 Good morning and good afternoon. Thank you for joining us today. Welcome to the Open Education Consortium's Quarterly Membership Meeting. So there's a lot to cover today. We always do, but we actually have a lot to show you. So let's take a look at the agenda first. So we have a guest speaker from Creative Commons. And I'm going to talk about three activities from the consortium that would need your participation, which would be the call for proposals for the Open Education Global Conference, Open Education Week 2016, Open Education Awards for Excellence nomination, and then I'm going to go through the membership survey results followed by briefing on two activities by the consortium, which are the Open Education Information Center and the OECX MOOC project. And again, as usual, we'll open the floor for questions, comments, and discussion items from members. So first, we have a guest speaker. We've been inviting guest speakers who can show us a glimpse of what they're up to so that we can learn from each other and also find ways to collaborate. Now Suhyun is from Creative Commons. She is a regional coordinator in the Asia-Pacific region. She'll brief us about the Creative Commons Global Summit that'll take place in October. So without further ado, Suhyun, the solider. Thank you, Mina. Can you hear me? Great. Thank you. So it's my pleasure to participate in this call and I really appreciate this opportunity to speak and introduce this Global Summit to you guys. First, before I start, apologies for two things. First, please understand these ugly slides because I didn't have enough time to prepare proper slides for this call. But I hope these slides can give you at least the gist of this Global Summit and its information. Thank you. And second, as Mina might told you before, I have some audio problems. So unfortunately, I cannot hear your voices and might not be able to take your questions. But if you have any questions regarding my talk and regarding the Global Summit, please contact me at Suhyun at creativecommons.org. Yeah. But sadly, again, I have to leave in five or ten minutes. So if I don't have enough time to take your questions, yeah, you can just ask any questions via my email address. So Creative Commons holds this Global Summit every two years to bring together a fleet around the world and other activists, academics, and experts who promote and advance the cause of the Commons for culture and open knowledge around the world. And as you may, as some of you may know, CC has a vibrant affiliate community and network around the world in more than 80 countries now. And we think this Global Summit is a very important event to boost our energy and promote the value of the Commons and openness to the public as well as to affiliate ourselves. So following the previous Global Summit in Buenos Aires in 2013 and in Warsaw in 2011 to see the Global Summit will be held in Seoul, South Korea, my home country from October 14th to October 17th. And the main theme of the Global Summit is Hello Sharing World. This is like a catchphrase. So this is the theme and there is something for each day. For day one, we have celebration of sharing and for day two, work of sharing and for day three, future of sharing is the sub-theme of each day. And we frame this event like this because we want to give an overview of what CC has done in the past and what CC is doing in collaboration with other open culture communities around the world. And then we want to talk carefully about what kind of future we want to bring. So these are the main themes and the main venue for the Global Summit is the National Museum of Korea which is located in the center of Seoul. And it's a very beautiful museum We held, actually held the Asia Pacific Regional Meeting a few years ago and also last year at this very building. And there are many speakers from around the world not only from our affiliates but also from various fields, academics and activists and other open culture communities including Yokai Bankler, the Bergman Professor at Harvard Law School who is also the author of a seminal book, The Wealth of Networks. And Laila Tratikov is the new executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation and she will also be one of our keynote speakers on day one. And Julia Reda, a member of the European Parliament and she is also at the forefront of the EU's Copyright Loan Reform Movement and she will be the main keynote speaker of our summit on October 17th. And last but not least, Ryan Merkley, the CEO of the Crave Commons of course and he will give a keynote, special keynote speech on October 16th along with Jae Yoon, the political leader of ZZ Korea and Professor Geelam Jeon who is so-called the father of Korea's internet. So there are many more important speakers from ZZ Global Network and some other representatives of open businesses and organizations like TJ Police of Hewlett Foundation and Andy Yang, the CEO of 500pxl. So they will be there to give short talks or participate in panel discussions. And if you look at the slides, the summit website also provides a schedule of the program and we use the shared application which some of you are already familiar with. So the program is currently draft and is subject to change but the organizers of the summit is aiming to lock the program down by the end of this month. I know this is very tight schedule but we hope to make it work. And among the sessions, I think most of you are very interested in what kind of OER sessions are going to happen during the summit and there are mainly three OER related sessions on day one and day two and on October 15th, there is a short talk by Cable Green, the director of Global Learning for Creative Commons and he will give an overview of the global OER movements and this is role and value there. And this day is sort of a public-facing event so the organizers asked him to briefly talk about the global movement and the status of OER movement and this is role. Whereas on October 17th, there are a lot of panel discussions, workshops and other seminar-style sessions happening on the day and there are