 All right, back to the floor, it's yours. Thank you so much and thank you everyone for joining the session today, it's been a fantastic week and yeah I'm really grateful to everyone that's been involved in OE Global this year. So as Willem said my name's Beck Pitt, I'm based at the Open University in the UK and I'm going to be talking today about co-creation at the distance, remixing the Creative Commons certificate for Myanmar. So what am I going to be talking about? First of all I wanted to give you a bit of an introduction to the Tide project and what we're trying to achieve. You may if you were around the conference earlier in the week of course Andy Lane and Bobo and the Wins presentation, colonising the curriculum which had loads of just fantastic kind of overview of the project and what we're trying to do and some of the issues kind of around that. I'm also going to talk a little bit about openness in Tide before I go on and talk about what we're actually doing for in terms of developing a Creative Commons course from the CC certificate for the Myanmar context and then finally I'll kind of go on and talk about where next really and next steps because as Willem has become clear this is very much a kind of ongoing process and something that we're currently still working on. So let's start off by project aims. So Tide stands for transformation by innovation in distance education. We're a UK aid funded project and we're part of the Sphere programme. So Sphere is strategic partnerships for higher education, innovation and reform and the project began in February 2018 with around three and a half four year long projects so we're currently due to finish in September 2021. We're very much focused on sustainable development goals particularly SDG4 around quality education and we also have a very specific focus around environmental science. This is a new discipline, an emerging discipline in Myanmar and of course Myanmar is very much a country which is affected by climate change. It's in the top three countries which are most vulnerable countries in terms of climate change. So the aim of the project which involves ourselves the open university but also universities in Manchester, universities of Oxford, Irrawaddy Policy Exchange in Yangon and then also Myanmar partners that's Yadavon, Yangon University of Distance Education, Yuud and Yangon will kind of bring obviously different strengths to the project but the overall aim of the project is to increase the quality of distance education and result in more employable graduates and we're working with around 40 universities and colleges across Myanmar in order to achieve this aim. As Andy mentioned in the presentation on Monday, distance education is really very much a large part of HE in Myanmar. It's about 60% and the activities of the project and the focus on distance learning will hopefully benefit more than half a million students. Just very briefly I wanted to give you the overview of the project just to show you where this work really fits in with what we're trying to do overall. So we have kind of three strands to project activity. One of them is kind of building staff capacity you can see on the green on the left hand side of the side. The second around enhancing programs to do with media production, student capabilities and so on and then finally also around strengthening distance education HE systems so focus around digital strategy and change management. So there's lots of different activity happening across the project and this is only what I'm talking about today is only a very small part of what's happening on Tide and the kind of remixing of the Creative Common Certificate which sits actually as part of our master training program which is kind of four courses that we're offering to Tide universities, people that people that are involved in the project kind of sits under the first strand around building capacity and building on the work that we've already done with colleagues in Myanmar. So when we talk about openness in Tide what do we mean and this is really just to give you a little bit of background and show you how central kind of open education and OER is to the project. We're very much, it's very much about kind of sharing and listening and learning from each other. It's not about us kind of coming in and saying you have to kind of do things this particular way. It's very much about listening and trying to better understand the context which if you're in Andy's presentation earlier in the week, Myanmar is obviously quite a unique and very different context than the one, for example, where I'm based in the UK or other places. Obviously Myanmar has been quite isolated for a number of decades and the way that education has been run, a very centralized approach that's gradually changing but obviously you know it's very different to the context that we're perhaps usually used to working in. So it's very much about listening and learning from our colleagues in Myanmar. We have a kind of aim in the project to produce around 400 hours worth of open educational resources as well so that's kind of built in as I'll show you in a minute to the project. We release all of our assets for the project on open licenses so that they can be reused and adapted and also used for people to cascade and share at their universities as well. So in Myanmar my HE, people talk in English as well so there's also that kind of angle to things. We're also working with private and public organizations within Myanmar as well to kind of as part of the project and some of the pilot activity that we're involved in and then there's also the co-creation aspect and I'll come on and talk a little bit about that in a moment. So just very briefly this slide I'm going to show you this slide really just to show you how central OER development and open education is to the project. This shows you is related to the capacity building element of the project and it shows basically a two-year cycle where pre-COVID we were working with a group of universities you can see on the left with 10 universities that we started working with in 2018 for a two-year period initially and that two-year program was based and structured around residential schools, kind of webinars, online courses between them both for academics and for ICT librarian and support staff and then you can see through the middle we have OER development so throughout the whole of this two-year kind of period as well as the kind of sessions around open licensing and kind of practical kind of things we're also kind of working with people and people are working with each other at their universities to develop OER. Okay so moving on to talk a bit more about the Creative Commons remix that that we're in the process of doing as part of the master training program. So besides this being part of what we're kind of offering to people, why would we want to remix it? I don't know how familiar folks are in the audience with the Creative Commons certificate but we obviously we wanted to kind of remix it for a number of different reasons the main one being of course context and fundamentally as well there is a big change in copyright law in Myanmar that is in the process of happening. So in May 2019 a new copyright law was enacted and this was replacing a copyright law that's over a hundred years old when that kind of came in during the British colonial period in 1914 obviously that's kind of very much out of date when you think of what's happened since then and in terms of it just not really being enforceable. So there's a new copyright law kind of working its way through the system and that has quite stiff penalties for people that violate the the law. There's a two-year transition period but obviously that has huge implications for HE and what's happening currently in higher education so we wanted to kind of include kind of information around that. There's also kind of obviously the opportunity to include Myanmar colleagues in co-creation of the course and I'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment. We also