 Hello. I'm back. It's great to be here. Thank you Fiona. Fiona is here at Moodle HQ and based in Brisbane. I'm very glad we're doing this online. It's actually better that we're doing this online. I think we really have a chance to push what we do, which is online learning together. So we'll be learning together, not only by listening to presentations but by doing it, by using Moodle together with video conferencing. This is the first time that Moodle headquarters has run a online Moodle moot though, a fully online moot. In the chat there we were saying there was some before a few years ago. There was something called the iMoot that was run by one of our Moodle partners. We took part in it. We have some big plans to really get good at this. Our events team are learning from this one. You'll probably see the website and everything improving even during these two days. We are aiming at having a global Moodle moot, which will be obviously worldwide, running over something like a week in July. That will be multilingual, multicultural, people from all around the world. We really want to have a very exciting, huge, big conference. This is what I love about that is that it's an opportunity for you to meet the Moodleers in the rest of the world and for them to meet you. Those of you who come here to the Indian focused event, when it might have been travel to say Barcelona would have been out of the question before. Let's get really, really good at online events altogether. I have a lot of things happening right now. You may have seen that during the last some weeks, if you're following our socials, that we've increased the number of registered Moodle sites by a whole half again. It was 100,000. It's now like 160,000. That's just registered sites. The whole world is looking at online learning. Something like 92% of the world's school children and schools are offline. They're closed. I know it's the same in India as everywhere else, that a lot of people are suddenly going online. In most cases, there's not a lot of experience. Right into technologies, they're thinking, oh, I need to replicate what I'm doing in a classroom and they're jumping straight into video like this. Well, video is one part, but as you know, if you've been using Moodle, there are many, many other aspects to online collaboration. That's our job as Moodleers to explain the history of what we've developed. It's important for people to realise that people's time is valuable. All of our time is valuable. As much as we all want to help everybody, the idea that people's time should be free is not a good idea. This is a kind of a slavery idea. People's time should never be free. We should all be paid for our work. Everyone agrees on that. It doesn't stop when we come to online learning that if you're teaching online, you should be paid to be teaching online. If you're providing a service online, you should be paid for that service. Where Moodle is very different from anything else out there that's very popular is that we give away the software. The software is free. The intellectual property that we've created is something that anybody can download and use. That's the strength of Moodle and the whole open-source idea is that you as a general user, anybody who wants to teach online has choices. You can choose to pay yourself to do the work of running the site. You can choose someone else to do the work of running the site and doing those things. You can host it on a service. You can host it yourself. You have these options and you can even switch options. That's the kind of message that I'm talking about in many conversations that I'm having over the past couple of months especially because there's a lot of this.com or that.com saying, oh, we can do it all for free for six months and then you start paying and then you're locked into those services. That's not, I don't think, very good for education. Welcome to the Moodle. Let's get into it. I have some slides and a bit of a presentation and I'll just take you through what's new. I'm very happy to have questions during this. Just type them in the chat there and I'll answer them along the way if I can. Otherwise we'll tackle them at the end. I think we have about an hour from now nearly and then we'll move on to the next sessions. So thanks for coming. Good to see so many familiar names and faces here too. Really wish I was seeing you in person and we were having doing some bonga at a party but like that first fantastic moot we had in Mumbai was the second one. But yeah, next time. All right. So you know the Moodle mission. It's always good to restate that that we're about empowering educators. We are for the educators. We are supporting education systems. We are, of course, it's about learning. It's about students but we are not a project that's trying to go straight to students. Yeah, we can all bonga later at the end of the talk and do it now if you want. So our values don't change like values shouldn't. We value education. We value openness. We value integrity. We value the respect and respecting different cultures and languages and lastly innovation. We want to promote innovation and yeah it's the whole thing about the Moodle project is that Moodle headquarters we're a relatively small company and that the community around us is innovating a lot. I'm seeing a couple of people saying they're having trouble with the audio. I assume that's just a couple of people. Make sure that your browser is set up to allow audio and if you're on say a Mac or some platforms you need to maybe allow your browser to use audio. There was also, as someone mentioned, a button at the bottom to join the audio. It's like a little phone icon. So what we're trying to do is build a platform and everything we're doing is about building a platform. I'm sorry to keep stopping but we're having some audio problems. Can anybody hear me okay? Is it just a few people? Ah okay okay so can stay home need to stay home. Now very strongly we believe education is a basic human right and this is part of what the UNESCO world governments most governments believe. However it's very often not treated that way in practice and it's something I want to get to towards the end particularly how we can really push this point that education is a basic human right not something you need to pay for or you need to be lucky enough to be in the right area. To support that we need really strong foundations for Moodle that we can trust for education rather that we can trust and it's very important that we can trust those foundations. I'm going to use an analogy here. Imagine we're living in Star Wars right now. I'm sure most of you are familiar with Star Wars. Imagine we lived on a planet in a Star Wars universe. This is our little planet one of many floating in the universe and there is a galactic empire that's trying