 Hello everyone. The Open University recruits the largest number of students in the UK and it makes extensive use of learning technologies. So you might expect that we might know something about learning and designing learning experiences for our students. For me, it's all about making the student journey more successful. That's why I'm so proud of the work we are doing in Learning Analytics and why we at the OU are so keen to share this work and facilitate shared learning across the sector. So if you're interested in how students learn and how learning analytics can play a role in that, then I'd like to invite you to a conference that we're running at the Open University on the 9th of October. The theme for this solar flare is research into practice. We have designed the day to maximise social learning. There'll be so many opportunities to learn about how learning analytics are being put into practice in both formal and informal learning environments. For instance, we'll share with you our research at the Open University where we have developed and put into practice a policy for the ethical use of student data. Also, we'll share our work with a tool we use called OU Analyze that provides an analytical framework for learning interventions. These are just two of the topics that we're going to cover. We hope you'll be able to come. It'll be a very rewarding day. It's being held on the 9th of October. It's an opportunity to share with your colleagues and learn from each other. Check out our website for more details.