 Hello? Hello? Yeah? Okay. Okay. Right, we're going to start Augusta. Grab your tea. Come on down. Yeah, get them in. Are you nervous? Okay, come on in. That's our still moving in. Get your plates. We're going to start in one minute. Yeah, we're actually a minute late. Yeah, it's not. Do we have a defibrillator please? Ladies and gentlemen, our last blood sport of the day. Oh, sorry, presentations. Welcome to Augusta at OER 24. We have five more big presenters today. And when we talk about what does open mean, being open is prepared to put yourself on the stage with Tom Farley and the crowd doing Augusta. That's what open means. So you can tweet that. So we're going to start off our first presentation. When life brings you artificial intelligence, torn to feminism by the inimitable Francis Bell. I mean, we've had two amazing women here this Saturday. I'm kicking off Augusta. We are another amazing woman. So she's not as nervous as she thought she would be, which is good. I don't know whether she thought that would call you favor, but sadly, are we ready? Are you feeling a bit tired? Are you feeling energetic? Energetic. Now I'm watching particularly anybody who's not sitting in the main crew. You're not getting the hands up. I'll be watching out for this. I want participation. Hands up, everybody. Shake them out. Shake them out. You haven't been there? You're only half doing it. A hay, a dough, a tree, a car, a kooig, Augusta. No, we'll have to do that again. Only because it's Francis. If it was anybody else, they could sink or swim because I am afraid of this woman. No, I'm just afraid of you. We'll have to do something special now. Forget about that time. That doesn't work. That's only for the fact that's lolling you into a false sense of security. That's 10 minutes. It's 10 minutes. Doesn't work. You're such a professional. You'll be fine. A hay, a dough, a tree, a car, a kooig, Augusta. When life brings you artificial intelligence, turn to feminism. This is a solution-free zone. On a Masters in the late 1980s, I studied AI and did a final project that built a classifier system, a rule-based system that used genetic algorithms to generate rule sets that learned from trials in use. In contrast, some expert systems offered an explanatory interface that could justify their line of reasoning and or enable humans to learn from them. That interface was absent from genetic algorithms and Wikipedia tells us from other algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions. Sounds familiar. In the 1980s, as computing power and storage became cheaper, information systems increasingly moved from batch data processing to include relational databases that were available on demand. Shoshana Zuboff identified the concept of informating where databases translate activities, events and objects into data with mixed outcomes. In teaching, I used the example of the GP Harold Shipman who changed patient's records after fatally injecting them with insulin unaware that his edits were time and date stamped. This data provided his trial with supportive evidence of his malign actions away from the database. This was a more positive outcome of informating than many we observe in today's big tech. Currently, systems as such as chat GPT based on large language models are attracting attention and usually presented as AI for reasons of hype. This was bias can be baked into databases, e.g. image recognition databases. The references document is linked on the last slide. I suggest you start with Helen Beetham's substack and the feminist website, notmy.ai. These models extract data from various sources, not necessarily with informed consent. A new book by Maas and Cauldry, Data Grab, the new colonialism of big tech and how to find back, is summarized as, your life online is their product. Their reference to fighting back supports the practice of hope rather than the shrugging of shoulders. What is feminism to offer? In the editorial for the feminist special issue of the MLT journal that some of us worked on, we outlined some work by feminists over the last 30 years in education technology that is now mainstream. It was said but not always listened to many years ago. Feminists persist in engaging in critical discourse on issues such as digital surveillance, AI, and the use of metrics and data to manage academic work. Read the work of authors in this special issue and be encouraged for the future. Another example of feminist practice that came about through the FEMED tech network was the FEMED Tech Quilt of Care and Justice project launched in November 2019 and resulting in four material quilts and the digital quilts, more or less in time for the online experience that rapidly replaced the cancelled OER20. The availability of FEMED tech open space and involvement in the quilt project, opportunities for comfort, solidarity and for expressing concerns and sometimes rage at a very difficult time. Some of us explored FEMED Tech Quilt as a post-human assemblage in a chapter in the wonderful HE for Good book. Rosie Bray Dottie's post-human feminism is to me a promising avenue to explore. I will leave you with the last sentence of that chapter. Feminists create, feminists resist and feminist celebrate difference. If you'd like to share a few words with or without your name as a response to this gasta, please leave them in the box at the front and now I'm going to read the paragraph that I missed. Okay. The image juxtaposes digital data with an image of my crafted response to the crafted response to the prompt at an OER23 workshop led by Claire Thompson. It represents my time consuming and flawed practice of managing cookies. The green snake is my data trying to hide in the pocket, keeping away from the fragile repair worn by the bells. I don't think Tom's going to be as kind to me. Hash but