 Good afternoon, everyone. Unlike Doug, I have a little bit of a different perspective on showing what's coming next. After the last couple of years of living in the U.S., I usually don't want to see what's coming next. So we'll have the slides right here, and then we'll make them available in a moment. So let me call them up here. Fantastic. Well, thanks so much, Doug, for the introduction. My name is Bob McDonald. I am the project manager for the Moodle Educator Certification Program. As you can tell, I'm from the United States, and it's just really been a really wonderful stay here so far. As we go through today's presentation, I want to introduce some of the key members of the Moodle Education team who have been really influential in helping us get this Moodle Educator Certification Program across the starting line. We're not yet to the finish line. We're just very much at the starting line. So there are five very special people, and a whole host of other people who've been very supportive within Moodle HQ, within the Moodle Partner Community, and within the Moodle Community itself who have given us a lot of feedback, insight, and wisdom as we're building up this Moodle Educator Certification Program. And we'll go into the details of what that is. Certainly a couple of years ago, Martin brought to the team's attention the certification framework, which we've built around the whole program, as well as the vision of aligning a teaching and learning program that supports and impacts teaching practices on a global basis. I don't have my SDG Sustainable Development Goals in the slide right now, but we will get into the framework and how the MEC program actually supports and is enriched by some international competency standards as well as curriculum frameworks. Mary's been essential in helping us build out the modules and bringing that institutional knowledge of Moodle that would take me an hour to figure out or just a 10-second chat to Mary. It's like, no, you need to do that. So that's been fantastic. Grie, who's joined us as the Chief Product Officer is providing strategic direction and aligning all these projects and products that we're putting out there and making sure that MEC has a great fit. And I have to give a lot of appreciation to Solange LaLonde, who's our Senior Manager in Curriculum and Learning. She's the one who's created the frameworks, the curricular frameworks and alignments to make sure that everything we do in the MEC program is aligned to her curricular standard as well as positioning the program for an accreditation framework going forward. So she's been absolutely brilliant in what she's been able to accomplish with that. And I just got to work with some really fantastic people and present the work that everybody else has been contributing. So somehow I followed Doug's template slide, so we're going to go through three elements. First, what is the Moodle Educator Certification Program? For those of you who are in my workshop, is anybody here who was in the workshop yesterday? Fantastic. Actually, you could probably do the presentation after the six-hour workshop yesterday. So thank you so much for the enthusiasm and the commitment that we saw yesterday in the workshop. And then we're going to talk about a little bit what's unique about the MEC program and then how one gets started with that. So at its core, the Moodle Educator Certification Program is a competency-based teaching and learning program. So it's about teaching and learning, not necessarily about tools. It's about the impact that instructors can have on their students and how to transfer that knowledge to the environments in which instructors are teaching their workplaces, their schools, their higher education institutions. So the MEC program, the curriculum, is digital competencies, educationally focused digital competencies. What do instructors need to know, what skill sets do they need to know to empower their learners to be successful in an increasingly interconnected online world? So the digital competency focus, the curriculum we've put together, has been researched extensively by Digcomp EDU and other international frameworks, which I'll talk about a little bit later. But we want to present content that is relevant and that extends and expands the efficacy of how somebody uses the Moodle platform. Like Martin said in his keynote address, that we have an amazing platform that Martin brought to life and sometimes those using it may need a little bit of help to fully realize the educational impact that it can do for their learners. And that's what the MEC program does for aims to do. It hasn't done it yet. So who's the MEC for? What's the audience? Who can benefit from it? Well, we've identified three main groups. One is Moodlers, you all, and all the Moodlers across the world who want certification and recognition for their digital competence. So this is a program for those who are relatively new to Moodle. It's also a program for master teachers who use Moodle to get the recognition that people have been using for, been incorporating in their teaching and learning practices for years. They get, this is an opportunity to showcase and get validation and recognition for those elements. It's also for those who may be using Moodle and want to learn new ways of expanding Moodle. They know what they know in Moodle, but they don't know what they don't know in Moodle. So we provide a framework in which to expand usage cases and new ways to apply the Moodle platform and also those who are specifically looking for digital competency expertise and knowledge, the MEC program provides that as well. So what does the MEC program contain? What does one learn with the MEC program? So the MEC program contains 22 modules, each of them focused on one digital competency. So these 22 big ideas created into 22 modules or courses. And you'll see that there are four teaching approaches, four categories, design, guide, connect, and reflect. These are general teaching approaches that most educators do in their design, their creation of learning content. So we've specialized, grouped these modules into these categories. And you'll see the red box around six of them. These are the initial six foundational modules that will be part of our foundation-level certification program. The other 16 modules are coming to a Moodle partner new you in the near future as we roll them out. So what are the requirements for the MEC program? How do I get certified? Well, first thing you do is you've got to get some badges. And so there are badges that require one in a module, and one of the MEC modules, complete two design challenges. A design challenge is a participant's way of addressing, building a learning activity within Moodle that meets a learning objective. And so they provide two examples of that. What the MEC program doesn't do, though, is saying this is the way you have to build it. It depends on totally on the context of what you're trying to accomplish in your teaching and learning environment. It's not for us to inspire, or it is for us to inspire and not impose a solution for people. There's also a reflection component, which in an earlier presentation resonated with me. It's essential for this