The Commons

Metodiem is open educational content about artificial intelligence. It is learned without an account or payment, it is published under a free license, and every unit states the source of what it teaches.

This last point seems to us the most important. Open content without traceability is never more than an opinion put online, and there is plenty of that around. Metodiem builds on official texts and makes this visible at every step of the path, so that anyone can trace back to the source of what they learn.

Openness answers first to a practical consideration. Closed content has little chance of becoming a shared reference across a continent, because each time it requires an authorization, a negotiation, a contract. It seems more useful to us that a teacher can project a unit in class without asking anyone, that an association translates it into its language, or that a ministry takes it up in its own curriculum.

It also answers a requirement of coherence. The European framework we build on is itself published under a free license, precisely so that it can be reused. We chose to extend it in the same spirit.

Metodiem’s educational content stays open and under a free license.

Two European institutions each produced, on their own side, part of the answer to the same need. Neither one built the instrument that puts them to work together.

The European Commission and the OECD defined the competencies. Their AI literacy framework, developed with Code.org and approved by the PISA Governing Board on 8 April 2026, describes what everyone should be able to do. It organizes learning into four domains that follow one another: engage with AI, create with it, manage it, then shape it. Nineteen competencies are detailed in it. This framework will feed the PISA 2029 assessment, and it is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

The Council of Europe defined the values. Its Compass for AI and education translates its standards into concrete orientations, so that artificial intelligence in education serves human rights, democracy and the rule of law rather than weakening them. It distinguishes three dimensions of literacy: the human dimension, the technological dimension, which concerns how systems work, and the practical dimension, which concerns their use.

The Council of Europe itself explains why it insists on the human dimension: because AI literacy must answer to its fundamental values, because this dimension is rarely put forward enough, and because technical knowledge goes out of date quickly. It is an observation we take seriously, and it guides a large part of our content.

These two frameworks do not compete, they cross, and it is this crossing that structures the path.

The European framework says what to learn, and in what order. The Council of Europe’s Compass says along which dimension to learn it. Each Metodiem unit thus occupies a cell of this matrix: it belongs to a domain of progression, and it carries one or more dimensions.

A unit devoted to how a model works belongs to the technological dimension. A unit on bias belongs rather to the human dimension. A unit on formulating a request belongs to the practical dimension. These labels appear on each unit, and it is possible to filter the path by dimension.

The framework existed, the values existed. What was missing was a tool that teaches them together.

The European regulation on artificial intelligence provides, in its article 4, that organizations ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy among the people who deploy these systems. This is an obligation, not a recommendation.

The conclusions of the Council of the European Union of 11 May 2026 address, for the first time in European education policy, the relationship between artificial intelligence and teaching. They call for an ethical, safe and human-centred approach, and explicitly mention the risks linked to bias, disinformation and environmental impact.

The educational content is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. It can be copied, modified, translated, integrated into other media, including in a professional or institutional setting, on the sole condition of citing Metodiem as the source.

The platform code remains private for the moment.

People, whatever their age or starting level. There is no technical prerequisite, and learning does not require creating an account.

Teachers, who can take up a unit in class, project it or adapt it to their context without any prior step.

Institutions and organizations, which must now ensure a level of AI literacy and look for content already aligned with the European frameworks rather than building it themselves.

The institutions, which drew up these frameworks and look for concrete instruments to put them into practice.

Learning stays open. What can be financed are the services the content alone does not provide: verification of what has been learned, tracking of progress within an organization, support for teams.

A freely accessible document attests nothing to an auditor. A certification, on the other hand, produces proof, and that is a service distinct from the knowledge itself.