fair. Now, so one of my colleagues here from MTU who has helped make this an absolutely amazing experience for the last two days so well done to Ruth and to Jeremiah. That's the end of maybe a nicer. Right. I was going to up it a bit so I mean normally get you up and down a bit later but we'll actually get people there because I can see some people falling asleep. So we're going to go up on the hang down on the door. Are you ready? That's pathetic. That's pathetic. That's pathetic. I know it's a big word for you, Lordy. Rubbish. Are we ready? I hate a doe, a tree, a car, a coig, Gosta. Thank you for the introduction. My name's Ruth Fox from MTU going straight in. Urban HL argue that all one of the barriers faced by faculty to create OER stems from a perceived lack of time to devote to these activities. While you may agree or disagree with that statement, I'd like you to take some time to close your eyes and open your ears for less than a minute because it's been hectic. You've been up and down. So take a minute to relax. And yes, I'm serious. Please close your eyes now and listen. Nature gives. Take just a moment to reflect on the joy of giving. Create a talisman or a simple piece of art using natural materials and leave it for someone else to find to brighten up their day. It could be something really simple like a painted or decorated stone, a leaf with a drawing, a mandala, a written message in the sand or on a natural object, a weaving of twigs or grass or daisies. Think about how it will make this person feel when they find your gift. My offering well selfless offers priceless gifts to others. You may open your eyes now. The sound clip was created as a series of guided meditations linked to an openly licensed wellness journal and is hosted on SoundCloud. These sound files have been created for students to use as part of wellness journal. However, it can just as easily be used by a men's development network in Ireland, a women's shelter in South Africa, in schools in America, in corporate wellness programs and you on your commute home. The track is less than a minute long but how did it make you feel? An MTU colleague, Sinead Horohan, inspired me in a recent presentation when she mentioned she reuses this eight-year-old creative commons licensing explainer video. I'm loosely referencing in her saying it's a good resource so I create a new one. She refers to it over and over again. Isn't the whole purpose of OER the ability to retain, reuse, revise, remix and redistribute content for educational purposes? By going back and reusing OER it frees faculty staff up to produce other OER which in turn will help other academics. Perhaps if there were more shareable content out there we would focus more on feedback for our students and rethink how we assess their work. Recently the Department of Technology Enhanced Learning here at MTU supported academics in creating reusable learning resources and I think I've said that no. As part of a Settle Funded Initiative something that stood out to me was the scale and complexity of some of the proposals submitted and I can see why some academics may feel they don't have the capacity to create open education resources. That said I was also inspired by the range of ideas and I've lost myself and type of material that were produced by project teams for this initiative. Some of these teaching resources are made up of several smaller artifacts and I consider them reusable too outside of each of these projects. So in a past life I worked in an advertising agency as a graphic designer. It frustrated me that we spent hours working on ad campaigns. They went out into the world and after the campaign was over they became obsolete. Any ideas I could never reuse and take with me if I moved to another agency. Then I moved to academia and I felt a sense of relief that as an instructional designer any graphic design pieces I create along the way have a life beyond selling a product. The lecturers I co-design with have the autonomy to give our work a creative commons license and then it's out there for me or anyone else to use and not just another printed flyer occupying some landfill or slowly dying on a hard drive some way. Open education resources can be so many things. Sound files, short videos, templates like the Alex canvas are regularly used as an instructional designer. It could be an illustration, a 3D model of the body. It could be a textbook that can help students save money in the long run and help relieve the financial burden. Big small will take them all. Consider this a call to action. On your trip home from OER spend 30 minutes reflecting on what you can gift to the OER community. Is this something you can create in 30 minutes or when last have you looked at the body of work you have as a teacher or lecturer. Is there potential for you to apply a creative commons license to some of your work? Are you perhaps a minute away from retirement like Martin Weller and your teaching content will be lost the day you retire? Maybe this could be your OER gift for others to find out there. A big bright beautiful world of open education resources. Let's grow the global community of OER resources. Mind the microphones. I've been warned. I'm not allowed sharp or pointy objects. Microphones are anything else. Another character or character. Another colleague here, Jeremiah Splatt. I got you up and down, so I won't ask you to move up and down. We'll start off on the left, which is the Irish words clay, jazz, but I won't ask you to do that. Just do the count. We're going to start off on the left. Are we ready? I want to hear gusto. Ready? I'm just here for the sticker really, but I haven't seen the sticker today, so I'm worried I might not get one. In the research space in higher education, a number of challenges exist around the dissemination