Opening AI to Language Learning (OAILL)

… is a series of recorded conversations on topics at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular Generative AI (GenAI), and Language Education. We have started using the acronym OAILL, pronounced /_owaıl/. With my accent this sounds like the German weil (=because), but it should be more the w in the English well.

The people in conversation are listed in the table below. The people behind the scenes are:

• Chris Brown: producer, editor
• Shahnaz Ahmadeian Fard: moderator
• Mari Ocando Finol: production coordinator

We have plans to push out the recorded conversations as podcasts, but that takes time. So, here they are for your listening pleasure:

2026

#	title	recorded
003	GenAI stuff you need to know now (part 2) Phil Hubbard & Mat Schulze	2026-01-21
002	GenAI stuff you need to know now (part 1) Phil Hubbard & Mat Schulze	2026-01-21
001	What the LLM? Mat Schulze & Phil Hubbard	2025-12-11

OAILL is supported by the Language and Applied Research Center at San Diego State University (SDSU-LARC) and the Southern Area International Languages Network (SAILN).

We are announcing the (very) soft launch of our series of conversations on Opening AI for Language Learning by posting the first version of the static page on OAILL.