Convenience is not the same as learning Large language models are now part of everyday life in education, work, and public communication. They draft text, summarize documents, suggest ideas, organize arguments, and respond instantly to complex questions. Their usefulness is obvious. But that usefulness becomes a problem when speed replaces effort, and assistance turns into … Read more
Education cannot run on ambiguity Artificial Intelligence is no longer a marginal tool in education. It is already being used to draft lecture notes, generate exercises, prepare presentations, write reports, translate material, produce images and even assist with software development. Yet in many cases, students, teachers, researchers and citizens still cannot tell whether what they … Read more
Alan Levine, CC-BY, https://www.flickr.com Are teachers active creators of educational content for their classes, or a service hatch for publisher offerings? Due to the growth of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, it’s becoming easier to identify examples of creative teachers who not only develop their own materials, but also share those resources back to … Read more
This is the first part in a series around education and copyright. Besides thoughts on how we can -and should- arrange copyright around education in the 21st century, we will also write about practical tips and present movements that try to work around copyright restrictions and tap into the potential of educational innovation. While our … Read more
“Open Educational Resources Policy in Europe” is a project that brings together a coalition of international experts to strengthen the implementation of open education policies across Europe. It aims to take advantage of the current high profile of open education in Europe, demonstrated by developments such as the explicit mention of Open Educational Resources (OER) … Read more
This posting deals with the conclusions and policy recommendations from the Adult Education and Open Educational Resources study for the European Parliament, a 140-page “Study”, written by Sero, released on 15 October 2015. The Study reviews the current use of Open Educational Resources in Adult Education in Europe (with a focus on Member States of the European Union), … Read more
Looking to promote the teaching of basic computer science in schools, the state government today said that all schools in Kerala, both government and aided, will soon be equipped with electronics and Raspberry Pi kits. Speaking at the inauguration of an ‘Electronics@School’ project, initiated by the state IT Department, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that … Read more
There’s a lot of articles from community managers about how you can attract student volunteers to your open source project. This time, I’m going to write about the same thing, but from a student’s perspective. Here’s how you can attract me to your open source project. Make an open source project that I will actually … Read more
Now entering its third year, the ROSE (Red Hat Open Source for Education) Project is a cross-community effort that brings students from Tira together with students from Yonatan Middle School in Ra’anana to the Red Hat offices in Israel to learn about the Linux operating system and Python programming. The students spent six months on … Read more