of new knowledge. I'm going to highlight three of those and then hopefully highlight how podcasting can address them. One of the fundamental long-standing issues plaguing academia, variously addressed by many people over the last two days, is the relationship between higher education institutions and commercial academic publishers, who without cost receive writing from academics, which is typically funded by the taxpayer. Then following that free labor, the publisher then sells back this research to university libraries at a substantial profit. This new knowledge typically ends up behind paywalls, which is inaccessible to the very individuals who supported it and indeed funded that very research. This for-profit commercialization of knowledge, a long-standing issue which the open access movement has long worked to address, not only restricts access, but also perpetuates wider society's barrier to accessing new scholarship. The big academic publishers are basically printing money, which is kind of the problem. The second part of this problem is that beyond the paywall, there are additional baked-in problems, which is that academic writing and research typically operates through highly jargonized and opaque language, which is legible only to the initiated. The barrier then that I refer to in my title are those operating within the HE and research landscape in society at large are these. There's often a divide in this in terms of how we communicate our work with wider society. The third problem, and I think this one is slightly more complex, is just a signpost. The third issue here, which adds to the complexity of all this, are the challenges faced by early career researchers, where there are issues of prestige around research outputs and impact. Often further their career early career researchers typically have to ensure that their best work is still published via highly indexed journals in terms of their early career researchers, H-index. They need to make sure that their work is published in highly indexed journals. It's really important, obviously, to draw in the work of others in your field. Here's a quote from Tom Farley on the sesh last night, which all jokes aside is actually a very important one. You were talking about when looking at job applications in higher education, that they all ask for high citation and high impact and very few of them foreground or indeed value the ethics of open. So then prestige is then the currency of our realm and open has not yet become the marker of prestige. Open isn't an option for many, rather the luxury of those working in the space like us or senior, more tenured academics. So my solution then, or what I'm arguing, is that podcasting offers a solution to these three problems. So firstly, sharing and making accessible research open to the wider public on the open web. Secondly, talking about complex ideas in simple conversational terms make topics more accessible to a non-specialist audience. And lastly for those early career researchers who still feel the need to publish in more closed environments for their careers, it's a way to openly share their work with a wide audience. So just a few examples, maybe examples of success perhaps. Just kind of illustrate this. So here, lots of us here are of course podcasting. So here's an example of some of our keynotes podcasting. This is another one that popped up in my feed with these handsome gentlemen here. I think this is a really great example because Ken's colleague here is a big advocate for podcasting. And I think that's great that in our institutions, we should engage with people that are podcasting and use them as kind of opportunities to share our work. So that's really good as well. Martin Weller today was talking about kind of extending the life of his book and kind of keeping it alive through conversations about the various chapters. Again, another great example of how we can use podcasting. And then a shameless plug myself. This is my own podcast, which is a musicology podcast. And again, for myself, this is a great opportunity to network and have conversations with people in my area that I'm interested in. So this is great. Another great example is the work of Michaela Benson, an English British sociologist who uses podcasting both for her research and also a way to communicate that research back to society at large, which is excellent. I'm under pressure here. But a really big part of this, I think, is kind of merging that scholarship with entertainment. And an excellent example of this is the work of Dr. Sharon Lambert, a psychologist has done with Blind Boy, who's a podcaster in Ireland, has a really big audience. And that's kind of making important things and do some podcasting. If there isn't one, make one. It's a lot of entertainment today. And actually, Jeremiah, don't forget, you're making people happy. They don't want to see. The worst gas is when everybody finishes on time. So that's no pressure, Aiman. We sat her off on the left. We're going to go on the right this time. Shake them out. Ahayne. Do you know what? I'm not going to do the count. You can count them in as well and encourage them. And if you think we'll keep the... Do you know what? I'm going to say something that used to be said to me as a kid, you know, with the teacher, I can stay here all night. I can stay here. That's Thomas flagging up here. He's dying. Come on. Ready? Ahayne. And Doe. And Tree. And Carr. And Cooley. Gustav. Hello, beautiful people of OER24. Beautiful on the outside and beautiful on the inside too. You are a good and kind and lovable person. Okay. I don't know if you've heard of Bon Jovi and what he had to say about the current state of the pedagogical landscape. He said that your love is like bad. She is what I need. Through this analogy between dysfunctional and