 Yep, got that here. So if there are any questions in between, definitely put them in the chat and I'll try to get to it at the end probably. So again, thank you all for being here from all around the world. My name is Pim Bellingha. I am now live from Amsterdam in the Netherlands and in this coming 20 minutes I'll share briefly with you some of the stories that we see from our perspective from Graspold with all the universities and schools that we work with and I'll probably breeze through it. So let's see where we'll get, but the main takeaway I think is that we sort of try to summarize all of the experience that we saw in sort of seven patterns of collaboration on how we see institutions working together and of course I'm very interested to see if you actually sort of recognize these and if they sort of match your experiences and your views and the idea is that being aware would help sharing best practices so that you could sort of match your situation with others and in this talk I would like to focus on certain resources because of course there are all kinds of resources and open resources but the one that in this talk I would like to focus on are exercises, online interactive exercises and the question is then to sort of how do educators from different institutions collaboratively create and curate these open resources, these open exercises from of course our view from Graspold. So just real brief introduction. I'm from Graspold, a social enterprise also based here in the Netherlands. The name is a merger of two words to grapple, to struggle, and to grasp, to understand so we hope to help students get from one to the other and we're very happy to have been and now since this year a member of OE Global but also in the past years sort of following all the great work that everybody's is doing on the open education field. I started a few years ago as a teacher, statistics teacher and I wanted more time to do interactive things and that meant that I wanted to use exercises so that students could really practice the basics by themselves in their own time and pace but what I found is that meant that I either had to create a lot of exercise at myself or use a well often copyrighted publisher and I really didn't want to do that for my students because it was a crash course, it was a very brief course but then I was stuck a little bit because yeah I was sort of stuck in between these two things and what I noticed is that actually a lot of other colleagues had the same thing so what I noticed is there were a lot of great things happening, there were a lot of people creating wonderful resources but it was not really shared and that sort of got me together with my co-founder Thais and the rest of our team to sort of embark on this mission to make education more accessible and personal for everyone especially for statistics and mathematics as that was the course that I was teaching and to help build on each other's contributions so that's when we started Dressball, a collaborative practice assessment and editor platform for open exercises on math and statistics and so real brief you can collaborate, edit, you can select a lot of exercises and create them into different courses so that students can practice and get personal feedback and in the end as a teacher you can also get the insights and see if students actually master those topics and then sort of use your precious time to focus on the things that they really struggle with and a lot of those exercises are also created by us and they're shared under a Creative Commons license out in the open with no need to log in so if you go to Dressball.com.com you can just access them and we're still sort of publishing more and we're very pleased and proud I think to to receive the OER Collection Awards a previous year. Now we're not only sort of dedicated to open in our own platform but we also really want to make sure that it's actually interoperable so just sort of a brief plug that we're also hosting an asynchronous action lab so to try to form a standard for these exercises that they can actually be shared between programs so that it's really open not only now but also in the future and with doing that we now have 25 million answers by 51,000 students on those exercises by a lot of different organizations and it's those organizations and their experiences that I would like to focus on their examples that at least we see in the field and to summarize that into seven patterns and these are the seven patterns visualized and of course I'll explain briefly what they are but maybe first the idea is being aware of these of these patterns will hopefully help sharing best practices and experiences between organizations a clarification of the symbols so the square is an organization the blue circle an instructor the green dotted circle a student the hexagon a supporting staff or team and the arrows are either either sort of the reuse or the publishing of exercises and what we encountered is often a first step is just informal sharing you have colleagues maybe at different institutions they created some exercises and they're they're interested are there maybe other people who have also created exercises that I can maybe use their exercises I'm open to sharing if people would like to use it and so then often what we try to do is actually bring these people together sort of yeah work as a sort of a liaison to bring these often disconnected efforts together but often that's that may that may sort of stay yeah often informal so that's one of the first patterns that we see informal sharing the next pattern is one that we encountered at Utrecht University for example so it's quite a big university in the Netherlands and a few years ago the methods department started collaborating due to a big curriculum change and they actually created a lot of resources and what we saw there is it was sort of a community internal so there are a lot of teachers all creating exercises reusing exercises from each other curating their own exercises so it's really an internal community at least at that time there was not really being a lot of collaboration with other communities yet but definitely internally this was a strong community creating and reusing exercise for example that we created but they also added a lot of the things actually to the repositories began because everything they created they also shared openly then the third one we see at the DPU Delft it's a technical university they really have intervision open education of course they also co-host this conference and the thing that here I would like to point to is their mathematics education where they have a special team the project innovation mathematics education and what that team does is they create a lot of resources so for example last year they they released a lot of linear algebra exercises they created those and then already released them out into the open so everybody can use it but they also create a lot of now sort of really I would say value added videos with then questions that students can practice interactively and so what you see there is the team really I would say works as a sort of an in-house open education resources publisher so they really do a lot of the production work so that other teachers can actually use that work and I think this is a really interesting pattern to see because I think that can really sort of enhance and add to the quality of the open resources and that leads us to the fourth example and that is at a different university in the Netherlands at the University of Zwente and here I would like to focus on their modularized math courses for all technical students because what they did they recently switched from a commercial copyright publisher to open educational resources