to destroy the planet right now and that is these giant profit obsessed companies. These are the ones who are creating have created you know not intentionally but through the way they're structured in their actions have filled the world with plastic for example have caused climate change by putting things in the atmosphere have wrecked agriculture by patenting seeds and genetics trying to control communications are trying to control education you know and to make profits. These are companies that have a board that is 100% focused on profits and when you have that focus over your mission or when that is your mission and I've seen many companies whose mission is you know to make a billion dollars this year or something then that doesn't mean you're supporting basic human rights that you are going to be doing the best for all of us you're going to be doing the best for the owners of that company. You know just as a joke here you know maybe maybe Blackboard is duff maybe maybe a structure could be Kylo Ren because these are these are profit focused companies largely and I don't want to pick on them really there is a whole culture a huge culture that is getting into education as well but is beyond education and particularly in the internet world there is a very strong profit control kind of motivation that I find really worrying and to me there is a war kind of brewing right now what's already it's already happening between the people who see and believe in the common good and the people who are trying to control things and profit from it and these are the sort of companies that I do not think should be controlling education and when I say education it's not just schools and universities it's everything it's social media it's how we get our news it's how we talk to each other it's all of that is all education this is we're having education right now even if you're watching this on YouTube you know presumably you're hopefully learning something so you know I like to see Moodle as part of the resistance and there are a lot of really let's say the good guys here who are you know the open source initiative creative commons open education global open education resources in its many forms UNESCO it's a it's a it's a Moodle group but they're fighting for what's right they're fighting for this idea that there's a commons that we all share that we're all part of the same planet and that we that the best thing to do is to be working together and so you know maybe maybe maybe Moodle can be Luke Skywalker I don't know you know in my from my point of view obviously we're the main character I know we're not but like we're definitely part of the group and I just like the orange lightsaber so I thought I'd use it so here we are this is how many universities and higher education are using Moodle around the world actually this is a slightly old diagram I'm sorry I got this from an older presentation there's an updated one from this year where we're actually at 67 percent so two-thirds of higher education in the world uses Moodle it's updated because the new version includes the Middle East and some other parts of the world that are not on this one so we have a lot of supporters and a lot of you are here right now this is a picture from our global moot in Barcelona last year which was a fantastic event and really great to have we had people there from dozens of countries around the world especially great for me because I had met most of them on my travels around the globe and finally they were all in one room and they were talking to each other and I was looking at all these people coming up with great ideas together and it was just amazing like all conferences but this was a really truly special event so I hope we'll have them again but I'm very glad also that we're having them online more and more there'll be less impact on global warming and just less your resources use in general we also had a pretty good party actually as well so that's the global moot party was a really memorable one we had a great one so let me talk about the things we're working on the different projects give you a bit of an update there are nine major areas that we work on and I'll go through them a bit that's okay Chirab I'm I can keep an eye on the chat I'm trying not to be too distracted but so maybe I can if you have questions absolutely that'll be great so let's talk about Moodle the LMS so we used to just call it Moodle we now try and call it Moodle LMS to distinguish it from all the other Moodle things and that's Moodle core and then there's Moodle plugins as well so we've got a new release coming up we've been working hard on Moodle 3.9 and we've got some really quite exciting work around H5P so we're integrating H5P in Moodle by default you'll be able to create new H5P activities on every Moodle site you'll be able to store them in a central content content bank and share them around your site and it's a very very cool thing if you're not familiar with H5P it's just a really great it's another open source project that allows you to make very interactive content there's improvements to the activity chooser which I'll show you in a minute there is some projects from the Moodle users association there's a Moodle net integration because Moodle net is the other new project being launched and there's some work on the safe exam browser and hundreds of other tiny things as well like most releases so here's just a quick view of the current status of the content bank it lets you add new H5P activities into a central place and then you can go and use them around in your courses because by their nature these content items are very reusable so we have a kind of a new concept in Moodle of the repository of these content items and after H5P we plan to add support for other activities as well so you might have a Moodle resource or even like a glossary or anything else in Moodle that you might want to store and keep to be reused in many places in many courses the activity chooser work it's a really improving interface it's a bigger screen it's clearer to choose the things you use more often if there's particular activities you use all the time you can star them and then pick them at the beginning there there's also some recommended activities and it's just a better cleaner interface designed by the UX team Hamad there's a question about H5P can you use previous activities that have been created absolutely any H5P activity is completely compatible so you can just migrate them into core they won't be pushed into central into that central content bank automatically you'll need to do that but nothing will break that you've done before this is a bit of work from the Moodle users association to fix the participants page with a better filter so if you have a very large class sometimes you want to just find a subset of students