codependent human relationships and poor pedagogical practices, it's because he knew there is a danger that we can entropomorphize workplaces and expect them to meet her emotional needs. The university cannot love you. Neither can your practices. Okay. And neither can the tools of your trade. All right. Chachi BT. He's never going to love you. Okay. A fool with a tool is still a fool. And you don't end up looking, you don't end up looking like a complete tool holding a foolish tool. So who can love you? Humans can love each other. Yeah, exactly. All right. That's true. So I said to my students, my wonderful students at Dublin City University, I said, students, I love you. And they said, Amen. You're being a bit weird. I said, you didn't let me finish. What I was going to say was I would love to get your help in this class to look at some multiple choice questions, because I do love MCQs. I love working on multiple choice questions. Back in 2018, myself and some researchers, we looked at 214 MCQs in 18 different MOOCs, massive open online courses. And we used a framework by Tarrant and Wear to look at the validity and the reliability of these MCQs. Because there is a lot of research out there to psychometric research and testing research that shows that if you create an MCQ badly, you'll get inconsistent results. And we used this framework to look at 18 item writing flaws, none of the above, all of the above, negatively worded stem, implausible distractors, ambiguous information in the question, and so on. 18 different things. Around 50% of MOOCs had flawed MCQs. So we're just creating pedagogies, bad pedagogies, and scaling them. So I said to my students, let's ask Chachi BT to create some MCQs, and see if we replicate this study in class. And we did that, and we had a lot of fun. The students worked in teams. This is some of the slides they created. We create a lot of memes in our class, and they were looking at MCQs and analyzing them. And they did some really, really good and fun work. And it was one of the most enjoyable class I had this year. We really had some great fun. It was really good. So the future is not what it used to be, all right? Because there's guardrails to protect us from harms and biases and all this. But there's no guardrails that are going to protect us from just shoddy education resources that this stuff is going to generate. So the future is going to be very mundane. We'll be working to clean up a lot of mess that AI generates. And we need to be careful not to install guardrails in the human heart. The border patrols others have imposed on us. And the monitoring systems you may have installed yourself as you were Benjamin put it very well. So I hope you remember what I said a few minutes ago. Did you not learn anything from this talk? Chat to BT, kind of love you, okay? So instead you can join a nonviolent and loving police force dedicated to finding, arresting, but not incarcerating, but reforming and rehabilitating bad pedagogies. Thank you. 26 seconds to spare. That was impressive. Last, but certainly not least. Alan's thinking what the hell do I have to do to follow that? But I have no doubt that Alan will, I think he'll certainly do something. Now we just, I wanted to keep it for the last gasta of the last wherever the sessions. So we just do one clap, but we'll go back now and we'll do the pro proper double clap. So at least, hey, that's okay. We all got that at the hands of now one ghost. Oh, this is your last gasta for the year. Are we ready? Go. Hey, dough, pray, car, carry, got that. Thank you, Corey. Before the poetry commences, Internet Tone News sets the stage with an abbreviated opinionated history. Present digital capabilities are founded on network diagrams made by wizards who stayed up late. Cold war mindsetting, a packet switching system distributed, decentralized, communal, unbreakable. 35 years ago, it enabled a vague but exciting proposal to birth the web bubbles, Tim Berners-Lee's, three C's, collaboration, fostering compassion, and generating curiosity, creativity, and of all things, a silly, avian themed text box to literally broadcast what you had for lunch. For educators especially, but society in general. Was this one Internet town hall? Hashtaging revolutions. The hashtag is the course, our PD network. It was the best of times. But was that an illusion? Came ads, algorithms, influencers, fraud, abuse, crypto scams, right for plucking as a billionaire's ego toy, plundering the API, deep-sixing the precious Twitter tags created by Martin Hoxie. This is a fine dumpster fire, isn't it? A social media diaspora. There are now sentient content-consuming machines roaming wild. Power and influence is concentrated, rather than distributed. Welcome to the Enshito scene. Yet, at its worst, all of this is riding on that original diagram concept, a distributed network. So where the hell do we go? To go, is there? And now, with some license. There's no magic one place. No town hall. I summon you to seek that DNA of the Internet itself. A schematic with no center, no control, whose propellant is cooperation. What is, where is, the Fediverse? It's here now. I feel it. It's distributed, decentralized, communal, shared, not owned, co-ops, not biz-ops, where accessibility is not a sideshow, where the means of communication is universal. With RSS, with an API, no one will close or put behind a paywall. It's a network of independent networks. It's like those navigation maps of old, which transmit to each other by activity pub. One protocol, one protocol to share them all. And not just for status posts, but for inter-sharing photos, videos, links, music, podcasts, book reviews, writing, it's mastodon, but more. It's pixel-fed, peer-tube, lemmy, funk whale, castapod, bookworm, write freely. Your WordPress, it becomes part of