A research initiative exploring knowledge, provenance, and contextual learning in the age of AI.
Enter the InitiativeBut learning without context, provenance, and sources
creates a new kind of educational blindness.
Knowledge detached from its origins becomes unverifiable, context-free, and epistemically fragile.
Rich historical, disciplinary, and cultural context is flattened into searchable, sourceless summaries.
Learners optimize for output, not understanding. The process of engagement is bypassed, not supported.
AI systems fabricate citations, misattribute ideas, and generate plausible-sounding falsehoods at scale.
Without depth, without sources, without the productive struggle — comprehension remains permanently shallow.
OpenEdCorpus is not an OCR tool. Not a viewer. Not a RAG app. Not a chatbot. These are layers. The core is something deeper.
A new methodology for working with knowledge in the AI era — where sources, context, and provenance are not features, but foundations. Where learning means encountering the original.