2020_12_11 «Opening Education with Artificial Intelligence» - Mitja Jermol

1. Opening up Education with
Artificial Intelligence
Mitja Jermol,
UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning and
member of the board of IRCAI
@Jozef Stefan Institute

2. Department for Artificial Intelligence @ Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)
Selection of H2020 Projects:
❖STAR - Safe and Trusted Human Centric Artificial Intelligence in Future Manufacturing Lines
❖HumanE-AI-Net HumanE AI Network
❖x5Gon Cross Modal, Cross Cultural, Cross Lingual, Cross Domain, and Cross Site Global OER Network
❖FACTLOG Energy-aware Factory Analytics for Precess Industries (H2020-NMBP-SPIRE-869951)
❖INFINITECH Tailored IoT & BigData Sandboxes and Testbeds for Smart, Autonomous and Personalized Services in the European Finance and Insurance Services Ecosystem
❖CyberSANE Cyber Security Incident Handling, Warning and Response System for the European Critical Infrastructures
❖NAIADES A holistic water ecosystem for digitisation of urban water sector
❖COG-LO Future COGnitive Logistics Operations through Social Internet of Things
❖PerceptiveSentinel BIG DATA knowledge extraction and re-creation platform
❖ELEXIS H2020 INFRAIA: European Lexicographic Infrastructure
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Center for Knowledge Transfer has approx. 80 people working in various areas of artificial intelligence (machine
learning, data mining, semantic technologies, computational linguistics, decision support), elearning, tech transfer and dissemination
Spinoff-s: Quintelligence, Qlector, SolvesAll, Eventregistry, JEMS, Knowledge4All, AI4Good,
Selection of Portals and Products:
❖Text-Garden (http://www.textmining.net)
❖Wikifier (http://wikifier.ijs.si/)
❖VideoLectures.NET (http://videolectures.net/)
❖Event registry (http://eventregistry.org)
❖Search-Point (http://searchpoint.ijs.si/)
❖OntoGen (http://ontogen.ijs.si/)
❖Document-Atlas (http://docatlas.ijs.si/)
❖Qminer (http://qminer.ijs.si)
Semantic-Graphs Document-AtlasVideoLectures.NET
Business Clients: Accenture Labs, Bloomberg, British Telecom, Google Labs, Microsoft Research, New York Times, Siemens, Wikipedia
Academic Partners: Carnegie Mellon, Cornel, Stanford, MIT, Uni. Maryland, KIT, UCL, W3C
Eventregistry

3. AI Research
Future of AI
Non-tech research
Policy Innovation
AI Deployment
SDG global projects
Research to Businesses
AI Education
Capacity Building Awareness
Raising
AI Network
Research Centers Network
Engagement
Advocacy
International Research Centre on Artificial
Intelligence (IRCAI.org)

4. cure, day, feeling, drink,
night, good, work, year,
today, morning, haha, worst,
love, tomorrow, time,
christmas, bad, wake, food,
bed, drunk
hangover, winning, happynewyear,
perfect, food, nye, notfair,
toooldforthisshit, dedication, sick,
fucked, badtimes, backtobed,
goodnight, yay, ouch, beer, fresh, dying,
bed, death
Core Technologies
Graph/Social Network Analysis
(GraphGarden/SNAP, IST-World, Scienceatlas,
Contextify)
Complex Data Visualization
(DocAtlas, NewsExplorer, SearchPoint)
Computational Linguistics
(Eventregistry, Enrycher, AnswerArt, iDiversyNews)
Social Computing/Web2.0 (LiveNetLife)
Decision Support (Seensy, MobiS)
Light-Weight Semantic Technologies
(OntoGen, OntoBridge)
Deep Semantics & Reasoning (Cyc, CC)
Statistical Machine Learning
Data/Web/Text/Stream-Mining
(TextGarden Suite of tools)

5. Where we have been involved with AI....
Complex systems
Telecommunication networks
Media and content understanding
User modelling and personalisation
Personalised learning
Factories of the future
Machine translation
Smart cities
Intelligent grids
Intelligent transport and cognitive logistics
Intelligent environments and IoT
Business intelligence
Science analytics and research trend detection
e-commerce and visitors modelling
Pharmaceutics and medicine
Transparent government
Anticorruption and public procurement
Anti-money laundering
Transparent Justice System
Law enforcement
Cybersecurity and cyberdefense
...

