are guidelines to consider if you plan to use generative AI tools during the OER content creation process.

How Generative AI Affects Open Educational Resources - David Wiley: "...we have to move beyond narrow thinking about how generative AI impacts our work with traditional OER and begin thinking more broadly about the power “generative OER,” in which we treat generative AI itself as an OER."

Six Insights on Preference Signals for AI Training - Creative Commons: "Preference signals would empower creators to indicate the terms by which their work can or cannot be used for AI training. Preference signals would represent a range of creator preferences, all rooted in the shared values that inspired the Creative Commons (CC) licenses." For current state of Aritificial Intelligence and AI, see Creative Commons License FAQ-AI section.

Making AI Work for Creators and the Commons - Creative Commons: "...seven principles for regulating generative AI models in order to protect the interests of creators, people building on the commons (including through AI), and society’s interests in the sustainability of the commons"

AI_Commons - Open Future Foundation: "...[this] case creates an opportunity to ask fundamental questions about the challenges that open licensing faces today, related to privacy, exploitation of the commons at massive scales of use, or dealing with unexpected and unintended uses of works that are openly licensed."
Guidelines for using Generative Aritifical Intelligence to create OER - Under Guideline Recommendation, 6,7 also have explanation on how copyright works in generative ai tools.
Nightshade: a tool that prevents image from being scraped by an AI .