📅 19 June 🕔 15:00 CEST (18:30 IST) 🎙️ Dr. Jako Olivier

As Open Educational Resources (OER) continue to reshape access to quality education worldwide, a new wave of innovation is on the horizon. In this third OE4BW webinar of the year, Dr. Jako Olivier explores how generative artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is influencing the development and use of OERs—raising new questions about inclusion, openness and global equity.

Open Educational Resources (OER) have long been hailed as a transformative force in democratizing access to knowledge. With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence, educators now have powerful tools at their disposal to create and adapt educational content. However, this intersection of OER and GenAI introduces complex questions about equity, accessibility, openness, and cultural relevance—especially in the context of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

This webinar examines the potential of GenAI to support the values at the heart of the Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) initiative. It critically explores whether AI-generated content can truly embody the spirit of OER—being not only openly licensed but also contextually appropriate and inclusive of diverse linguistic and cultural identities.

The session will offer insights into:

• The legal and ethical dimensions of licensing AI-generated content in alignment with open education principles.
• The implications of linguistic and cultural bias in large language models on learners in underserved and underrepresented communities.
• Strategies for leveraging GenAI to co-create educational materials that are equitable, locally relevant, and designed for sustainable development impact.

We invite the participants to reimagine the integration of AI in open education not merely as a technological innovation but as a moral imperative to bridge knowledge divides.

About the Speaker

Dr. Jako Olivier is an Adviser at the Higher Education at the Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver, Canada and an Adjunct Professor of Open Education at the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Previously, he was a professor and UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources at North-West University, South Africa. He is rated as an established researcher by the South African National Research Foundation. Since 2021, he has acted as a mentor within the Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) initiative.

Can’t attend live? The recordings will be available soon after the webinar on Videolectures website.

This webinar is part of the Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) international mentoring program, which empowers participants to co-create high-impact Open Educational Resources (OERs) aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 4: Quality Education. This webinar is for OE4BW developers, educators, researchers, and anyone passionate about open knowledge and inclusive education.