this lets you search by role by group by lots of things and it's a very comprehensive way to just zoom into the students that you're interested in at a given moment there's a new course copy interface so to copy a course to another course there's a very quick way of doing it there were other ways of doing it before but this is a really nice quick way of doing it a lot of people wanted to see that the the MUA chose that voted this as a as one of their their priorities so it was done and the Moodle net integration so there's two parts to this Moodle net I'll get to is a social network that we're building uh when you're adding an activity or resource you're now able to go to Moodle net from the activity chooser and um you find things and then the second part is you want to push them back to your Moodle site so there's a add to Moodle button that lets you send it back and um this will be very exciting once the content builds up out there as well now I mentioned that Moodle and this includes the plugins there's over 1600 different plugins in the plugins database um these are additional features a lot of you are probably developers have had things in this database um we have a very exciting new thing that we're working on um there is a problem right now which where maybe at a moot like this I often go to a Moodle moot and I'll see someone presenting on a new plugin they've created and wow look at this new functionality that I've made and a lot of teachers go wow I want that and they go back to their institution and they say can I have this plugin and the administrator will say no we're not installing these third party plugins or you know they it's going to take a long time to check it or approve it and um and that's that makes sense they don't want to be installing a lot of third party code on their servers without some you know checking and so as a result the teacher misses out and isn't able to use these features so we have a new thing coming that the Moodle plugins service this will be next year where it was starting work on it now-ish and we hope it'll be ready by next year what this will allow is that all of the plugins in the Moodle plugins database will be available by subscription something like imagine it the the plugin store that I showed before the plugins database is like a store and you might have a you could have one subscription that allowed you access to everything or maybe you just say I just want one thing and the plugins service allows a teacher to add it to their course directly because the actual code will be hosted on a cloud service and by subscribing to it they're able to bring it into their course for students it'll look like it's part of the site part of the course but actually that little piece is running on a cloud service somewhere kind of invisibly uh and it will use LTI standard and some other things to um to bring that into Moodle transparently and any grades that happen will get into the grade book and so on so this is a service there is there are servers that need to run there's people who need to maintain them um so there might be free stuff we haven't worked out these details yet um but there there will also be most likely some subscriptions and we'll make them as reasonable as we possibly can because we need to pay for the servers and people to do this stuff as I mentioned at the beginning but a key thing about this is we want to pay the developers so developers should have a percentage of this just like you do with an app store so your google play android store or apple app store a percentage goes to the service a percentage goes to the developer and this way we can create a a revenue stream for developers so developers get paid for their work and if developers are being paid to maintain these modules these plugins then they're motivated to fix it to update it to improve it to support the users because now they have a direct connection with the with the users and we can really build a place for developers to to thrive which means better software better plugins and so on now it's a requirement as i was talking about the advantages of open source it's a requirement that all the plugins in this service will also be available as open source so you have the choice you can download the plugin as you do now and install it if you can if you want to um and if you're not able to there is a cheap easy way to subscribe to that service and get that plugin directly yeah it's a SAS model there but for Moodle plugins and i think this will really open up the whole plugins thing it'll be you know any teacher you know they might say well yeah i really want this feature my admin won't install it but i can pay you know a couple of dollars a month or something to get that plugin and i can use it straight away and they don't need the admin's permission and they'll be able to use it in their course so i think this is going to really be amazing for the Moodle ecosystem in general so yeah very very happy about that so that's on the roadmap all right the next thing i want to talk about is Moodle workplace if you're here inside the big blue button room that we're using you would have got here through the the events.moodle.com website which is running on Moodle workplace so you are using Moodle workplace it's Moodle as before but it has some special workplace plugins we're not using much of them on the events site they have a lot of features such as support for multi-tenancy that is one thing we're using so the events website will have a a tenant for every Moodle conference going forward and but all running on one code base but you can also have things like organization hierarchies certifications report builder there's a interface for building reports by dragging and dropping this will come into Moodle 4.0 as well Moodle LMS 4.0 certifications is actually coming into i don't know sorry that's something else it has programs so programs you can have one course you can say sorry the student must do this course before they can do this course and then they have to choose one of these two courses and then they can do these three courses and then and so on and you build a program of Moodle courses and it's all automated and there's a really good feature amazingly useful feature called dynamic rules so for a particular site you can program things to happen automatically so for example if a student completes this course then put them into this cohort or or send them a message or send a message to their manager or you know all these kinds of little things you might want to do they're possible dynamic rules and you can kind of program the operation of the site and we found that really useful when setting up the new Moodle educator certificate which I'll explain in a minute and we're using the workplace site for that very very cool so there's also some new features like