program. We want participants to think about how can I take what I learned in the MEC program and transfer it into my teaching and learning environment. Those transversal skills, what they learned in the module, hopefully can have an impact on their learners. And then lastly, a feedback activity which provides feedback to us to help from a continuous improvement methodology to make sure we make these modules better. And then we have three certificates. One for the foundation level, the teaching specialization, which is the design, guide, and connect and reflect elements. Those are about five or six modules, and then the comprehensive one, the 22 module one. So that's for the very dedicated Moodler who goes through all those. And we really hope that people eventually get through those. So what's it like for the participant? How's this going to work for? How's the MEC program going to work for participants? So the first thing, the MEC participant can choose and enroll in a MEC module offered by Moodler partner. And there's no sequential order to the modules. They're all designed to be standalone units. So someone could pick their own pathways in which modules they want to take. It's not a required module. So the first thing, person chooses. Next thing, they explore essential competencies. So we have in each module a section where we explain the learning outcome, the goal of the module, and also provide resources and examples of how one could do that in Moodle. So perhaps you've never seen it, or one has never seen a database module used in a particular way. We provide examples of how these modules could address that learning outcome. And then we also provide step-by-step instructions on how to do that. Mary, is that for the 15 or the 20? A minute total. Okay, we might go closer to the 20. So then the participant looks, he's a little bit of exploring, and then designs and builds their own learning activity in a sandbox provided in the MEC course to address the learning outcome. And all these courses are facilitated, so they'll get feedback and coaching from a Moodle facilitator who has great expertise and has gone through MEC certification training to provide coaching to help the participant, the MEC participant, from maybe a developing level to a competent or mastery level with their design challenges, their examples, and then certified. So after collecting a number of badges with the modules that they become certified. So I just want to show you really quickly what an MEC course module looks like. This is going to be the universal design module. So we're going to take a look at just the framework of what it looks like. So as every MEC module, as I mentioned before, is designed exactly the same structure. So by the time one gets to the 22nd module, they're probably pretty familiar with the structure of the MEC program or maybe even the second one. We want to do that to be as inviting and accessible no matter what your starting point, no matter what one's entry point is, we want to have that framework be accessible. So in the start section we have announcements, certainly for a facilitator, a book module about this module which contains module information, how to create your sandbox course which is automated and elements about the program. The getting started activity, I'll skip over the module guide for a second, the getting started activity welcomes learners who may be a little bit newer to the Moodle platform and gives them direct connections to various resources such as the glossary which includes all of Moodle HQ's latest tutorial videos, Mary's wonderful videos that she works with diligently and we will obviously keep that updated as new versions come out. And the module guide provides the rationale. Why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing? Why is this important? So we wanted to put that up upfront. And the next section is an explore section where we have a lesson where participants interact with the content. Why is universal design important? What are some of the theories behind it? It's not an exhaustive treatment of the topic but enough to get somebody familiar with why this learning outcome is important. And then we provide example, a book of how to build that example and we provide an example of how to do it in Moodle. Again, these aren't examples of how you must do it. It's an example of how you could do it. And within Moodle if we had an activity here or a challenge, I bet within this room we'd probably have 300 different versions of how one could do it in Moodle. And that's what we want to embrace and celebrate in the MEC program. And the next section is the design section where the participants can collaborate with one another and with their facilitators to understand how to build that particular module and then certainly submit the design challenging sample. And then lastly, the fourth section is that reflection section where one has to consider how to transfer that knowledge and provide feedback to Moodle on how that can go. So just really quickly, what's unique about the MEC program, we think it's unique because it is built upon three different leading research, leading research platforms or categories. One is the Digcomp EDU framework. Another is the relational model for teaching and learning, which SolangeLond has her thesis is about. And also we borrow heavily the IBE's curriculum development framework to build out the rationale for the program. And just really quickly, we did a quick survey of how the MEC program lines up against other certification programs in our industry, and we do provide a much deeper and more substantive approach to teaching and learning than perhaps some of the other programs. So lastly, how do I sign up? Yes. How about, you know, Bob, how can I get started tomorrow? So it's the MEC programs right now offered through Moodle partners who've been certified to offer the MEC program. So we have three here today at this moot. Ethink, Titus Learning and Innovation have all gone through the certification program and they were fabulous and so helpful yesterday in our workshop. Or you also can go to Moodle.com. If you want to submit some interest a little bit later, we'll put you in contact with the appropriate Moodle partner going forward. So in keeping with really simple email addresses, if you have any questions, Bob at Moodle.com is how everyone can get in touch with me or at Bob McD65 at my Twitter account. Thank you so much for your attention. We really appreciate your support, the community support as we develop this program. And I'll be happy to take questions after the session. So I want to clear the decks for the next presenter. Thank you so much. You're going to be stopping in on Scotland, your ancestral home at some point while you're over here, Bob? I just noticed your name. It's pretty close. Any other McDonald's here? Maybe tonight you can have a McDonald party somewhere. All right, so thanks guys. They're two of the most new, exciting things that we've got going on development-wise. And this is the third, if I can find the browser, which is over here. It is Firefox. That is good. And, yeah, so I got roped into doing this presentation. We have a longer one. It's 90 minutes, I believe, tomorrow.