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Intro Slide Title 1

An Introduction

Prof John Domingue

Knowledge Media Institute

@johndmk, people.kmi.open.ac.uk/domingue/

6th Meet-up IG group on KGs 3rd March 2023

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Open University Overview

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The OU behind David Attenborough

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OU Analyse

  • Built by KMi in 2012
  • OU Analyse (OUA) monitors student performance and engagement and identifies students at risk of dropping out
  • Weekly predictions and integrated information are made available to ALs, Staff Tutors, Module Chairs, and student support teams so that timely interventions can be made.
  • 1/3 of OU ALs now use it

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OU AI Ecosystem

Machine understandable content

AI for Assessment

Tutor assistant

Digital assistant

Course creator AI assistant

The dream machine

STUDENT

ASSOCIATE LECTURER

MODULE TEAM MEMBER

LEARNER

Scheduling and planning admin tasks

Monitor student progress

Careers advice

and course recommendations

Personalised quizzes and assessments

FAQs and pastoral questions

FAQs and pastoral questions

Share data on student experience

FAQs and pastoral questions

Personalised interventions

TITAN

An AI strategy for the OU - what we ultimately envision is a platform where we can incrementally deploy AI, creating an ecosystem of agents that can work with students and staff.

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Ian Horrocks

Dieter Fensel 

Asunción Gómez-Pérez

Frank van Harmelen

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Slide Title 8

Blockchain Accreditation

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Decentralisation, Trust and Knowledge Graphs

Andrea Cimmino, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.

Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University, Belgium.

Maria-Esther Vidal, Leibniz University Hannover and TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany.

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