this activity hub. And it's all able to communicate with each other. But it's complicated. It's confusing. So is love. So is poetry. So is learning. That's opportunity. So if my name has two at signs in it, it means I'm not beholden to an owned place. I am free to move. The places you have set up camp, who owns, what owns them, operates them, moderates, cares, tends to its community. What are their interests? What is the trajectory of their maps? So assert your options. Do not be owned, managed, tangled, influenced, sucked into the easy offers slid between ads to you. Platforms do not define us. We supersede them. The Catherine Cronins, the Martin Wellers, the Francis Bells. We sense their humanness, their presence, wherever we see them. We are more. So I'm suggesting, no, I'm calling. I'm appealing to your appreciation for that core diagram characteristic of the original Internet. Silently, always, a life-giving pulse, living beneath. Beware of egotistical billionaires, extractors, faceless entities, datifying your apps. Here is your detour. Come on, it's time to escape the algorithm. Do not settle. Do not line up just where it's easy. Do not become a thread. Do not settle. Do not become a commodity. Stand up. Come on, stand up. When they want to count you down. When they want to put you off stage three. Get federated. Get federated. Done. Right on cue. Jim Groom, Jim Who. Can the gust of tears please come up and get their badges please? This is what, this is what Gusta is all about. Actually, it's about having the crack. It's about love. We've heard that word also. Come on up here. You well deserve this. As I said, as I said, anybody, anybody can be a presenter. It takes real openness to be a gust of tear. Bear mats, not coasters. Crossing the stage. Yeah, it's like it's sort of mini graduation. I've got a bizarre graduation. Who needs boring speeches when you can finish off a conference like that? I'm looking for growth. I found it. Make your way on up here. Well, I hope Jim Groom was watching that live because he's just lost his slot for next year. He's going to have to do an audition to get a place back at Gusta. Anyway. Okay, let's bring things to a close. I have a few notes here. We'll do a two-hander on it. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well, I will say having worked so long to prepare for the conference, it's almost a surprise to find that it's over now at this stage, you know. I must say, and really I don't have any grand closing remarks or anything like that. I think we just wanted to make sure that we're tanking all of the people who are responsible for the event really. So in a kind of chronological order, I wanted to thank Maren Diepwell for encouraging us to submit a bid to host the conference in the first place. I want to thank my co-chair for insisting that we follow Maren's advice in putting in that bid. Thanks to Alt who while navigating their own processes of change helped us to navigate through the various different stages of preparation for the conference to the organizing committee who gave so freely of their time to Donna and Laurie who just left the building. For their early video they're encouraging people to submit for the conference that was really great and hit the tone really well. To Shane for over there for so many things, for the digital marketing and later for organizing and managing the AV side of things. That's definitely no small task. To Ty Glean who's just over there, our operations manager. Ty Glean made us look good. He did. And that was no small task. I definitely kept the trains running on time and kept me running on time, kept us running on time. To the sponsors, to the speakers, to the session chairs, to the keynotes, to the staff here in the MTU arena who are taking up carpet as we speak. And that's not a euphemism or anything. To volunteers from the end shooter project and to staff from the department of technology enhanced learning who in addition in many cases to support in the conference found time to give presentations, to do gastas just now and in one case to do a workshop. Folks, I must say your work has always been top-rate but often invisible as is often the case with people who are providing that kind of support. So it's been a pleasure to be able to un-conceal and reveal your professionalism and dedication here at OER24. I think you've really done the department and the University proud. So it's a chance for us as a University we're only three and a bit years old and I think it's a chance for us all to put our best foot forward and to show and I think the University and the staff have really helped out and stuff there like that. And I think hopefully if this is not your first OER you know what it's like but a lot of people here so forced OER and I've been ranting for months about OER special. I hope people who this is your forced OER you say it you're with people who genuinely care about the things that matter so hopefully you got that. Absolutely so look it's been a pleasure welcoming and hosting you all thanks for coming you're genuinely back anytime not tomorrow maybe but any other time and look we're really interested in collaborating and continuing the conversations with you thanks for your energy and your ideas and your commitment don't be a stranger as they say thank you thank you very much thank you so we're not quite finished yet actually there's one last announcement and who better to give us than Rajiv. Validict your name whatever word I I can't I felt hurt I can't think of big words anymore. Well this was explained to me was I was invited to roast somebody but I can I can switch certainly. Knock yourself out. Martin Weller you my friend are the consummate digital scholar you've battled for open you've relayed the history of ed tech and while also indulging in your only