Post #1932392
2026-04-30 07:42 UTC
Ben Ws blogpost about LMS and academic content assetisation is spot on but saying LMS "impose templates on how courses can be taught and what content can be used during classes" is *slightly* misleading. In fact dig-learning can be anything you want it to be - but by default is digital. A certain flattening can happen, but can also be very diverse, open & creative. But! The more automated you are, the more extractive the platform(s) are.
#academia #academicchatter
https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/ai-and-the-amplification-of-academic-content-assetization/
Replies (1)
-
@openrisk@mastodon.social 2026-04-30 08:13
@DrPen@mastodon.social the post somehow mixes too many challenges. To make the point with an extreme but not completely unrealistic example: Imagine the LMS is open source Moodle (which btw seems to be very pro "AI"), run by a non-profit, and using an open source LLM that has been trained on material the authors approved and released under some creative commons license. Even after removing all monetary profit-driven complications, the educational utility of courses that are LLM generated "assets" is not obvious