two OER related sessions. One is OER projects showcase which will feature various OER related projects from around the world including the open education movement in Poland and some other OER showcases like Dr. Fazz's OER in Arab worlds and Creative Commons licenses for OER development adoption and some very specific OER cases studies in schools in Australia and some education camps in China and the last one is OER mainstream and the Moonshot. This session is run by Cable Grain and he will collaborate with many other speakers and participants. Actually there are several proposals on open education and the organizers were finding very hard to include all of these great OER proposals into this program and so we just decided that all the proposals submitors work together to collaborate in creating one session and this is the result so there will be an open session on education Moonshot for 30 minutes and another global OER movement coordination session for 50 minutes and our Minahwang and some other speakers of Korea OER movement community will likely be participating in this session as well. I just saw Igor's question so there will be live streaming but we are currently checking with venue and facility service provider and we hope to live stream all of the sessions on day one which is October 15 and some keynote speeches on day two which is October 16 but again most of the sessions will be recorded and will be uploaded to the website afterwards. Thank you. So that's it for me so if you have any other questions just contact me at my email address Suhyun at CreativeComments.org Thank you everyone I'll give Thank you. Bye bye. Suhyun for giving us, showing us a glimpse of what this wonderful event would look like so I don't know if you remember but we have been working together with CreativeComments that passed in quite a few occasions for example our global conference in 2010 in Hanoi Vietnam was also the launch event for CreativeComments Vietnam so because OER Open Education uses CreativeComments as a common license or protocol of sharing we have been working together with them and it's really good to see that they're putting a lot of emphasis on education in their Global Summit also. Alright, so next on the agenda is Call for Proposals Open Education Global 2016 so we announced in Banff this past April that the 2016 conference will be held in Krakow, Poland AGH University of Science and Technology is the local host for the conference and if you've been coming to our Global Conferences which you have been you will know that our Global Conferences take place in the most beautiful parts of the world and their local hosts have showed a great hospitality so the theme for the coming conference is Convergence Through Collaboration you see the Call for Proposals here Igor has just put in the link to the website you can see the five different tracks that we have but even before you go into the tracks you'll see that just from the theme you'll see that we're trying to bring in together bring together many different aspects of openness open access, open education, open source open anything, we would love to see how they can converge merge into one great effort now the Call for Proposals are due on November 16 and again this year we've partnered with Open Praxis so that if you're interested in publication opportunities please make sure you specify that you're interested in having your proposal reviewed by Open Praxis okay so next on the agenda is the Open Education Week 2016 again you are very familiar with what Open Education Week is like next year it'll be in the week of March 7 it's from March 7th to 11th and it just is a global celebration of open education so people who host webinars they host regional events they submit resources whatever they can do in open education they will contribute or anybody who's new to open education can come and learn about open education and this is our request to you today we're looking for people to participate in the planning group so if you're interested please send an email to infoatopeneducationweek.org it is a very important event for the consortium to serve the broader open education community if you have great ideas on how to promote open education around the globe please do contact us so planning group works on organization of events how we can promote these events etc so some people work on doing press releases blogging, social media some would concentrate more on the program aspect of things some others on just making things more possible in each region by doing outreach work yes you can choose to work by geographical areas okay so we move on to the next item another call for participation which is the nomination for open education awards for excellence is now open so there are three categories for the awards individual awards, site and course awards and project awards if you know of a great individual in the area of open education or a wonderful project please nominate them for the awards they will be announced at the open education global 2016 and here's the link for nomination and now that brings us to the membership survey results so a couple months ago we had sent out a survey to our member institutions and organizations and the purpose was to better understand member needs and plan consortium activities around the specified needs so the turnout was not that great we have 40 respondents and yet the responses that we got I believe are quite significant you'll see what the members are looking for and here's a snapshot of what they told us so the first topic that we asked about is how people are using OER the question was do faculty at your institution currently use OER within their daily teaching and learning practices 22 said yes, 18 said no the next question was do faculty at your institution currently develop new OER collaboratively with other academics or institutions 23 said yes and 17 said no so that's about the same so we asked them so if you are creating these contents collaboratively do you describe what you're doing and somebody told us that they're adding OER as a part of course reading materials or