Opening Minds: Artificial Intelligence in Digital and Open Education

Opening Minds: A i icial In elligence in Digi al
and Open Educa ion
D . eng. Diana ANDONE
Di ec o Digi al and Dis ance Educa ion
Depa men
Poli ehnica Uni e si y o Timisoa a, Romania
6 Oc obe 2025, IEEE DEMOCON, FAU Boca Ra on
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Poli ehnica Uni e si y o Timisoa a,
Romania
1920
Educa ion
Licence
Mas e
Doc o a e
Full ime, dis ance lea ning,
li elong lea ning
Academic
Poli ehnica Uni e si y o Timisoa a,
Romania
Elea ning.up . o
Since 1998

Eu opean Uni e si y Alliance
h ps://www.eud es.eu/
h ps://www.eud es.eu/
My eposi o y on AI
h ps://zenodo.o g/communi ies/ai_andone_ esea ch/
Impo ance on he use o AI in educa ion
Lea ning has become
one o he majo ways o
using Cha GPT
10,2% om all he
p omp s in Cha GPT a e
clea ly asking o suppo
in lea ning
(± 2 billions coming om
7 millions use s pe
week)
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aa93 e9 142e/economic- esea ch-cha gp -usage-pape .pd

UNESCO global epo on AI and he Fu u e o
Educa ion (inspi ed by )
𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗔𝗜 𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗴𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
AI and educa o s
𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲
𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆
UNESCO Digi al Lea ning Week, Sep embe 2025 h ps://unesdoc.unesco.o g/a k:/48223/p 0000395236
UNESCO global epo on AI and he Fu u e o
Educa ion (inspi ed by )
𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
AI u u es no only abou compu a ion, in elligence, powe , pene a ion
— o e hink wha “knowing” eally means.
— how we know and how we ind ou abou hings, how we acqui e
in o ma ion, alida e and unde s and i s alues
— Digi al di ide – hose who can ‘own’ i
— No only echnical bu ans o ma ional: how do we de ine lea ning,
p og ess, and human iden i y in an AI age?
UNESCO Digi al Lea ning Week, Sep embe 2025 h ps://unesdoc.unesco.o g/a k:/48223/p 0000395236
UNESCO global epo on AI and he Fu u e o
Educa ion (inspi ed by )
Powe 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜
AI in schools and uni e si ies is ine i able
— educa ion sys ems ha e choices and he powe o shape di ec ion
— oppo uni y o ein en ion s. isks o o e -au oma ion and cul u al/ language bias
𝗔𝗜 𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗴𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
Class ooms can’ be educed o da a poin s
— AI mus espec he incompu able na u e o lea ning
— Building AI “wi h” educa o s, no “ o ” hem
— Reshaping he lea ning s a s wi h
how we e alua e and assess knowledge and compe ences
how we e alua e and acc edi he quali y o he educa ion
UNESCO Digi al Lea ning Week, Sep embe 2025 h ps://unesdoc.unesco.o g/a k:/48223/p 0000395236
UNESCO global epo on AI and he Fu u e o
Educa ion (inspi ed by )
Powe 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜
AI in schools and uni e si ies is ine i able
— educa ion sys ems ha e choices and he powe o shape di ec ion
— oppo uni y o ein en ion s. isks o o e -au oma ion and cul u al/ language bias
𝗔𝗜 𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗴𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
Class ooms can’ be educed o da a poin s
— AI mus espec he incompu able na u e o lea ning
— Building AI “wi h” educa o s, no “ o ” hem
— Reshaping he lea ning s a s wi h
how we e alua e and assess knowledge and compe ences
how we e alua e and acc edi he quali y o he educa ion
UNESCO Digi al Lea ning Week, Sep embe 2025 h ps://unesdoc.unesco.o g/a k:/48223/p 0000395236
UNESCO global epo on AI and he Fu u e o
Educa ion (inspi ed by )
Inequali ies in educa ion
AI can close di ides
— bu only i i is localized, con ex ualized, and as open as i can
— Bias, cul u al, ma ginalized g oups will pe sis
— Economical and digi al di ide will be enhanced
𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
— anspa en , ai , and accoun able by design and s uc u e
— Go e nance— i equi es democ a ic, pa icipa i e o e sigh (no only
echnical o e hical)
— S a egic adop ion o AI wi h all ac o s in ol ed and hei accoun abili y
UNESCO Digi al Lea ning Week, Sep embe 2025

UNESCO global epo on AI and he Fu u e o
Educa ion (inspi ed by )
𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆
𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
Policy mus keep pace wi h as -mo ing AI capabili ies
balancing human and machine in elligence
— suppo ing open and collabo a i e s uc u es
UNESCO Digi al Lea ning Week, Sep embe 2025
OPEN PRACTICES and AI
Wha we ha e…? h ps://gi hub.com/ma ke place? ype=models
Manus
A i icial In elligence and Open LLMs

