 Hello everyone, I'm Hidetoharashima from Japan. Today I will present on course sharing facilitated by learning tools interoperability tongue twister or LTI, better known as LTI. Sorry to say my research partner Mr. Tom Ross and couldn't make it down to Sydney today. So I'm alone. Anyways, Tom and I have been engaged in a lot of projects. And Tom and I have common desire or needs that is to link moodle size together for various purposes. For example, we want to share resources between each other. We wanted to realize online communication and collaborations between students studying at different educational institutions. Or we wanted to have group instructions of teachers, team teaching, or grade transfer. We want to transfer our grades to each other's moodle sites. So in order to achieve these goals, we've been using moodle networking or Mnet for several years. In most cases around the world, moodle is usually used as separated and isolated situation like this. But if we link these separated moodles together, we can have a power of linked LMSs. This is much powerful and sophisticated than just individual moodle sites. So we've been doing a variety of Mnet activities since 2010. These are some of the projects we have been doing. But around the year 2014, moodle headquarters decided not to support Mnet anymore. That was a shock to us. What? What should we do without Mnet? We can't do all these activities. So we started to look for another tool to network moodles. And we found more sophisticated way of linking moodle sites together. That is LTI. At that time, LTI was a third party plug-ins, but now with moodle 3.0 up, moodle LTI has been incorporated into the core of moodle. So we started using moodle LTI, but for those of you who do not know what LTI is about, well it's an industry standard proposed by IMS Global Learning Consortium and it allows objects to be published and consumed across different LMSs. And this uses a secure link to an external tool and it supports cross-platform integration between different online learning environments such as moodle to Blackboard or vice versa, moodle to edX or moodle and moodle. So these different LMSs can be linked, connected to each other as if they were just one system. Isn't that great? Now we just fell in love with this LTI thing. So in a nutshell, advantages of LTI over MNET are, it's a more secure networking system and activity grays are automatically transferred to your local courses from a distant provider server and it's a cross-platform linking. It makes cross-platform linking possible. It's a great system. And we set up a LTI provider server and both Tom and I let our students get connected to this LTI provider. Then started doing activities such as this, Grand Canyon Project. Here, students from two different schools competed against each other by proposing the best possible travel plan to the Grand Canyon and these students peer evaluated each other and these peer evaluated grades or marks are transferred to our own local grade book. Such as this, these grades comes from the LTI server and it's embedded inside our local grade book. So we are very satisfied, now we are very happy with this thing by sharing one activity through LTI. But we are not perfectly satisfied. Activity sharing is simple and easy, but we wanted to see how a whole course can become an LTI project and shared between different Moodle insights, I mean Moodle institutions. And also we wanted to have greater control of student behaviors and progress through the course. In order to do this, we have to become a course manager. So we started our course sharing project for 2016 and we designed a shared remote course which is consistent of these four components, one pre-questionnaire and one lesson on TOEIC activities. TOEIC means English proficiency test which is very big in Japan and two forum discussions and one post-questionnaire. This is the design of the course. And the beef of the course is the lesson part which consists of vocabulary lessons and warm-up activity and textbook lessons and practice tests and all these grades are accumulated into the total course grades. And this is how the course looks, okay. Daily life activities, daily life is the topic of this lesson. We did two subsequent shared discussion forums. This forum is a shared forum to school students get together inside one forum and discussed and evaluated and expressed their opinions together. And this is the second shared discussion on drug sales regulations. Why drug sales? Because one school major in pharmacy and the other school major in economics. So we found the common ground and we had a very excited discussion. And this is the breakdown of the course, great book. Questionnaire 20% and TOIC study 40% and discussions total 40% all together 100% by simple weighted means. And we confirmed that this whole course achievement, grades are reflected back to our local Moodle great book. Moodle great book. This is Tom's grade book. And these are all different activities that Tom is giving to his students. But this here, this one column is coming from a shared course, which is provided by LTI. And as you can see here, the course grade are behaving as if it is just one item in the whole local grade book. This is the beauty of using LTI. So what all these imply are, it was found that LTI works well with not only activity sharing, but the whole course sharing as well. By sharing a course, a team of teachers can give instructions and supports to all the participating learners simultaneously and have control over student behaviors throughout the course. So this opens up to the possibility of team teaching across the universe. And also it makes possible for learners to exploit courses from different LMSs. So we can exploit courses offered in Blackboard or edX. And we can utilize these courses and the grades are boom transferred into your course as just a part of your course. And students shared course grades automatically fed back to the grade book of local course consumer sites as one grade item with preferred waiting. So if you want to give 30% to this course grades, you can set a waiting as 30%. Or if you want the course to be 20% of your own course, you can do that. You can change waiting as much as you want, the way you want, whatever the way you want. And lastly, it is a much easier and more sophisticated solution than sharing courses using a course sharing hub system. Many of you know Moodle Hub or hub courses where you upload your course and then find another course and download into your Moodle. It's cumbersome, it takes time and trouble. But by using LTI, you can so easily exploit and utilize courses offered in different places, remote places. And your students will enjoy collaboration and exchange with students who are living far away from your place. Thank you very much.