knew that people seemed to be very interested or quite interested in Creative Commons and the work that we've done previously with people and the kind of developing this course and offering it as a kind of one-stop shop kind of place for people to come and find out more seems kind of like a good way to consolidate what we've been doing as well as reflecting the kind of experience that we'd have of working with people running sessions around open licensing and Creative Commons as well. Obviously it's on an open license so I'm hoping you know if we move forward that people will obviously improve the course as well as the improvements we're going to make as well and then finally full disclosure but I did at the end of 2019 I also participated in the Creative Commons for Educators course so I was obviously familiar with the course material and so on. Okay so what did we do very briefly so far so the course currently is a six-part remix of the original Creative Commons course so if you're familiar with that I think it's five weeks if I remember correctly or five units and what we've kind of done is we've created a standalone version so I mentioned it's part of Master Training Programme that means it will be kind of run facilitated for around 25 of our participants but obviously we need standalone versions so that people can come and use the course subsequently so obviously there's quizzes and reflection points as part of that course. We've made it available obviously in Myanmar and English language versions and we're hosting it on Open and Create and essential to this is that we're hoping through the Master Training Programme and the activity within that we will develop the course further and I'll talk about that in a moment and also obviously we're making this available on a CC by license. Just very briefly to show you the course structure as I mentioned there's six kind of units or sections to the course very much we've kind of styled with copyright and this is just really partly for onboarding kind of reasons if you're familiar with the CC certificate you know you kind of join the program having at least some knowledge or understanding around CC this may not be true for people in the future so for this course so we've kind of started the onboarding around copyright instead and then kind of go on to introduce Creative Commons within that context. We've also included a lot more we've included some of the material we've developed as part of the project so things around finding and evaluating OER as well as remixing and a lot more kind of step by step and detailed kind of details around how to do particular things included in the course as part of this and that was participant feedback from the people we've been working with around kind of preferences for these step by step kind of guides to guides to activity and then finally we've kind of ended the course with kind of looking at ideas of the way in which people could practically take that forward and I'm hoping that will be something that we can improve on and critically reflect on as part of what we're going to do with the facilitated one of the course. Okay just very briefly I've kind of already covered this I think really but you know really the course is about you know the new Myanmar copyright law and the work with lawyers in Myanmar as well to better understand what that means as part of developing this you know the kind of role of CC and open licensed material and its benefits to universities and colleges and then also obviously your own kind of practice and supporting use of OER at your institution. So how did we develop the course? This is kind of an ongoing I mentioned we're kind of still working on this currently but we started working spring of this year and from the get go I wanted to kind of involve participants in that process so held a kind of call to let people know this is what we're thinking of doing you know do you think this is a good idea get some feedback around that kind of put the original material for the CC cert for librarians open for review obviously that was in English language so we didn't get I believe much feedback from that and really ideally we probably would have translated that all into Myanmar language which would have enabled more critique we're now doing that critique as part of this work so if we went slightly differently maybe then would have been ideal but as the course is still being developed we'll hopefully get a lot more feedback going forward but we did do a lot of work around seeing what people wanted included in this kind of course so we did a Facebook poll we did a review of the original material both by UK and Myanmar based project team members and other stakeholders so particularly thanks to Irina Kushner in Eiffel as well for working with us on this and then also we had a discussion with a small group of Myanmar participants to talk about their experiences with OER and Creative Commons and that also helped shape the course and some of these colleagues also worked with Brian Mather's visual thinkery to develop the picture so you can see some of these in the presentation as I move through that as well so we have got some custom images for the course and then finally as I've already mentioned we worked with lawyers in Myanmar around material and on copyright and reuse some of our own existing tied content so in terms of contextualization I've already mentioned translation and Myanmar examples that kind of onboarding as well is really I think important thinking beyond just the tied project and to have to you know how do we kind of I think one of the questions when you kind of start working with folks is how do you contextualize and present something like Creative Commons and OER to two people so that kind of onboarding is really crucial illustrations have already mentioned and also you know very much kind of having that dialogue with people around their preference for format and content I just want to pick up on the final two points really here around renewable assignments and critical engagement with the course so one of the things that I'm kind of working on at the moment is the kind of assessment piece really and kind of building assignments to kind of both support the cascading that people have said that they'll be doing so by participating in the master training program there's an expectation that they'll and people want to kind of go back and share that with colleagues so by producing kind of slides or other materials to share with people this company will hopefully support that as well as enabling and supporting people to develop OER I'm also hoping that from this will people will want to kind of share some of those things and that they will become part of a future iteration of the course so particularly around developing case studies about people's own practice as well and I'm hoping that we'll be able to include some of those with people obviously people are happy to as part of what we're doing and then finally really fundamentally this critical engagement with the course to improve it you know this is really important it's there's a lot more work to do and I'm hoping that we can continue to work with Myanmar colleagues to make the course even better than it is yeah currently so finally just to say about next steps really as you've gotten probably gathered by now this is very much an iterative kind of process we're kind of just really at the start of this we're about to kind of launch on Myanmar in English language versions in December which will be kind of be when we start the first facilitated run and you start wrapping up thanks the first facilitated run and then finally in kind of March time we'll be looking to reversion and update the course again then so thank you very much for your time and yeah any questions thank you very much we run out of time for questions so if you have any questions please post them in the connect platform I shared the link in the in the chat and I am certain that back will post your slides also on there so thank you very much back we can stop the recording