assignments another institution said all their content is OER and somebody else said their faculty use MOOCs and OCW in their teaching and some faculty use their OCW courses as an alternative to publishing their materials on the university elements so that'll save some time for them each semester and in another institution OERs are built into courses by faculty subject matter experts as learning resources and at another institution it was a part of course requirement to confirm that they considered OER as an option for course materials and textbooks and some were translating materials in their language classes now the second topic we asked about was institutional policies we asked does your institution have policies related to open education 25 said yes 15 said no if yes of those 25 which areas does the policy cover so for this question the response called answered and you see that they had policies on open data open access open licensing adoption of OER such as open textbooks faculty support for OER creation and the next topic was MOOCs we asked do you consider MOOCs as an open education initiative 34 said yes 36 said no I'm sure you can imagine why we had that no and then we asked does your institution offer one or more MOOCs 21 said yes 19 said no if yes what platform are you using so it was really interesting how the ones who said they do have a MOOC project going many were on multiple platforms Coursera, edX and FutureLearn were the most popular and then there were a couple other options such as developing their own platform and we see OECX or there are two responses saying OECX we asked the ones who said no to having a MOOC project so if no does your institution plan to start a MOOC in the coming 12 months 8 said yes and 11 said no so having asked those questions we asked do you have any comments or thoughts on MOOCs and some of the comments we got were there was difficulty in joining well-known platforms probably because of the membership fees and whatnot they're not ready to tackle sustainability challenge with MOOCs and one person said MOOCs will be one of the lasting innovations in open education and online pedagogy in the future it helps university to benchmark its quality of services with a prominent university globally another person said MOOCs will serve as important tool for virtual student mobility another response was encouraging all MOOCs to use open licenses will broaden use of OERs across cultures there were some negative thoughts on MOOCs as well this one respondent said not sure if the MOOC is the long-term solution at this time there was some concerns about the height on MOOCs and this response said MOOCs have come here to stay but there's no sustainable business or operational model yet so you see this mixed ideas and thoughts on MOOCs so in 2014 the open education consortium ran an open MOOC pilot project that allowed OEC members to offer openly licensed MOOCs on the edX platform under the OEC shingle now an OECx course must be based on existing OERs if OECx continues to offer the opportunity we asked would your institution be interested in running an open MOOC as part of OECx 19 said yes and 16 still said no so if you were to offer an open MOOC with OECx what kind of assistance would you need but people thought assistance in using the edX platform was the most important or most needed service using the edX platform knowing about best practices in MOOCs course evaluation developing MOOC strategy these were the topics that our members were interested in and then we went on to the topic of open education week 2015 did you participate in the 2015 open education week 26 said yes or team said no yes what did you do our members did a series of webinars one each day some institutions had even more than one workshop a day they did webinar tour of a site or their open education project event there were colloquiums and presentations participation at a conference related to open education launching a MOOC in time for open education week and hosting a competition during open education week to bring awareness in open education so I don't know if you're aware of this but we have materials from the open education week website to promote open education week so in the form of web banners and posters and slide templates etc 15 have used these promotion materials to increase awareness of open education and then our question was what suggestions do you have to make open education week more expected so we got comments like get more people to participate host a contest maybe it can be regional enable submission and events on the website early on organizing events by region would be more effective than just having everything all over the world in the globe making all presentations downloadable at once would be a great source of resources more use of social media and blogging would be good and somebody mentioned maybe we should have a showcase for newcomers so that people are inspired by these cases so we went on to ask about other consortium activities we asked about the quarterly membership meeting have you participated in an OEC online or quarterly membership meeting 22 said yes 18 said no if yes what did you like or dislike about the meeting we only got likes in the comment box people have mentioned repeatedly that it's good to know current projects of the consortium and it's good to have updates on what other members are doing so yesterday there was another meeting and we had people from MIT presenting on OCW Scala program so when you learn about other people's projects it does give you certain ideas about what you can also be doing about the newsletter do you receive the OEC newsletter 28 said yes 12 said no on professional directory are you listed in the directory 21 said yes 15 said no so still we are seeing that we need to promote these activities a lot more to our members we asked about the information center as we were preparing for the launch of the information center we asked what kind of information would you like to see in the open education information center the responses they could choose multiple times and we see that many people