mildly disturbing fetish for metaphors. Your scholarship was of course staggering I will say it's been deeply deeply influential to so many for so long but I will say coming to open many of us feel and I see the same reaction in many young scholars whether you're coming from psychology like me or others people often tell me people are different and open they don't find the same degree of arrogance the same degree of hierarchy a lot of openness a lot of generosity and for me you certainly have exemplified that for a very long time. I will say your dedication to building community your mentorship in particular for the next generation of scholars and your commitment to building a sustainable model for mentorship has been incredible but I'll share a few personal things since we're approaching this exciting milestone in your life. I've learned several interesting things about about Martin over the years many of them have been inspiring your love of hockey our complimentary sympathies for each other myself living in Canada who loves cricket you living in in Cardiff with your love for hockey we seem like we were on different sides of the wormhole for a while your love for the Chicago Blackhawks your shining pride for your daughter with every post many special memories I'll share three of them with with all of you the first was the very first time I met Martin which was at a conference that he was keynoting alongside other luminaries and we found ourselves in a strange place the conference was in Sun City which is an awkward place in many ways but we found a bit of an oasis a place where the staff were meeting and where we were eating the local food we were enjoying bunny chow playing pool this was alongside Tracey McMillan Cotton and Audrey Waters and Brian Lamb and of course Irwin DeVries getting to know Martin for the first time my second favorite memory of you is when we were at the Creative Commons Summit in Toronto and we decided to go to a Blue Jays game Alan you were there too I think and again Martin and I not really understanding what was happening with the slow pace of this game decided we would amuse ourselves by relaying cricket commentary for the entire baseball game live tweeting it as we went which is fantastic but my third favorite memory of you is maybe the most most emblematic of I think your nature and it's when I came to London in 2017 for this conference and it was just after my first edited book had been published from the publisher who was Martin's previous publisher which is how I discovered them and Martin not only met me at a pub to celebrate this exciting moment in my own career but he physically walked to the publisher's offices picked up the very first copy that had been printed brought it to the pub for us to celebrate and I share that with you just as an example of how sweet this man is many of you know that his book 25 years of attack of course there was a lot of work that followed Clint LaLonde had a lot of work to pull together a lot of people to create an audiobook version of each of the chapters and it was a great privilege to be asked to read one of those chapters but I will say Martin I hope you realize that people wouldn't do that for just anybody that was a lot of work but they would do it for somebody who does it all for others absolutely I often tell people I tell my students I would much prefer to have kindness in somebody over cleverness you my friend are incredibly clever and you are exceptionally kind now that you're freed up from all of the trouble that you were causing at the OU or soon to be I look forward to seeing what mischief you get up to in the remaining years of the fun we're going to have together certainly so congratulations my friend I'm very excited to celebrate this huge moment in your life and I'm excited for all of the joy you're going to continue to bring all of us bless you that was like when Joseph Stalin used to speak everybody was afraid to be the force one to stop clapping Martin would you like to we're way ahead of time I've been to 11 OER conferences in a row and I'm going to take you through each one every presentation now I'd say they've all been sunny except this one time you need to work any weather here this is the part where I reveal in fact it's going to be like the end of Scooby-Doo I pull off a mask and actually I've been an undercover agent for Pearson all this time and I would have got away with it it wasn't for you pesky open kids but no I'm so pleased that for those who don't know I'm leaving the open university so and standing down from Gojin so I couldn't ask for a better conference as Tom said right at the start you know the OER conference is a very special community and when I co-chaired it in 2015 it had been run as part of the JISC OER community before then and Maron approached me and said would you consider ought to take it over and there was actually really strong resistance that most people don't don't let it all take over they're evil don't trust Maron you know and we really pushed for it and I think you know if we hadn't done that the conference wouldn't exist still and I think since under Augustus it's kind of become a really conference with its own identity it's become much more international much more critical it's moved away from talking about OER as staffed much more about practice and it really is the kind of I'm not just saying this it really is my favorite conference and it's a favorite group of people so thank you for letting me come up here and ramble on so thank you very much Tom thank you all right that's in the packing glass of all the money that I spent I spent it in good company and of all the harm that I done alas it was to none but me for all I want for want of it to memory now I can't recall so fill to me the packing glass goodnight and joy be with you all