Taming the Monster: How can Open Education Promote the Effective and Safe use of Generative AI in Education?

Abstract

The development, use, and timely promotion of Open Education (OE) has been effective in addressing myriad educational concerns, including inclusivity, accessibility and learning achievement, among many others. However, limited information exists in the literature concerning how OE could enhance Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), which is receiving extensive interest and criticism at this time. To address this research gap, this study relies on the Open Educational Practices (OEP) framework of Huang et al. (2020) to provide various OEP scenarios that could help to promote and facilitate the effective and safe adoption of GenAI in education. The findings of this study could provide guidelines on how relying on OEP when adopting GenAI could help in ensuring quality education which is the sustainable development goal (SDG 4) of the United Nations (UN).

Keywords

• Open Education (OE)
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Open Educational Practices (OEP)
• Generative AI (GenAI)
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• ChatGPT learning