Enhancing Language Learning with Generative AI: The Case of the OpenLang Network Platform
Alexander Mikroyannidis, Maria A. Perifanou, Anastasios A. Economides · Computers · 2025
The OpenLang Network platform is a sustainable online environment designed to support language learning, intercultural exchange, and open educational practices across Europe. This paper presents the conceptual framework and design of an AI-enhanced OpenLang Network platform, in which Generative AI is embedded across all language learning services offered by the platform. The integration of Generative AI transforms the placement tests offered by the platform into adaptive diagnostic tools, extends the platform’s tandem language learning service through AI-mediated conversation, and enriches the open educational resources of the platform through automated adaptation, translation, and content generation. These innovations collectively reposition the OpenLang Network platform as a dynamic, learner-centred, and sustainable ecosystem that unites human collaboration with AI-powered personalisation. Through a pedagogically informed integration of Generative AI, the case of the OpenLang Network platform demonstrates how AI can enhance openness, collaboration, and personalisation in language learning.