6. Mechanistic system

7. Adaptive (social) environment

8. Transformation of education…

9. … can only be done holistically
A global, open, transparent, effective infrastructure (X5gon)
An international and national policies (Recommendation)
Contentdevelopment
Engagement
AwarenessandTraining
Changingtheculture
Application
development
……………
Global Mentoring Programme (OE4BW)
Leadership in Open
Education Master
Programme (UNG)

10. What if…
Automatic ingestion,
cleaning, fusion , structuring,
preprocessing
User modelling and
understanding,
social network modelling
Career path Adaptive learning,
education and social
environment
X5oerfeed
Eventregistry
Searchpoint
Scienceatlas
X5analytics
DocumentAtlas
CurriousCat
JobAnalysis
CareerPath
Chatboots
QMiner
TextGarden
X5recommend

11. Managing a complex system
11
Number of schools in the world: est 1.2 million
Number of higher ed: >20.000
Number of teachers: >80 million
Number of commercial DL environments: >700
Number of virtual laboratories: >1500
Number of libraries: >400.000
Number of books published: est 130 million / 1.5 million textbooks
Number of OER content: >2 billion
Number of Wikipedia articles: >5.7 million
Number of DBpedia things: >4.5 million, >4.2 million in ontology, >5 billion RDF
Number of concepts in Cyc: 450.000
Number of scientific papers per year: >2.5 million
Number of news articles per day: >2 million
Number of online learning repositories: > 8.000
Number of TV channels: > 27.000
Number of websites: >1.8 billion
Number of.....
Registered sites 101,943
Countries 229
Courses 16,046,801
Users 138,286,280
Enrolments 620,032,477
Forum posts 291,154,649
Resources 141,972,412
Quiz questions 983,250,787

13. 0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020
NumberofccResources(millions)
Year
The growth of OER
Open Educational Resources
13Source: Hewlett Foundation
Various isolated sites
Various formats
Different modalities
Language diversity
Unresolved rights
Different levels of quality
Undescribed modes of use
Dead links

14. Personalisation
GoalContent and information
Methods and tools
Guidance
Motivating
Monitoring and assessment

15. Structure to be opened
Infrastructure
Content
Methods and services
Programs
Added Value Models
Policies
IT, buildings, institutions, learning environments, devices,
laboratories, …
E-Content, textbooks, data, TV shows, audio books, articles, …
Learning applications and services, collaboration and sharing services,
learning analytics, didactics, methodology, andragogy, pedagogy…
Learning programs, curricula, accreditation, …
Certification, qualifications, competences, …
Rules, quality assurance, …

16. Holistic view on openness in education
Open accessOpen software
Open content
Open textbook
Open badges
Open accreditation
Open licenses
Open source
MOOCs
OCWOER Open curriculum
Open Context Aware Environments
Open Universities
Incentives and motivation
Open value added models
Open organisation
Open legislation
Open approach
Open environment

17. How to manage such a complexity?

18. Learner
Information
/Content
Learning channel
Teacher
Human/
Machine
Content structuring and
information understanding
User modelling and
assessment
Real-time
personalisation
Intelligent assistants
AI to the rescue

19. A global, open, transparent,
effective education infrastructure

20. Learning resources open pipeline
Automatic ingestion, cleaning,
fusion, preprocessing
Cross-lingual, cross-modal
Semantic processing
Didactic design and
pedagogical processing
Resources quality
processing
Innovation Research

21. OER Website X
OER Website 1
OER Website 2
OER Website 3
OER Website 4 OER Website 5
OER Website 6
OER Website …OER Website n
$.ajax({
url: "http://log2.quintelligence.com/qlog.js", type: 'get', dataType: 'script', cache: true,
success: function() { setTimeout(function() {quintTracker(3);},100); }
});
https://x5learn.org/

22. Visited content
Visit history
Demographics
User model
Learners profiles
Personalization
Targeted learning
Observe ApplyModel
Learning/teaching/be
havior model
Incentives model
Background
knowledge
User modelling

23. User modelling
23
External Source
# Sessions (% of all incoming traffic)
# of Users (persistent cookies)
User Type
Pie Chart: % of Sessions
by User Grouping
Device Type
Pie Chart: % of Sessions
by Device type
Time Spent
Stacked Bar: Shows Time
spent in 1 min increments
Page Type
# Sessions (% of traffic from source)
# of Users (persistent cookies)
Exit
# Sessions (%) of preceding
Page Type Sessions with no
subsequent monitored activity for
same Users (persistent cookies)

24. Competency models calculation

25. Competence model refining
Sources:
Adzuna, Trovit
Jooble, Indeed,
CareerBuilder, CareerJet
Semantic
annotations
Cross-linguality
Skills
extraction
Locations
extraction
Statistics
Top Skills
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
300000
350000
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
Top Skills (December 2017)
OPEN DATA SCIENCE
PROCESS
MINING:
DATA
SCIENCE IN
ACTION
DATA
SCIENTIST
BASIC

26. Micro-credentials and Qualifications
https://0xcert.org/
Projects (Blockchain):
https://www.blockcerts.org/
https://www.myequals.net/
https://credentify.eu/

27. Learning pathways construction

28. AI: Open knowledge vs open content
OPEN SOURCE AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE AI
WEB, IoT
Learning
Checking
Learning
Checking
Learning
Teaching

29. Global Mentoring Programme
(OE4BW)

30. The main idea

31. Developers 2018 (14) Europe
Slovenia, Italy
3 x
North America
USA, Canada2 x
South America
Brasil
1 x
Asia & Oceania
Uzbekistan, India, Fiji
3 x
Africa
Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa5 x
OE Global 2019, Milan