AI and Open Educa ion
•Sep embe 2025, a publicly de eloped la ge language
model (LLM) is eleased — co-c ea ed by esea che s a
EPFL, ETH Zu ich, and he Swiss Na ional
Supe compu ing Cen e (CSCS) - ALPS
•This LLM will be ully open: This openness is designed o
suppo b oad adop ion and os e inno a ion ac oss
science, socie y, and indus y.
•A de ining ea u e o he model is i s mul ilingual
luency in o e 1,000 languages.
h ps://www.swiss-ai.o g/
TildeOpen LLM: Eu ope’s So e eign Mul ilingual
AI
h ps:// ilde.ai/ ildeopen-llm/
Componen s o an Open Educa ional Language Model (OELM)
h ps://opencon en .o g/blog/a chi es/7628 Da id Wiley, Dec 2024
In elligen Tu o s in Educa ion
AI TUTOR PRO
AI Tu o P o In e ace o he pe sonalized AI u o used
in Ha a d’s expe imen
Jamwo ks
HARVARD AI TUTOR JAMWORKS
UPT Vi ual Campus AI
OPENAI
V. So escu, D. Andone -De eloping In elligen Tu o s wi h A i icial In elligence o Digi al Educa ion, IEEE DEMOcon, 2025
Figu e 6. OpenAI
BLOOM AI
AZURE AI
OLLAMA
Figu e 7. Azu e AI
Figu e 8. Bloom AI Figu e 9. Ollama
Figu e 10. The Powe o AI h ough API
In eg a ion o an AI u o in o Moodle
Technologies and Solu ions Used

UPT Vi ual Campus AI Implemen a ion
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We used a s able VPS, su icien o unning he Llama 13B model o es ing and in eg a ion
in o Moodle.
Figu e 12. Running he Llama2:13B model
Figu e 11. Ins alling Ollama on he se e
Figu e 13. Ollama unning publicly Figu e 14. Con igu ing AI Tu o Poli o Moodle wi h Ollama
Figu e 15. Se ings o he Ollama module
V. So escu, D. Andone -De eloping In elligen Tu o s wi h A i icial In elligence o Digi al Educa ion, IEEE DEMOcon, 2025
UPT Vi ual Campus AI Tes ing
39/16
Tes ing was ca ied ou on wo cou ses: “Da a P o ec ion and Open Licenses” (in
English, Book o ma ) and “Ad anced Mul imedia Technologies” (in Romanian, ee o ma )
in UPT Vi ual Campus (Moodle ).
Figu e 16. P omp o ex gene a ion Figu e 17. Con igu ing pa ame e s o all 3 ac ions
Figu e 18. Summa izing he ex om he i s
cou se
Figu e 19. Explaining he ex om he i s cou se
V. So escu, D. Andone -De eloping In elligen Tu o s wi h A i icial In elligence o Digi al Educa ion, IEEE DEMOcon, 2025
UPT Vi ual Campus AI
in eg a ing an open-sou ce language model in o a eal LMS:
• acili a e access o in o ma ion, pe sonalize lea ning, and au oma e
epe i i e asks
•all wi hin a con olled, anspa en , and sa e amewo k o use s.
Challenges:
•High se e cos s i deployed o he whole uni e si y
•T aining and suppo o s a and s uden s
•E alua ion o he Impac on lea ning
V. So escu, D. Andone -De eloping In elligen Tu o s wi h A i icial In elligence o Digi al Educa ion, IEEE DEMOcon, 2025
Open educa ional p ac ices and AI
AI can enhance he P oduc ion, managemen , use and euse o open
educa ional esou ces.
De eloping and applying open/public pedagogies in eaching p ac ice, wi h
s able AI
A i icial In elligence and Open Educa ional Resou ces
OER Con en De elopmen
Cou se ac i i y in Ins uc ional Technologies wi h s uden s om he
Mul imedia Technologies Mas e in 2024
S uden s used 11 di e en ools
Some Open AI ools
De eloped 17 OERs

Mul imedia educa ional examples c ea ed wi h
AI
Syn hesia.io
•C ea e a
lesson o a
cou se ideo
based on you
own ma e ial,
o a esou ce,
edi i and
adap i
A i icial In elligence and Open Educa ional Resou ces
OER T ansla ion and Localiza ion
millions OERS a e in EN
Au oma ed ansla ion ools powe ed by AI
Au oma ed ansla ion and ex o oice
Pe sonalisa ion and adap a ion
MOOC in eg a ion
h ps://digi allib a y.io/
Timisoa a’s He i age in he digi al wo ld
5 his o ical neighbou hoods Allego y o senses
A i icial In elligence and Open Educa ional Resou ces
OER T ansla ion and Localiza ion
Spo ligh He i age Timisoa a
In eg a ion o OpenAI API Voice- ex o ansla ion and oice on
websi e
Co-c ea ed by s uden s a Mul imedia Technologies Mas e
De eloped in Oc obe – Decembe 2023 by a g oup o Mas e
s uden s - Valen in So escu, Lucian Mu esan, Ana Cainiceanu
The Voice on ex is o English and Romanian Language
h ps://spo ligh - imisoa a.eu/
AI Voice on Spo ligh He i age websi e
In Romanian language he numbe s and yea s
a e no au oma ically ead p ope ly ( he yea s
a e ead on EN s yle) – a special p og am was
de eloped o b eak numbe s and all yea s on
sepa a e digi s, and in digi s pai , so he ex -
o- oice can be gene a ed co ec ly
S uden s inc eased he numbe o cha ac e s
o be ead mo e hen 4096 o he mp3

