 Hi, I know it says Paul Hodgson on the timetable, but I've Jumped in to steal a few minutes at the beginning because I wanted to provide a little extra context So hi, I'm Martin do Guillamas from Moodle and you you know Moodle I think a lot of you is that they are LMS and we have a lot of other Projects in case you haven't seen it lately. We've spent two years recently Revamping the interface of Moodle so there's a Moodle 4.0 came out recently and it looks a lot better This is how it looks now But I wanted to just quickly talk about AI because I've not heard very much about it yet at the conference And it's very important to the topic that we're talking about here. So open AI is one of the big projects in AI in the world and Couple of you may not be aware of what's happening in this field as things are Accelerating Exponentially and these are things that are happening in very recent times in the last months So this is a commercial site built on top of the AI GPT-3 that comes from open AI this is just an example of a commercially available app that will help you write anything So here we are with a title You enter in the title it then suggests a first paragraph for your article then it says okay Here are some suggested headings for your article. You can tweak all of these as you go along So after you've tweaked your headings and your article the Headings and the title it then generates an entire essay a full article now You would not know that a human hadn't written this it's written very well it reads well and This is something that all your students could do tomorrow Right now to to generate an essay or any art any sort of a that kind of assessment You know especially relating to the last discussion We need to have alternative assessments because this form assessment is pretty much dead This will this will pass any plagiarism filter Because it's original if you hit it Generate me another essay. It'll write you another essay on the same topic in any language And this is not just essays. It's any written material you can imagine could be a website could be a marketing document anything Now the same algorithm is a general-purpose algorithm. That's why it's GPT-3 So here it is writing a poem about a confused raccoon in computer programming class So, you know, I sit in my chair and stare at the screen. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do I'm just a raccoon in a computer programming class Now I won't read the rest, but it's a short funny poem written by an AI Would you like to see that raccoon? sure The this same AI can generate photographs So this is a not a real photograph. It's not cut and pasted from anywhere It is generated pixel by pixel and grown into a viable image based on that's the only prompt it was given Here's an illustration style of Elon Musk checking Twitter. I mean if you saw that in New Yorker, you would not think it was out of place, right? His academic research is before a deadline in the style of Edvard Munch He's the guy who made the scream A squirrel dressed as a Tibetan monk R2-D2 made from bamboo sticks. This doesn't exist Generated in seconds We are facing an onslaught of fake news that these AI's are going to be generating a lot of the content that we see and This is very important for what we're talking about which is education because Education should be responsible for communicating ethics and truth in this environment I mean we are used to a meme-filled, you know environment of distraction You know look at tiktok and YouTube and everything else on the internet, but How do we as educators steer away towards sustainable development goals? How do we help our next generations through this information or disinformation mess to actually achieve Good things and so open ed tech you might have heard it mentioned a couple of times, but I just there is a we have a some ideas here on how to solve this with technology infrastructure and If you I won't go into it now, but come and find me if you're interested I would recommend you come to open ed tech global and fill in the contact form on that site soon There'll be a white paper and a lot of other stuff that explains a lot of this and I hope you can join me Moodle net, however is one project for Moodle that is focused on the quality problem in OER and I'll hand over to Paul to keep talking about that Over to you Paul. Thanks Martin Thanks for opening those kettles of fish that get everybody off the subject. That's great I wanted to talk about Moodle net. That's why I'm here. I look after Moodle net This is our ecosystem for building OER resources and sharing However, I just want to go off script a little bit because I've been sitting in any session in this conference which mentioned OER This is my first time here. I'm obviously a tech guy, but I'm also an educator I was in higher education for many years And I listed the pain points that I've been hearing as I've been going around different sessions people saying Finding OER that was one question mark. I don't want to search many repositories to find the OER that I can use I want one place. So we've seen people talking about how to link them together how to add Repositories into a search engine and things like that second one Copyright and licensing. How do we ensure that we don't have copyright infringement? How do we show that things are licensed correctly? third one Connecting repositories. So we have lots and lots of OER repositories out there. How do we connect them all together? How do we get experts to curate in their area of expertise so that people can find them and follow them? How do we maintain standards? So we have standardized OER across all of this everything that I'm talking about How do we make it multilingual so we don't leave anybody behind and how do we think about quality? I'm here to introduce you to something that addresses all of these which is MoodleNet We're working on an ecosystem for OER which is open free Extensible it will connect and it will address all of these quality issues. Let me run you through it a little bit So it's there right now Moodle.net as a service you can go right now on your phone You can have a look at it. It's it's out