Royce Kimmons

As AI continues its disruptive influence on society, many have claimed OER’s rapid fall into irrelevancy. After all, if AI can generate relevant, localized, high-quality content on-the-fly, then why would we need static content in the form of OER? This view, however, ignores the limits and challenges of AI and the unique potentials OER offer for meaningfully shaping our AI future. Rather than an either-or between AI and OER, a model of AI+OER helps us address some of the core challenges of AI, including inequity,opaqueness, bias, degradation, and unsustainability. Rather than AI killing OER, it may be that OER alone gives AI the ethical and practical structure it needs to truly impact education for good.