but they they did sort of struggle because they didn't have the time to invest to sort of curate and filter all of the open educational resources and so then they asked us to to sort of function as in you would call it external open publisher where we actually did a lot of the curation and the filtering and and the selection so that we could create a sort of ready to use a package of open educational resources at the same quality and the same yeah same broadness as copyright publishers would do but then open so that they could also build on top of that and that they could also edit everything so they would actually have more control and this is sort of the fourth pattern that we see it's again a sort of a production team but now externally and what I'm very happy about is that we now actually see that it's exercises created by the TU Delft that are now being filtered a selection of that is being used at Zwente they're now adding new exercises and those are shared back again to Delft so now we actually have these things mingling and actually these communities touching and sharing more exercises and the sharing between institutions leads me to the fifth pattern because here we see four universities departments from four years universities are working together to create one public repository or statistics exercise and that's the share stats project it's a government subsidized a big project by surf it's hosted and what we dare see is a really a formal community of practice so now we have different communities at different institutions really formally collaborating sharing all their work it's a two maybe even three year project and it's very structured and all of the resources that they then curate together are being shared and published sort of in batches so that's really the fifth type of pattern that we see it's a formal collaboration between communities and then the last two so I think the sixth one that we see is a student driven curation so yeah it's it's not exactly the same as collaboration but I did want to highlight it so I know this was happening at some medical faculties where they said there are so many open educational resources but but it's really hard to estimate the quality and then they actually asked a lot of students to help them with curating that sort of very broad selection into a into a more specific selection and then actually that was being sort of shared with with the instructors so that they could do the last curation really go into the sort of the topical quality of the of the exercises and and then that selection again was shared outside so that it's actually a lot of value add that was being brought from there so here there's not a lot of collaboration between universities but it's it's really the students who who are really helping here but here the students really still had a sort of more only a curation effort but I'm really excited about to see happening and of course this really ties I think into the open pedagogy movement also is something that is happening here at the the Hogeschool of Amsterdam so right here in the city the focus here is on a course for future mathematics teachers because there is now a pilot going on where it's student-driven creation so actually students create a lot of exercises the same thing they'll have to do when they become an instructor they review them share them see what works and then sort of the the good quality ones can then later on be shared internally again or also externally to help people practice so this is really where it's the students who do the collaboration and and then sharing it again so those were the seven patterns it's it went by very fast but I hope that being aware and seeing the patterns like this helps sharing sort of best practices and an experience to see sort of if if you actually have the same kind of collaboration and so the first question would be sort of question 1a are there more patterns I'm really interested to see if if you see other patterns in in your institutions and maybe a second question is is there a pattern that actually matches the way that you collaborate so maybe that would be an interesting one to to go into the chat and to see if there are people who think that they see more patterns or if there are patterns that actually match the way that you collaborate with your colleagues and then as a sort of a final note or insight from us is that we really see an interesting role for these OER publishers whether they're in-house or external because we think it really helps teachers who who don't have a lot of time often because they have so much to do and it really helps them switching from copyrighted resources to open resources and then that can really help to then sort of build on from their collaboration once they sort of have that first set or selection of materials ready so that they can actually sort of do their normal instruction and then edit or adapt these materials and then start sharing by themselves and I think this is really interesting then we really get this this movement from disconnected efforts into building on on top of each other's efforts so let's work together to make education more accessible and personal and I know you're already doing that but let's see if we can sort of connect our efforts more and contribute to that so thank you OE Global, a last shout out so if you want to contribute your input also to an open format so that exercises that are being created in different applications can be more easily shared please visit our open format workshop and finally if you want to see the resources go to graspable.com slash open if you want to connect on twitter at open graspable but for now let's move to the chat and see if these patterns actually match and if there are patterns that you that actually fit the way that you collaborate thank you wow this is great Pim I really love the notion of patterns and I put that question into chat which patterns match how you collaborate we do have a couple of minutes does anyone in the participant group want to make some comments related to this notion of patterns and which ones seem to work for you you're welcome to grab the mic and speak directly I think it's always the awkward silence moments when nobody knows if they should speak but I'm really interested to hear Paul do you see other patterns in collaboration because of course you also see a lot of different collaboration between institutions all around the world are there different ways that you see people connecting or collaborating yeah well I guess I'll just say this and that is that I've never conceived of this idea before of like patterns of connection and those kind of representing kind of best practices and so I will say that it's got me thinking now Pim and I'll be kind of examining what I see happening in the global context from this particular lens I'm also very keen to kind of get a sense of it's like some of these patterns are what I'll call micro ecosystems to relate to something I was part of yesterday you know where it's happening within a kind of very regional context and then to what extent will that pattern then be the same or different when you move beyond that kind of micro ecosystem to something more macro where you're engaging other countries let's say and I don't know yet it's just very thought-provoking so it's one of the more it's been really fascinating and Robert has mentioned patterns where non-university professionals are sharing that's interesting too yeah so I I guess we'll have to stop here Pim but I'll just say thank you so much for this very intriguing idea and very fascinating way to represent sharing I think that's a powerful thank you thank you Paul and all the attendees of course thank you all for your your attention and time