 storming event this morning. We had a lot of really good people coming in with a perspective of the work they've done over the past few years meeting each other and saying oh we can all work together in a different way to change policy as well as just technical implementation. It was really nice to see people feel the strength of the community in the room to make to make societal change happen. The thing that I found most inspiring was Joey's keynote this morning and kind of his call to the community to really think of ourselves as innovators and that innovation happens on the fringes and I thought that was interesting because a lot of the discussion this year is driven around scaling up assessment but assessment of particular things that are easy to assess that are computable and I think Joey really kind of moved our thinking in a different direction there to say you know start looking at places that don't look like universities that don't look like schools and see how people are in kindergarten so before kindergarten so when he's a diving instructor how do people learn diving and then feel inspired by that and bring a sense of openness to allow those kinds of ideas to come into your work and your institutions I think that was very inspiring. One of the most interesting things I found about the challenges presented during the conference is how to help teachers effectively we can create really high quality OER resources but that transition to having the teachers use them in very effective ways and helping them participate in the innovation of how they're being taught. The most interesting conversations that we've had here at the Berkman Center regarding open education resources is a discussion which centered around a Leonard Cohen lyric there's a crack in everything that's where the light comes in and we've been talking about what are the current cracks in the current educational system whether it's assisted by OER whether it's traditional or formal education or whether it's informal education and whether it's here in the US or North America or globally we've come up with a fairly interesting inventory of what are some kind of pain points within current education systems and in every case we determine some way in which the network community the open education system the open education resources and the community that has gathered around it can address those cracks or those broken bits of the current education system. The interesting things we were discussing in our cluster was that although people are quick to criticize our education system we're not that bad in fact we encourage creativity and project-based learning probably better than a lot of other countries and one of the things we wanted to do is frame the discussion slightly in a more positive way if you feel like you're losing the fight takes the I guess enthusiasm out so one of the things we wanted to do is focus on the best that we do in education particularly in America and make it even better. I think what I found most interesting about today is that there's clearly some inherent tensions in in what we're all doing there's the tension between individual teachers wanting creativity and the ability to build their own courses and express themselves through those course materials etc and that's in direct attention with wanting turnkey solutions that don't require a lot of time. There's there's this tension between innovation that happens at the margins and the fact that unless we influence the core and the mainstream we could be largely irrelevant so I think one of my takeaways is that sometimes we spend time talking about things we don't really need to. I think at the end of the day innovation happens at the margins and it's critical to influence the center and some this isn't a central command and control kind of movement it's a movement and so some efforts of OER organizations will ultimately be important for innovators at the margins and that'll ultimately create pull on the center and other OER efforts are going to directly try to be turnkey at the mainstream and in effect behavior there and move from the center to them to the core and I don't know that we need to decide whether one's better than the other. I think what's really essential is we were all effective at the approaches we take and at the work that we're trying to do.