 My name is Rajiv Jangiani. I serve as the Associate Vice Provost for Open Education at Quantlin Polytechnic University. KPU for short is a public post-secondary institution in British Columbia and Canada and over there my job is to really lead to shepherd the institution's open education and open recognition initiatives. So I'm talking about things like the creation, adaptation, adoption of open educational resources, the embrace of open pedagogies, but also micro-credentialing prior learning and how we can really widen equitable access to education by really drawing on all of those. So here of course I'm very interested in all of the above. We're going to have a discussion about how open educational resources for example can be harnessed to shrink, to reduce the global skills gap. Certainly we'll be talking about open recognition in terms of micro-credentialing and recognizing prior learning, but I think really interested in sharing, in learning from what other people are doing in different pockets of the world to see how we can really work together. In many ways I feel this is a space where even though different institutions are often competitive in their own contexts, within open recognition and open education in particular, I think there's an opportunity to go much further if we collaborate. So that's really what I'm here for. So I think beyond basic discussions about how we can harness open educational resources, open pedagogies, and open recognition systems, I'm hoping that we can also have a bit of a critical discussion. So for example instead of just talking about learning analytics, I'm hoping we can talk about data privacy. Instead of just talking about access, I'm hoping we can also talk about accessibility and instead of assuming that great OER can be used and reused worldwide, we can maybe think more deeply about who is perhaps privileged enough to create the OER that gets used elsewhere. So for example we know that you can't just create an astronomy open textbook in North America and assume, hey we've solved the problem, here's your textbook. In South Africa the sky looks a bit different in the Southern Hemisphere or the epistemologies that are baked within the materials that we produce. So I'm hoping that we can go beyond basic discussions about addressing global skills gap to think more critically about the strategies about the mechanisms that we're going to draw on.