wanted links to slides and presentations on open education there were more responses saying they would like to see forums presentation templates information on starting an open education project maybe a central location for tools and apps case studies and FAQs we are going to talk about the information center a little later on today we will see that the survey results were reflected in the information center and this was our last question on the consortium activities we asked please indicate if you are interested in participating in any of the following initiatives and activities many showed interest in marketing and messaging on the value of openness so this shows that we really have to utilize our member base more in order to increase awareness for open education some others showed interest in open education with planning groups, outreach to businesses the global conference program committee improving discoverability of resources and open education for lifelong learning so we have members who are interested in jumping into consortium initiatives and activities so that's the summary of our membership survey we've got two more things that I will very quickly zip through and then we can open the floor for questions so the open education information center I'm sure you've seen this by now the information is organized in a way that it addresses different audience groups such as faculty, students, administrator researchers and policymakers when you go into a subject topic of interest you will see that the information is organized in question and answer format links to other resources that explain or that provide further information on the question what's most important about the open education information center is that this is a community effort so you will see the submit an info button wherever you go on every page there is submit info button if you know of really good video, a deck of slides just good resources on open education please submit it to the information center and then you can see the open education events page there is a calendar for events and there is a forum which is not, we haven't really started using the forum yet but you know that it is to come have community news, forums for question and answer etc. so that was the information center and the last to brief you guys on is the OECX MOOC project yesterday Una briefed on this because Una was in charge of this project now the reason we started this OECX MOOC project is because we wanted to transform open content into massive open online courses to increase access and reduce costs we worked with edX and they were the ones to issue verify certificate and we had two questions in mind when we started this project the first was how can we reusing OECX MOOC to make MOOC development more cost effective second is how can we reusing OECW increase collaboration opportunities so with these two research goals we were funded by the Hewlett Foundation to start this project and in the pilot phase we had nine courses from universities in Taiwan, US, Spain UK, India, Japan and a community college in the states and the average enrollment was 3250 students courses were in engineering business, sciences, teacher education they were on various topics so after having completed these nine courses we came up with support tiers it turns out that even when you have your open courseware ready to be used in your MOOC it takes a lot of effort into designing the course into just making sense out of all the courseware that you have three tiers the first one is the new OECX developer this is for somebody who only have open courseware OER courses somebody who wants to do MOOCs for the first time for this tier there will be up to 60 hours of support and the preparation time period will be anywhere between 6 to 9 months will provide instructional design review and some platform support and the second tier is new MOOCs by current OECX developer which we figure would need about up to 30 hours of support in 3 to 6 months again instructional design review and limited platform support will be provided and the last tier would be a rerun on existing OECX MOOCs OECX platform is quite strong but it gets updated at least twice a year so if you want to rerun a course even though you've got same materials you're going to have to rethink your course design in order to enter the interface many things change so in this case there will be about between 10 to 15 hours of technical support in the period of 3 to 4 months and maybe 10% or less modifications to the original MOOCs they had so if you're interested in creating an OECX course you can click on the link at her email address at the bottom of the slide and at Munda vouchers for the fact that UNAS think giving great support to the OECX project so the ones who participated in the project so that's all the information that I needed to part for today so the last part of the meeting is questions, comments, discussion items from you guys yeah UNAS worked really hard at it too so all of you guys have speaking rights which means as long as you click on the microphone button on top menu bar you should be able to speak if you would rather ask questions in the chat window that's fine too any questions? Okay for now UNAS has all the data, all the interview results so she plans to report on it sometime this fall and of course it will be made available on the website and will announce it through social media if you're interested in the raw data do contact UNAS yes I think so to try our best to get the word out on the information center so when we launched the open education information center we had told everybody that it is still in the beta version and we haven't done the official official launch of it yet in the meantime I'll make sure that you hear about it in our social media more I'll ask members to help us to promote stuff any other questions, comments? I actually was expecting a lot more questions on our next MOOC project thank you so much for joining us today our last slide is how to get in touch with us more on social media so if you don't know about them get to know them now thank you