How Open Source Software Is Redefining Global Collaboration

In a world often divided by borders and competing interests, open source software has quietly built an alternative model of international cooperation. Unlike traditional diplomacy, this collaboration happens through shared GitHub repositories, multilingual documentation, and code reviews crossing time zones. Let’s explore why this model works and how open source has become the…

https://openedtech.global/how-open-source-software-is-redefining-global-collaboration/

Open EdTech in the African context – A recent interview with Martin Dougiamas

The following is a transcript of a podcast interview of Martin Dougiamas by Denzil Chetty on his Ubuntu Nexus podcast, made during the recent Moodlemoot Africa on 26th September 2024. A lot of it is about Moodle, but it connects into a wider important discussion of the importance of Open EdTech and Open Education in […] …

https://openedtech.global/open-edtech-in-the-african-context-a-recent-interview-with-martin-dougiamas/

Open EdTech June Meeting

In recent months we’ve been busy refining the Open EdTech mission and our roadmap. As a global association, our aim is to support education technology to be open, interoperable, sustainable and effective. We envisage a world where Open EdTech is widely used and supported by education institutions, providing a strong counter culture to that of […] …

https://openedtech.global/open-edtech-june-meeting/

Lately we've ben actively engaged in the process of helping to create the Open Source AI Definition at opensource.org to help stop the open-washing that has been happening in this space.

If this interests you, read about it here and join in!

https://discuss.opensource.org/c/ai/5

#openedtech #ai

I hope we've been learning from the record of #bigtech in recent years, and the many downsides that centralised profit-first platforms have brought. Cultural imperialism., data security, content control, etc

You don't need ChatGPT Edu deciding what you can and can't do, and you don't need Microsoft Copilot recording your screens.

Freely available language models are plentiful and powerful. Try OpenWebUI and Ollama, for example, on your own servers or even on your own personal computer.

#openedtech #globaleducation #sdg

Help us design the perfect #OpenEdTech Assistant 🤩

In a year or so a lot of us are already going to have useful fully-private LLMs running locally on our phones.

We, at https://OpenEdTech.global are designing one that is truly the one you want to keep for life, because it gets to know you extremely well, coaches you and assists you on any learning journey you choose. Half your calendar if not more will be automated and you will love it

It doesn’t need to know anything more than this. It will connect to other sources, people, and AIs as it needs to and as you allow.

So what Core Curriculum should we educate this #AI with? What are the sources of data that would be best to train this trustworthy, fully-transparent, ethical open model?

Please reply here with your suggestions! 🙂

Open EdTech at MoodleMoot Global 2023

On September 20 at the MoodleMoot Global 2023 in Barcelona we held an OET Workshop. There was some fantastic discussion, with over 150 Open EdTech enthusiasts in attendance. The workshop offered a platform to discuss the path forward for open educational technology, particularly in a world with AI personal assistants. Kickstarting the Workshop The session began with a broad discussion about the late…

https://openedtech.global/open-edtech-at-moodlemoot-global-2023/