there And it is being built as we speak and people are contributing OER materials as we speak Essentially This allows anybody at any institution anywhere as a person as an institution to add OER resources to a central system You can add it directly to Moodle.net, but you can actually have your own Moodle.net as well So the the software is out there free and for installation You can take it install it adapt it yourself as well And there's three main ideas behind Moodle.net. I'm going to go through those right now Firstly is the resources themselves now we started with using the standards of the ISCED So that any resources that go into the system are tagged with those standards So you can actually follow a standard and find resources within that standard secondly we will then Interpret these resources into what's what they are mime types for example Moodle.net will accept any mime type of any resource and you can see a little screenshot there of Some resources that if you go to the home page of Moodle.net right now They are there and it's telling you what they are It is giving you a preview of what they are and it's telling you who has uploaded this as well Directly on that on that front page. Those are curated by us, but eventually they're going to be Put there automatically personalized for you as a user Resources themselves can then be filtered. We've had various sessions on well Okay, so we're all very good to have a massive list of resources a hundred thousand things strong How can I filter those? Well, you can filter them and you can order them in terms of popularity And relevance and things like that as well And I'm just wanting to show you one resource there from somebody who updated something 22 days ago I took the screenshot yesterday so you could see how old it was and the sort of thing that we're trying to do So what you have there is a title which is part of the search index So you will find anything if you search on those keywords you have you see it says teacher training with subject specialization That is the ISAD category and you can click on that and find anything in that category It then has a picture. That's an image that the user hasn't loaded just to preview We are conscious that faculty members don't necessarily have the time to make this look very nice So as you add a resource if you don't have any nice images and you want to attract people to your resource We've inbuilt unsplash if you're aware of unsplash the open source Picture repository so you can add unsplash images to your resources straight away and finally at the bottom You've got a description and we're encouraging people to put a description in which is about how you've used this resource How has it been useful for students and then on the right we get to the profile itself the person come to that in a moment Underneath there mood and that is designed to work standalone with any LMS and with Moodle Of course with Moodle because we want it to be able to reach Potentially 40 million registered Moodle courses within a couple of clicks So if you have that and you'll notice here at the top, I'm not even logged in. It's an anonymous system This is totally open. I can click that send to Moodle button It will have to be where my Moodle installation is and it will put it into my course Just like that and you'll notice that that has been Labelled as a Moodle file. So it knows that this is a Moodle file and you can use it in Moodle, okay? Then we look at the standardization. So we've got license types. We're using creative commons for right now We have a type of so this is an IEEE LOM learning object model basis of the type of resource. It is What level it is, but it's adult primary k12. They're all there When it was created and what language it's in now, you'll notice at the moment the Interfaces in English, but it actually already has lots and lots of multilingual content in there already and we are working Contributions to translate the interface to something in any language There's another one just another language just to show you the sort of things that people are doing Recently, but this is the key. We one of the pain points was how do we get experts to curate not necessarily create But curate content. So in Moodle net if you do sign up in So simple validation process to your email Essentially you are allowed to then create collections and these are collections by one user Essentially in any area you like and call it anything you like that collection could then be any resource from any person put together Into one place that can then be followed by other people So you can do it based on a subject based on an interest based on anything you like So anyone can become the teacher here. You can have students doing this to become the teacher It's really open to everybody We feature some again if you go to the home page You'll see some featured collections there and you start to see at the bottom there We're starting to feature some authors So the authors that have the most popular resource and things are getting featured as well on the front page And the aim of this really is to reward. It's an I know it's a very basic reward at the moment but this will get better and You have a curated content collection there in the English language as well These are all available right now. You can have a look at them online Because we had the Original keynote on I created a little collection of NASA resources directly from NASA for you as well You can see that that's my mood on that account and and you can follow me and get things like that Now finally we talk about profiles because we want to be able to recognize and reward people for their content Contributions now at the moment you will see a bunch of profile pictures there and underneath you'll see some little statistics and there's one which is essentially a star and a star means kudos this this user has this many kudos on the system and the more cute kudos is Based on the number of likes you attract on your resources and what happens with that is in the search results when people find it They can filter by the most popular resources and that's what we're reading. We're reading how many