
AI Literacies and Evaluation: AI + Open Education Initiative Speaker Series
MIT Open Learning hosts this webinar in its AI + Open Education Initiative series, built around two rapid response papers on AI and open educational resources. Angela Gunder and Joshua Herron present "AI Literacies and the Advancement of Opened Cultures," arguing for literacies that let educators and students engage critically with generative AI inside open education practice. Hannah-Beth Clark and Margaux Dowland follow with "Auto Evaluation," proposing automated methods for checking the quality and safety of AI-generated lesson resources before they reach classrooms. Nick Baker, director of the Office of Open Learning at the University of Windsor, responds to both papers as a discussant, pressing the authors on practical application and institutional risk. The session closes with audience questions. The format is a working research webinar rather than a polished broadcast, with authors explaining their own papers and fielding pushback on what counts as reliable evaluation of AI-generated educational content.