A i icial In elligence and Open Educa ional Resou ces
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Possibili y o euse con en
Open p ac ices can imp o e he unde s anding, compe ences and use o AI
Eu opean Council o Doc o al Candida es and Junio Resea che s
h ps://www.eu odoc.ne /wg/academic-in eg i y-and-a i icial-in elligence-wg
Bozku , A. (2023). Gene a i e AI, Syn he ic Con en s, Open Educa ional Resou ces (OER), and Open
Educa ional P ac ices (OEP): A New F on in he Openness Landscape. <i>Open P axis</i>,
<i>15</i>(3), 178–184. h ps://doi.o g/10.55982/openp axis.15.3.579
A i icial In elligence and Open Educa ional Resou ces
Pe sonalized Lea ning
ecommenda ions o OER based on a lea ne 's pe o mance, lea ning
p e e ences, and de elopmen a eas
Open da a and lea ning analy ics wi h p edic i e models
Xpo e OEA Module, UK's i s Mic oso Open Educa ion
Analy ics module h ps://www.openeduca ionai.o g/
A i icial In elligence and Open Educa ion
MIT Open Lea ning
challenges and oppo uni ies o AI o open
educa ion
nine apid esponse pape s —
w i en by esea che s and p ac i ione s ac oss
he wo ld
how AI-powe ed open educa ional esou ces can
os e equi y and inclusi i y in educa ion,
eplicable models o ans o ming educa ion
de elopmen
h ps://openlea ning.mi .edu/news/new-pape s-explo e-challenges-and-oppo uni ies-ai-open-educa ion
A i icial In elligence and Open Educa ion
AI and Open Educa ion o All
Tecnologico de Mon e ey (Mexico)
OEGlobal 2024 Open Wi h A i icial
In elligence Awa d Winne
AI Da abo
AI A a a P o esso
TechnoIdeas AI Gene a o
TechnoBo
h ps://awa ds.oeglobal.o g/awa ds/2024/open-ai/ai-and-open-educa ion- o -all/
AI o suppo eaching/lea ning
app op ia e AI ool o quickly scope a opic
and o c ea e sho summa ies
o iden i y and ansla e subjec -
speci ic ocabula y in o mo e
unde s andable e ms and c ea e a
glossa y
loca e any e e ences ci ed,
Discuss whe e AI can ail
Whe e in hei lea ning s uden s can use Gene a i e AI o
ind ou abou a new opic, o o esea ch an idea?
Assess / Re lec

AI o suppo eaching/lea ning
s uc u e hei s udy no es e ec i ely in o
a a ie y o o ma s (eg isual, bulle -
poin s, lis s, ables, mind-maps)
o gene a e p ac ice ques ions – s udy
buddy
de eloping hei esea ch and da a
analysis skills
How s uden s may use Gene a i e AI o suppo
consolida ion o hei lea ning, assess unde s anding?
Assess / Re lec
AI o suppo eaching/lea ning
AI o gene a e examples o di e en
ypes o academic w i ing o
p esen a ions based on he same opic
and di e en o ms a gumen a i e,
desc ip i e, exposi o y and na a i e
eedback on examples o hei
w i ing om di e en gene a i e
AI ools
gene a e al e na i e
explana ions o di e en
con ex s, gi e mo e examples
and sugges analogies
How s uden s may use Gene a i e AI o imp o e hei
academic w i ing?
Assess / Re lec
Highe educa ion in AI – wha can we do
Policy conside a ions
Speci ic p inciples and
guidelines pe a ge
g oup (s uden s,
eache s, esea che s
e c.)
T aining and suppo Sho cou ses (s uden s,
eache s, esea che s
e c.)
De elop compe ences Adap ins uc ion and
assessmen (p inciples
o open educa ion)
Imp o e academics and
esea ch e hics
Fos e a cul u e o
science in AI-d i en
scien i ic esea ch
Small, easily
accessible
cou ses,
con e ences and
e en s
Familia ize
you sel wi h
he basics
Upda e syllabus
o he
gene a i e Al
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he ool's
limi a ions and
use i in
combina ion
wi h o he
esou ces
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C ea e unique
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academic
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Co-c ea e o con ol and bene i
om Gene a i e AI in Educa ion
Regula ion Adop Use cases
Lea n Teach/
Resea ch
OPEN PRACTICES and AI
AI will shape e e y indus y
bu in educa ion, i will shape i s
amewo k
My eposi o y on AI
h ps://zenodo.o g/communi ies/ai_andone_ esea ch/