kudos does this resource have as a result and You'll find then that you get featured the more kudos you have. So those are the featured authors as of today and In your profile We then allow you to message users if you want to so if you are a logged in user to middle net And you want to contact somebody who is an expert in a certain area. There is a messaging function But conversely, there's also a content filtering and reporting function just in case is an open system To keep inappropriate things off the system as well Now coming soon, what are we going to do? So we're constantly working on this and as Martin alluded to before We're working towards this ecosystem cloud of OER resources. So the first thing I want to talk about is Federation Federation basically means linking things together So if you were to take middle net software install it on a server somewhere And then you would be able to put your content into that server and don't want to deal with moodle net at all You can do that right now Now this year you are going to be able to click a little button which says federate this content that will then copy Not the data, but all the metadata the search data into moodle net so that if anyone's searching on the central repository They will find your resources on your system as well and also Vice versa. So if someone's searching on yours You will find other resources that come from moodle net now imagine that with a hundred thousand servers All federating content no point of weakness all connected But you can search any of them from any point in the network and it's all free and open That's quite powerful and and this is why we're working on this very intensively this year Finally making finding things easy at the moment our search results are based basically on keywords and you then you can order them By relevance by popularity or by recentness in the system, but we're going to make this better So this is going to be more gamified. It's going to be more rewarding We're working with the university who have designed a very elaborate and complex award system for faculty Based around digital competencies and digital comp edu standards and badges Where it will count towards their continuing professional development of their faculty if they share Create and do things on middle net that we can track so that's coming as well this year and the aim of this is academic quality, so we could have 5,000 moderators sitting around the world as part of community moderating resources We don't relieve that will happen and it's certainly not something that moodle would do anyway But then how do we do this? Well, we have to try and make sure that people we reward the right behavior So that's coming again this year and Finally those of you do use the LMS at the moment If you are on 3.9 or later and you want to add an activity to a resource and you have moodle net ticked as enabled in Your site set up you can bring content straight in you'll see it at the bottom of the page there from moodle net to moodle That's one way at the moment, so you can just send it straight to your course. We want to do it both ways So later this year we are improving that integration between LMS and moodle net So that if you are in moodle you can say share this activity on moodle net to the OER repository And it will send it straight to moodle net maybe not our moodle net But maybe your moodle net so you then have your own shareable infrastructure of Activities resources whatever you want it to be it could be a graphic. It could be a whole course Whatever you want to share How do you want to get involved? Well, we're looking for you to use it to just use it as a free service Contribute things and see what happens if it gets used We really like to know what you think about it say we try to go through the pain points We would like to do more of that to find out what your pain points are and how we can address them and As moodle as a community as we already work with LMS, you know, you can propose features people can vote for them Something we would like to do for those of you that would really like to get serious and got a lot of resources about this Is to help you test it as a case study So we will do a limited number of these to help you get moodle net installed and working in your resources on it So that you can you can use it On your own server and of course if you can help us find developers and funding that's always great And we can all give back to the education community, which is the philosophy behind this. Thank you very much If you have any questions happy to answer We can also feel questions for Martin as well if you haven't Thank you very much very impressive Very interesting. How about I was thinking about the Privacy aspect of user Data so you were mentioning that Users which in the case of our institution will be teachers can get their profile information public How is it? How is this? Yeah, how our privacy concerns fit? Okay. Yeah, it's a good question. Thank you So it's fully GDPR checked so everything we're doing is GDPR checks and one new access movement You got to agree to all of that as normal Also, we don't actually give any information out other than the use of volunteers So you'll never find an email address published You'll never find anything other than the profile name and a description of who I am if you look at it So actually there's nothing given obviously if you are giving to an OER system You might be giving away that in your resources anyway, which we can't control But that's the best we can do for now, please Yeah, and Would a single sign-on Possibly would that be possible for example just to have be a user from an institution Absolutely, and one of the things that's happening right now with the team is they're designing an extensible So you can with lots of single sign-on options and we have five requests for different single sign-on Extensions so we're making it available for developers for you to do it so you can do one and give it back to middle community Great. Thanks. Okay This is brilliant. I was waiting for it I'm I really like it I'm working with Moodle in my institution and I would like to know if it's