 Hello everyone, my name is Michael Pascovichis and I am delighted to be here with you today for OER 22. Welcome to everyone, whether virtually or in person, how exciting. I am joining you asynchronously, but if everything has worked out I should be in the Discord right now to take any questions, feedback or comments as we go. And I certainly want to extend an invitation for you to participate in this research that's being done as part of my GoGN fellowship for the year 2022. Very happy to be a fellow this year. I'm a graduate of the GoGN program and it really changed the process of my PhD and I'm grateful for all the support I've had in the network and the contacts I've made as a result. So just to give you some context, I am joining you from the west coast of Canada. We're on the traditional territories of the Laquungen people, as well as the Songi, Sasquimalt and Wasanich people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. So I'm very grateful to be here and to be part of this community and do the work I do as an educator. I'm an early career educator. I've worked for many years as an educational developer so I've worked with teachers for many years but I'm now working as an assistant professor in educational technology. So in that role I get to work with future and current teachers who are interested in thinking about technology and teaching and learning. So I'm very happy to be doing that work. Working with teachers is always very exciting. They're very keen to learn and to the service their community. So it's a great place to be. Now you may have noticed that the title of this presentation is a little different from what I pitched in the OER 22 program. Truth is, it's evolved. Part of the fellowship is a chance to engage in open research. And throughout the process of coming up with the proposal, sharing with the Goji and community getting feedback. So this morning I was in a session with my fellow fellows, Catherine and Vivian, and we had even more feedback coming to support each other's project. So we're very much doing an open design and so things have shifted as we have gone. And I've kind of moved away from the idea of identifying digital literacies as initially sketched out in the OER 22 proposal. So we're talking more about foundations of principles or values for open education that we might be able to share with early career educators or teachers in my context to get them engaged with with open educational practices. I've been working with open education for some time, working with faculty and supporting awareness and also contributions to open education. And in that I've learned that there's more than the adoption of resources, of course, there is pedagogical changes that can come from using open educational content or processes. And I do believe that this can have an impact on the way we teach and what we ask learners to do. So I'm really interested in this idea of how we can get at the practices associated with open education and build those in to early career teachers as sort of the way things are done in a way hopefully to enhance their pedagogy and the way they engage with their learners, whether it's in sourcing content or designing learning experiences or thinking about assessment in all those areas I think open education has the potential to make change. So the goal of this project is to identify a framework for sort of the foundational values principles, and maybe even some skills in relation to open educational practices. So I think the framework could be usefully described in terms of not just content, not just open educational resources, but also in terms of pedagogy. And what can we do that's a little different now that we've got open access to resources or open systems and tools to share and create. And that leads to the technology as well that's available to us. Again, in my early proposal for OER 22, part of the feedback was the tension in that you want to define a framework, but this is such a kind of complex and maybe even messy space right so it's multifaceted. It's highly contextual and would a framework really help. And that's why I've kind of moved into the idea of values and principles for open education, and I, this may shift even further as we go and with your feedback today. I hope it might too. As I said I work with teacher candidates. What a great place to be there super keen they're eager they know what they want to do. They are committed to being teachers when they enter a program such as the one I get to meet them in. And they are great candidates for engaging with open education it's we have this formal training program where they become teachers and certified eventually. So we're trying to embed open educational practices in our program. And right now it happens in a teacher or rather a technology integration course. There's a lot in that course it's not only about open there's also things about data privacy and how we, how we select tools for use with students that are pedagogically sound. And so we don't have a lot of space to work on open educational practices, although I try to model them as a teacher myself in the program, but many researchers have identified the space of K to 12 as one where we could make some more projects with open education on open educational practices. And so this project is largely about that context, although you can think about it in terms of faculty development, or other areas where we're trying to get educators thinking about engaging more openly. So one of the models that we often use to talk about technology integration is a T pack model. They seem to like this model, because for some of them, especially if they're post degree so I've done a four year degree. They're coming to be teachers. They have a really kind of good sense of the content that they are probably going to be teaching So a little bit more confidence there, pedagogies, all new within the program so learning how to teach, how to engage how to assess. They've got those skills as well that they're picking up along the way. And then there's the technological skills. And so the T pack model kind of identifies those and identifies the crossover in terms of how these students act, and how to make choices around how to use technology that makes sense for the content you're trying to teach, and is well positioned pedagogically to lead to meaningful learning. I've done a little bit of kind of just getting a sense of where my students are at in terms of their confidence in these areas. This is a post degree group very small group. We noted 26 individuals, but they were asked to just rate their confidence in terms of the content that they're going to be teaching the pedagogy and how they can teach in a meaningful way and then the technical knowledge so you can see content. There's more folks who are feeling a little bit more confident more people up on that higher end of the scale. In terms of pedagogy was quite a wide split in terms of feeling confident about their actual pedagogical approaches, and then technological knowledge as well kind of similar to content emerging in some feelings of strength there as well which is great. I'm going to do larger scale studies on this to see how groups may differ over time and certainly if you looked at a group that was doing a four year education program, they may have less in the area of content knowledge having not done a four year degree. So a little research on just getting a sense of what our learners know about open education. So we asked them about a couple areas or concepts in the space of open education to see what their awareness was though this is again a small degree but gives a sense of some of the gaps in terms of knowing about open textbooks or open educational resources, which they seem to have a little bit more awareness of all these words make sense I think for many but they may not know some of the practices associated with how do you actually use these words I mean, in terms of how it can change your pedagogical approach. So there's work to be done, but I also find that in a teacher education program. Folks are really typically overwhelmed, learning about how to teach how to assess how to engage with parents and community. So it's a little bit overwhelming to in, as well, introduce the whole space of open education, but I still think it's really important. So I'm looking at some ways, maybe to connect to principles of teacher education, like in around access and equity and social justice. These are all built into our teacher education programs but how can you perhaps enact some of those through open education. So, there's been many models proposed that seek to articulate open educational practices for teachers. This is not a comprehensive list as there's been many beyond what I have here these are perhaps the ones I have the most experience with. These as a guide as part of the literature of you, but also see what we can tease out from the community. In addition to these or perhaps building on or extending these specifically in the area of early career or future teachers and trying to identify some of the foundational values and principles that could help them start engaging with open education and building it into their practice. And so this is where I invite you to participate in a short survey to gather feedback on what you think could be part of this framework. I have recently completed an ethical review for the collection of data from the open education community. And I'd really be interested in hearing from you, whether you work in teacher education or have experience engaging with open educational practice yourself or supporting faculty in their engagement with open educational practice. I would really like to hear from you around what could be helpful for for new and emerging educators to get into this space. The survey shouldn't take you more than three to five minutes. So I hope you'll take the opportunity. I think it is donating five Canadian dollars for every survey completed up to $1000 to aid relief in Ukraine as part of the data collection process. So I hope that provides some incentive to engage, and I'd really appreciate if you would. So this is the survey at this link will be on line for at least the next two months, but I encourage you to not wait. And I hope this presentation has given you something to think about in terms of what you could contribute. The goal is to build on the work that's been done already, but also see what we can come up with. If we can crowdsource a model around the foundations for open educational practice. So I really hope you'll participate. I'll close there, and I will be in the discord, you can contact me as well if you wish. Thank you for your responses, which I'll provide via a tweet of the slide deck, and if you need to contact me, you can reach me in a variety of ways. I thank you for your time, and I wish you a wonderful conference, and I wish you well. Take care. Thanks.