AI literacy represents the technical knowledge, durable skills, and futureready attitudes required to thrive in a world influenced by AI. It enables learners to engage, create with, manage, and design AI, while critically evaluating its benefits, risks, and ethical implications.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a “machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments” (OECD, 2024). As defined in the EU AI Act, and in alignment with the OECD definition, “AI system means a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments” (EU AI Act, 2024).

The definition of OER currently most often used is “digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research”. OER includes learning content, software tools to develop, use and distribute content, and implementation resources such as open licences. This report suggests that “open educational resources” refers to accumulated digital assets that can be adjusted and which provide benefits without restricting the possibilities for others to enjoy them.

The PISA 2029 Media & Artificial Intelligence Literacy (MAIL) assessment will shed light on whether young students have had opportunities to learn and to engage proactively and critically in a world where production, participation, and social networking are increasingly mediated by digital and AI tools.

In the Netherlands, a 2008 report on open educational resources spurred interest in developing a way for teachers across the country to collaborate on educational materials and practices. The result is Wikiwijs, literally “Wikiwise”, an Internet-based platform where teachers can find, download, develop and share educational resources. Developed by the Open Universiteit Nederland and Kennisnet at the request of the ministry of education, the platform is based on open-source software, open content and open standards. The Wikiwijs platform was launched in December 2009; then, after eight months of testing, a revised version was launched in September 2010.
Teachers can freely use anything they find in the Wikiwijs database in their classrooms. While the scope of Wikiwijs covers the entire Dutch education system, from primary schools to universities, during this trial phase, the only school subjects examined on the platform are mathematics and the Dutch language. All documentation on Wikiwijs is in Dutch.