possible to check content that are for the institution and Some other content that are shared with the rest of the world Or way to be able to select with which resources for just local things or for You can do that with your own installation Obviously, you can do that. Yes, and you don't have to there's no option to federate everything. Martin's got his hand up once say something Yeah, one public one private Yeah, you just have to yeah Yes, anyone else anyone down here Don't be shy Yeah Thank you very much Actually, you made me love more and more Moodle Advocate, but sometimes you're forced to use other stuff So maybe for decisions that I'm not responsible for my question. I have two questions My question would be how can this can this potentially be interoperable or integrate with other? LMSs and In Egypt actually there is a massive implementation of a solution that's cold thinking. I don't know whether you know I have never heard before the government spoke of it. I've never heard of it before but anyways So this is my first question the second thing We have all been into OER initiatives ourselves in the Mina region myself and the Lillia We have launched the portal or we can't Mina and there are different resources, but the thing Would like to do since we you said that you ask us help with your institution And I've seen also the NASA page I would like to ask to which extent can we contribute things that we would be labeled Institutionally not not rather but Alexandria University Egypt for instance like like the thing we said about we've seen about now So integration and institutional pages so integration that has been designed to be Independent so although you saw a send to Moodle button if you would like a send to your system button That is an extensible feature that you could do you could sponsor you could have that done by a developer no problem But it is also designed to be just download and upload if those systems don't Provide that facility because it could be the LMS doesn't allow that So yes, absolutely. It's it is like that. No problem. Does that answer your question? So if you look at mood and that there are some institutions on there who are contributing as institutions so they don't identify the Faculty member or group of faculty. It's really how you set up the user profile. Absolutely. Yes, and that there's no real gauge That's totally up to you. No, it's totally open. Yeah You're welcome anyone else any other questions. Yep Maybe by the time I get there. What is the growth projection for the next two years for the new exponential We're finding already we launched this version of moodle net back September. We're constantly Releasing new tweaks and versions and functionality To it 350,000 people looking for resources at the moment Yes, thank you. It's impressive what you are doing. Yes, I would like to know in the keyword search You know, how do you find appropriate resource? I mean how your indexing? Is made to find the most relevant for our keyword search. Absolutely, right? And that comes back to to this point here making finding easy and I know your academic research is in this area, so So yes, we at the moment. It's a basic keyword search that checks just keywords on the past Title and the description. That's all it's doing right now But then you can order and filter those to try and get the most popular ones to the top So the better search is the person using the right keywords right now However, you know having seen the thing the technology that's going on in terms of semantics We saw yesterday in one presentation really really nice and we were looking at that putting that into moodle net as well. Yes Yeah, I'm allowed to ask a second question. So that's not maybe it's hyper specific in that case Let's meet afterwards So I want to continue down on that a line of questioning about the the different elements is the moodle if you have different elements and moodle so we do too at the Delft University of Technology and We have on one end the We want to have a an LMS that's closed off for teachers to have a private interaction with students. We also have the need for a repository for open educational resources like moodle net could be and Then in between we also have the desire for having a place where we can Where we can publish open courses that do not require any guidance So we could publish something as a course that that students or learners could go through themselves without any Without having to have a teacher in between somewhere. So what would be an in-between? What would be a solution for that in-between phase would you have a suggestion for that? Yeah, so I would install a moodle for that in-between phase and just open it up But because I hope your course isn't just text right Good, so if it's interactive has activities and all the good collaborative stuff Then yes moodle probably is the best option or whatever other thing you're using install a second option a second version of that I just want to say with moodle net it is a open source project system and project like it's true open source So anybody who wants to extend it to integrate with anything else very welcome But what I what I think we have here is the ability to leverage the moodle popularity globally to get this well established because it's a moodle moodle net is now One or two clicks away from every moodle course page in the world By default so that means a lot of people are going to be far already flooding into the system And if we get enough critical mass Hopefully the content is very high quality and then it's worth for any of any of you to Extend moodle net to do whatever you need it to do That's the plan Yes, any more questions That's there's room for one more and then you can actually go up and It's just just one quick question. It's very Simple it's just what kind of content can we upload on the page? I saw it's like kind of HTML or web page Is it possible to upload like video give any my images any mime tape at all? That's recognizable by a web browser essentially. Yeah, great. That's it. Thank you so much Thanks, everyone. We're around if you want to come see us and speak to us and talk about this. Thank you