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Plan to Attend an Online Workshop About Integrating AI and Metaliteracy to Develop OER

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Are you interested in learning how to apply AI to create Open Educational Resources (OER)? Tom Mackey will explore this topic in an online presentation entitled “Advancing OER Through Metaliteracy and AI Integration” on November 12, 2025 at 8:00AM EST (New York) / 15:00 SAST (South Africa).

AI-generated image using ChatGPT 5 to show the integration of Metaliteracy, AI, and OER.

This virtual event is organized by the North-West University (NWU) UNESCO Chair and part of the NWU OER Fellows and the SADiLaR Digital Humanities OER Champions Project.

As noted in the event description:

The presentation introduces key concepts from metaliteracy and emerging AI literacy models, focusing on the updated metaliteracy goals and learning objectives, which have been revised to address the unique challenges and opportunities of AI-enhanced teaching and learning. Participants will engage in a practical workshop where they adapt and apply these themes to their own OER projects. Real-world examples from the Digital Media Arts program at Empire State University will illustrate how metaliteracy supports self-directed and multimodal learning in AI environments.

Session Takeaways:

  • Gain practical insights into how AI tools can be effectively applied to the development of Open Educational Resources (OER) through the lens of metaliteracy.
  • Participate in guided discussions and interactive learning activities that emphasize ethical, reflective, and collaborative engagement with AI in OER creation.
  • Explore strategies to empower educators and learners as metaliterate creators who design, share, and adapt OER for a global learning community.

Don’t miss this virtual event. Add it to your calendar and join via the Microsoft Teams link in the event announcement.

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Humans in the Loop: Advancing Metaliteracy for Generative AI Learning Environments

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This year’s 2025 European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) hosted in Bamberg, Germany featured an international panel that presented on Humans in the Loop: Advancing Metaliteracy for Generative AI Learning Environments. The presentaton took place on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 and explored how metaliteracy provides a holistic framework for responding to the global opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI).

Framed around the idea of learners as “humans in the loop” (Wu, et. al., 2022), the session highlighted diverse case studies that offered practical strategies for empowering individuals to engage with AI critically, ethically, and collaboratively.

Representing the team in person were Matt Moyo (North-West University, South Africa), Kristine N. Stewart (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates), and Tom Mackey (Empire State University, USA), (all pictured above). The panel also drew on the important contributions of Brenda Van Wyk (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Megan Eberhardt-Alstot (Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology, USA), and Kristen Schuster (University of Southampton, UK).

The case studies showcased during the session reflected a wide range of perspectives and areas of inquiry, including Generative AI and the Metaliterate Learner, Responsible Use of AI in Postgraduate Research, Misrepresentation in AI, Inclusive Curriculum Design, and the Ethics of AI in Digital Media Arts. Together, these themes underscored the value of metaliteracy as a framework for engaging with AI while emphasizing the human capacity for metacognitive reflection, ethical responsibility, and collaborative knowledge construction.

As part of her Information Literacy Weblog, Sheila Webber blogged about our session: Humans in the Loop: Advancing Metaliteracy for Generative AI Learning Environments.

The conference also featured a second panel related to AI and Metaliteracy based on a paper co-authored by the IPILM Project Team, entitled “Combining Information Literacy and Metaliteracy to Advance Transnational Group Learning about AI. Learning Process and Learning Outcomes, Results from a Case Study.”

If you would like to share your own explorations with AI and Metaliteracy, feel free to reach out to us and we would be happy to share via our Metaliteracy.org blog.

Tom and Trudi

Reference

Wu, X., Xiao, L., Sun, Y., Zhang, J., Ma, T., & He, L. (2022). A survey of human-in-the-loop for machine learning. Future Generation Computer Systems, 135, 364–381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2022.05.014