32. Developers 2019 (35)
Europe
Slovenia, France, Switzerland
3 x
North America
USA, Canada7 x
South America
Brasil
1 x
Asia & Oceania
India, Malaysia,
Lebanon, Indonesia, Fiji
23 x
Africa
Sudan, Nigeria, South Africa
4 x
OE Global 2019, Milan

33. Developers 2020 (80)
Europe
Slovenia, Italy, Sweden
7 x
North America
USA, Canada7 x
South America
Brasil, Bolivia
3 x
Asia & Oceania
India, Fiji58 x
Africa
Sudan, Nigeria, Mauritius, Ghana,
Tansania, South Africa
7 x
OE Global 2019, Milan

34. OE4BW projects in 2018
Open Education Practices for
Language Education
Archive in Fine Arts and
Literature
Open Education Resources for
Statistic and Probability in Pacific
Creating Dynamic Online
Courses
Learning Design for Post-Secondary
Courses using SDGs and OER
Mliteracy
Realizing Traditional Built
Heritage for Sustainability Computer Automation Control of Diabetic RetinopathyWhy Infrastructure Matters? Catalyzing Change: Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion in a Global Perspective
Use of OER in teaching and learning
Booklets for midwifery students Virtualization: Cultural Activities As a
Complement to Education

35. OE4BW projects 2019
iEnergy Mathematics for All Food Consumption and Production
Storytelling and Perspectives Climate Change
Biofertilizer
Production
Designing Collaborative
Instructional Design Using
OERs
Science and Application of
Personalized Nutrition
Architectural Heritage
of 20th Century
Effective English for Teachers
Consumer Behaviour
STEM Learning for
Children in Rural Areas
Emotional
Intelligence
Research Based Pedagogical Tools for
Science Education
Supporting Refugee and
Immigrant Students in
Higher Education
Basic Statistical Literacy for
the Pacific
Online International
Language Teachers

36. Hub Coordinators were introduced to manage increased
number of projects
2018 2019
TANJA URBANČIČ
Dean of Faculty of
Engineering and
Management at
University of Nova Gorica
MITJA JERMOL
UNESCO Chair in OER,
Head of the Centre for
Knowledge Transfer,
Jožef Stefan Institute
VASUDHA KAMAT
Former Vice
Chancellor, SNDT
Women's University
JAYASHREE SHINDE
Director, Teaching
Learning Centre, SNDT
Women’s University
JENNI HAYMAN
Program manager,
eCampus Ontario
IGOR LESKO
Director of
Operations,
Open Education
Consortium
VASUDHA KAMAT
Former Vice
Chancellor, SNDT
Women's University
2020
JAYASHREE SHINDE
Director, Teaching
Learning Centre, SNDT
Women’s University
JENNI HAYMAN
Program manager,
eCampus Ontario
IGOR LESKO
Director of Operations,
Open Education
Consortium
TEL AMIEL
School of Education,
University of Brasilia
WERNER
WESTERMAN
Library of National
Congress of Chile
NAOMI WAHLS
TU Delft
MOJCA DREVENŠEK
Consensus,
Communications
Consultancy Firm
OE Global 2019, Milan

37. Leadership in Open Education
Master Programme (UNG)

38. Masters in Leadership of Open Education
• University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia)
• Goal: Educating the future leaders in open education
• International hybrid programme
• Master degree
TEL AMIEL
UNESCO Chair in OE,
University of Brasilia,
BR
JOHN SHAWE-TAYLOR
UNESCO Chair in AI,
UC London, UK,
Head of IRCAI at IJS
DOMINIC ORR
adjunct professor
University of Nova Gorica,
SI
Kiron Open HE, DE
ROBERT SCHUWER
UNESCO Chair on OER,
Fontys University
of Applied Sciences, NL
SUZANA LOSHKOVSKA
Cyril and Methodius
University, Skopje, MK
LARRY COOPERMAN
OEC former president,
US

39. Policy: UNESCO OER
Recommendation

40. Policy: UNESCO OER Recommendation
AREAS OF ACTIONS
• This Recommendation addresses five objectives:
• (i) Building capacity of stakeholders to create, access, use, adapt and redistribute
OER;
• (ii) Developing supportive policy;
• (iii) Encouraging inclusive and equitable quality OER;
• (iv) Nurturing the creation of sustainability models for OER; and
• (v) Facilitating international cooperation.

41. Process - Macro

42. Nekaj dodatnih informacij in povezav
• http://unesco.ijs.si, http://ircai.org,
• http://ailab.ijs.si, http://ct3.ijs.si,
• http://www.ouslovenia.net
• http://www.ung.si/en/study/school-of-engineering-and-management/study/2NVOI/
• https://platform.x5gon.org/join/
• http://eventregistry.org, http://newsfeed.ijs.si
• http://traffic.ijs.si/, http://streamstory.ijs.si/
• http://videolectures.net, http://opencast.org/matterhorn/
• http://searchpoint.ijs.si, http://scienceatlas.ijs.si
• http://qminer.ijs.si
• Mobility Patterns on GooglePlay
• iDiveriNews on App Store
• Curious Cat on GooglePlay
• mitja.jermol@ijs.si