2026-06-03 –, January Breakout Room
In 2024–2026, the Xerte community integrated AI into its open-source e-learning authoring tool—while safeguarding accessibility, transparency, and user control. This session offers a behind-the-scenes look at how educators, developers, and accessibility experts defined real use cases and guardrails together. We’ll share lessons learned and challenges (also financial challenges), plus early examples of AI-supported authoring in Xerte. A practical case study in responsible, community-led innovation.
In 2024–2025, the Xerte Community embarked on an ambitious journey: integrating AI capabilities into an open-source e-learning authoring tool while preserving accessibility, transparency, and user control. This session provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the community shaped that process—not driven by technology hype, but by real user needs and responsible design principles.
We will explore how educators, developers, accessibility experts, and content authors collaborated to define use cases, guardrails, and implementation priorities. The session will highlight what worked and what challenges emerged when balancing innovation with open-source values.
Attendees will also see early examples of AI-supported authoring in Xerte, such as content generation, feedback assistance, and workflow improvements, along with the safeguards designed to keep authors firmly in control.
This session is a practical case study in community-led digital innovation—relevant to anyone integrating AI into learning technologies, managing open-source governance, or designing collaborative development processes.
Participants will:
Understand the Xerte Community’s collaborative process for introducing AI features.
Learn how open-source governance can support responsible AI development.
Explore real use cases and prototypes of AI-augmented authoring in Xerte.
Gain insight into challenges such as funding, data privacy, transparency, accessibility, and user trust.
Take away practical strategies for involving a community in shaping ethical AI tooling.
Inge Donkervoort was originally a teacher. After a few years she started working as a consultant for the government and in businesses. She became interested in applying ICT for online communication, collaboration and online learning with schools, governments, health care institutions and companies and in 2010 she started her own business in online learning. Inge is director/owner from DLearning. She develops online learning materials for the companies she works with and teaches them how to use Xerte considering their goals and target group. Since 2009 Inge has been involved in the Xerte project working on various elements including the translation tool - the internationalisation part. Since a few year now Inge is working also with ai, learning analytics and adaptive learning connected to Xerte.