Language barriers should not hinder knowledge acquisition. Yet, in 2024, most OER are in English, limiting accessibility and impact. The 2024 OE Conference offers an opportunity to explore how AI can bridge the cultural and linguistic divides through OER localization. Our focus is on AI's role in translating and culturally adapting academic or pedagogical documents. We'll discuss AI's transformative impact on OER, its current applications, and potential developments for language diversity. Examining case studies, we'll engage the audience in assessing AI's ability to convey complex concepts in OER localization, AI's limits like contextual understanding and biases and discuss how collaborative efforts within the open education community could impulse community-driven AI training and strategies for embedding AI into OER development that would optimize AI localization tools' effectiveness to promote learners' engagement and multilingual accessibility in online learning.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Gain insights on the potential role of AI in providing OER Localization;
- Enhance their knowledge on how AI-driven translation and localization tools can help adapt OER to different languages and cultural contexts, making academic or educational resources more accessible and culturally sensitive and adapted to OER users.
- Explore how AI tools can handle the subtleties of cultural context and local dialects in knowledge documents or educational materials, ensuring content relevance and cultural sensitivity.
