 Dobro začasno, dajte vlasni. Svojih zelo pravom. V poli, teknijku, Milano, Kampus Bovis. Tama je Lamberto Duo. Je vsezvizir, da sem dvega vsezvizir in počakal svačov. Veselim vsezvizirom... ...zahvala, da so vsezviziraj, da se več pravim všezvizirom všezvizirom vsezvizirom vsezvizirom vsezvizirom vsezvizirom v Italy. Vsezviziraj, da so vsezvizirom. We strongly believe here at the Polytechnico that open education is a very important key driver of quality and innovation. It fosters sharing, exchanging, peer reviewing and peer learning both for students and for teachers. And sharing and collaborating are great boosters for the growth of the quality of educational contents and also innovation input in practice. The title of this conference, Open Education for an Open Future, remarks how the responsibility of education and particularly higher education, the one that we do here in the universities, is not focused on today but on tomorrow and we need to keep a perspective view, focus on the future for the future of youngsters and the future of local and national communities, the future of our global community. To be open is the only chance that we have to make knowledge development and knowledge spreading sustainable and effective. Nowadays we need these more than anything else both in the research and also in education. In this perspective it is fundamental that educational institutions play their role along with national and international institutions and bodies. This is why with great pleasure I wish all of you a good job and a great success with this conference, with open education and with its contributions for the future of our young people and all of us. Thank you very much again and enjoy the conference. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Milano. I'm Paul Stacey, the Executive Director of the Open Education Consortium and it's really our delight to be co-hosting with Polytechnico de Milano this event, which is a global convening of open educators from around the world. As you've seen on the slides projected on the big screen, this event really is a huge team effort involving a lot of people and I wanted to put up on the screen the faces of the people that are involved in preparing and running an event like this and just give a shout out and some thanks to everyone from the conference chairs, to the program chair, our amazing program chair. The team here at Polytechnico de Milano has been just fantastic to work with and they've been really gracious and generous with working with us and also my whole team, the Open Education Consortia staff are here and they too are just hugely devoted to this event and have put in countless hours of effort in supporting it. And I also think that you should note that there are peer reviewers. We have an open journal publisher and an editor who's involved. There are sponsors and for the first year we tried raising some funds from donors and so thank you all of you who have donated funds and as you probably have seen on the slide about that, your donations have helped us support 14 other people coming to this event. And of course all of you who are willingly sharing and presenting your work with colleagues from around the world. I actually am pleased this year at the diversity of sessions. We have people presenting from over 40 different countries. I'm also thrilled this year at the more interactive format for this event so you'll find that this event is not just plenary sessions like this and presentations but we have action labs and world cafes happening. I'm also really thrilled that the conference is taking place on a campus in the middle of students going to class so you'll see students intermixing with us as we go about this event and I think that's really helpful for us to keep our focus on who open education is ultimately for and I'm especially pleased that we've been able to actually involve so many students. We have some students coming up as part of the first keynote so thank you very much and there are other students that some of you have brought with you as buddies because we enabled to kind of bring a student process as part of the registration for this event. So fantastic to have so many students involved. I also want to mention that we're experimenting a little bit with space at this event, too. So some of the activities like world cafes and action labs are going to take place actually in big open corridors. So we're really trying to encourage some experimentation, some dialogue and some co-construction of the future of open education. Chrissy is going to talk about the program for today but I just want to highlight a couple of things. One is at the end of today there is a session on the award winners. As you probably all know, the Open Education Consortia gives out awards every year for people who are doing exceptional work in open education and many of the award winners are actually here and so I really want to invite you to come and acknowledge their amazing work and all of the ones that are here are also giving lightning talks. So I encourage you to check those out. And then following that there will be an opening reception at La Triennelle. So please come to that. And then just over the next three days I hope that you'll join me in making this an event where we have kind of open hearts and open minds that come together for creating open education for an open future and have fun and be kind. Bonjour. Welcome from me too. We live in very challenging times and I don't think that's just politically but with challenges come opportunities and I think the open education community is embracing these opportunities and that's why we are here. Our conference theme is open education for an open future. Thank you for embracing it all. For being here, sharing your work so openly with everybody, with the wider community. As you can see on the slide we have received many, many contributions and have 144 sessions with a variety of formats as Paul already mentioned. We would like to thank all the people who have been involved with reviewing and organizing everything here at Polimi as well, the Open Education Conference and I wouldn't be here if I didn't have Paul as kind invitations. So we'll have a range of formats as Paul already mentioned and please remember during lunchtime there are poster presentations happening today, tomorrow and on Thursday and also during lunch there is an opportunity to meet the penguin. This is the Gojcien penguin and we have Rob Faro-Rob is in the room. This is a wonderful community, a very supportive global community for doctoral students in open education. So if you would like to find out more or one of the PhD students at the moment or alumni, please come and join us. You will see the penguin and Rob and I will be around as well because I'm one of the alumni. So we would also like to thank all the chairs and we had 24 plus 3 chairs who volunteered and there's a warning that we, in the Action Labs today, don't actually have any chairs but we hope you will manage, will you? Yes? Where's Igor? He's not here. Are there he is? Yes, you worried Igor but I'm sure we will be okay. Just keep to the time. We have a full program today and throughout the key notes you have seen already and today's program is with Dr. Brigida Blasi. We'll start in a bit from the National Agency for Evaluation of the University and Research Systems. We'll have our very own Paula here with her lovely students talking about their work and their stories in open education which is wonderful. We have loads of presentations and lightning talks in Action Labs like we said and when we were actually starting to put some first ideas together for the program we wanted to be a bit radical and get rid of presentations altogether but we didn't do that in the end but it's good to see that we have a range of talks and contributions. So grazie mille to all of you for sharing your work with wider community for being here, for traveling to Milan and being with us all. Thank you to all the reviewers the Open Education Consortium for giving us this opportunity for all the session chairs the sponsors of course the team at Prolimi all the students and Paula like I said I wouldn't be here without her. She actually refused to dance when we were in South Africa and now here I am when she asked me Are you going to chair that conference? I said actually yes. So I'm just going to finish with something I read very recently and that's for the book about picture books. You might think what has that to do with open education but the inspiration often comes from very diverse places. Wonder happens automatically when you try something new. Visit a just opened museum Walk through an unfamiliar neighborhood Try a foreign food Be open to everything around you Enjoy the conference Susana Sankaskani is going to introduce our keynote Thank you So hi everybody Please take just a second for consider yourself very, very lucky You have done it good because this is the first sunny day we had in the last month so we have a sunny day for the beginning of this conference is a great thing for us. Very well So first thank you thank you very much to all the board of directors of open education consortium and Kristina Ranzi we have learned a lot by interacting with you in organizing this conference and we are very, very, very happy to host it for the first time in Italy I am the managing director of MATEED that's the teaching learning task force of Politecnico di Milano so it's a great opportunity for us to know all of you and to have good opportunities for share and discuss So I have the honor to introduce our first keynote Why we have invited Dr. Brigida Blasi as a first keynote because open education is a very strategic aspect not just for education itself but in general for the impact of our university to our societies We strongly believe that open education is a key strategy for foster the integration between universities and our social and economics context That's why we have invited Dr. Brigida Blasi that's in charge about the evaluation of the third mission the so-called third mission you know the first mission is education the second mission is research the third mission is the relationship with the global society of the university And as you know the institutions that are in charge of evaluating the educational system and universities in particular have the great power and also the great responsibility to orient the policies and the actions of universities so they are a very relevant actor I am very happy to leave the floor to Brigida Blasi Please