appointments there's re-certification these are some new things that have just been landing recently soon you'll be able to share courses across tenants so you can have well no actually you can do it now you can have a course that is one version of the course and then it appears in the different tenants and when you update the original course all the tenants get it as well so you can have that working across a lot of different sites you can have reports for different audiences and so on now this is still only available through Moodle partners and there are two ways that you the Moodle partners can get it we most Moodle partners or all Moodle partners have access to workplace through Moodle cloud so we're hosting it on Moodle cloud and the partners can provide that to anybody through by being resellers basically and we have premium partners who have access to the code and are able to take it modify it hack it do whatever they need to do to make sites and that's more useful for larger installations so we already have some workplace sites for there's a new one that's just being announced at the moment for example in the UK the NHS is using Moodle workplace for their training that's the national health service there's the you know large installations like that are finding workplace particularly useful now the the reason why we're not just throwing it out there open source is this is a very this is part of our sustainability part of the part of a reason to be a partner part of a reason to be a premium partner as well it with more partners we're more sustainable we can hire more developers we can make better software we can put out more Moodle LMS you know in the end Moodle LMS is the core our core product and we need to always be looking at how we can grow to make that better and better and better for everybody our plan with workplaces that these extra features will go into LMS over time so right in a couple of months you'll be the new certificate model will be module will be available for anybody on the plugins database and in the next release of Moodle 4.0 the report builder will be included and so on so it's we're using the workplace model to help build cool things for Moodle LMS as well now the next thing is Moodle app now there's been some really a lot of changes there recently it's really evolving very nicely it has very strong support for everything a student needs to do and quite a lot of what a teacher needs to do we also have the desktop app that runs on laptops and desktops windows mac and linux and we do provide a branded version as a service so we will put the work in to create the interface to look like your university together with you and so quite a lot of people have taken that up and that's a service that we provide but recently you may have seen I don't know why this is here is a second screen by Bikeson recently we kind of changed the plans and the services around the app and I wanted to explain that a little bit as you know a lot of people use Moodle and you know 99% of Moodle users don't pay for anything they just take Moodle and use it for free and that's fine that's that's why we're open source and how we work but we wanted to provide another way for them to help support Moodle with a very small payment now I realize in India these numbers are a little higher than they are in other parts of the world and that's something we're working on but the these are generally pretty small amounts compared to the budget of an institution and and so on so what we've done is the free app has 100% functionality in terms of everything that the student needs to do works there are a couple of small limits one is that only two courses can be taken offline at a time per device and the second one that you can only have 50 active devices to get push notifications per site so this should not affect small sites or individual teachers at all they use the free app it won't experience any change at all if you need more notifications or more offline courses for the students there's a pro and a premium plan these are per year so for 500 euros you get it's unlimited completely unlimited and what we're going to be doing actually is adding even more uh things onto here as well so we're we're now able to let you customize the appearance have I got a slide about this I don't think I do just by going to our new app.moodle.com website you can customize how the app looks like through the web page so you don't need CSS skills or any customization you can actually customize the app directly through that service and so that's the sorts of things you get here now if there are institutions that are nonprofits or really deserving and cannot pay these things you can apply and say look we just can't cover it so we have a way to apply for that on that website and and we'll give you a free premium site the other thing is if you're using a moodle partner you get premium automatically if you're using moodle cloud you get premium automatically so quite a lot of our users will be able to use premium by default automatically and um yeah so this is just a way to you know the many moodle sites that are out there in the world who have never contributed back to the moodle project this is a little way we can have them contributing back and help us grow as an organization all right moodle net um so moodle net our social network uh I talked about it at the last mood in India I'm pretty sure this has been a dream of mine for years and years um this is the third attempt at moodle net we've had two iterations before very simplistic ones for this one we had a proper team behind it a lot of design and a lot of work uh and we are building a social network with two main or three main um goals so the first one is as an educator you can join communities of other educators who are thinking the same thing who are working on the same subject the same language at the same area the same level um and what you do together is you curate collections of the best resources that are out there so this is all completely free uh and if you're teaching bungra dancing uh to people who speak portuguese you know maybe there's five people in the world doing that they can find each other and collect those videos that make sense or collect those resources that make sense for that subject um in a place well you know even just they just links to other places where they exist now you can find them a group together and if you want to put them in your course you just go add to my moodle click and it pushes it into your moodle site so for the next bungra teacher who comes along in portugal they are going to easily find this and they'll find great resources so they can start their teaching straight away and i think we need all need to see more bungra um i realize i'm using this a lot i didn't mean to now um the third thing is that you can have a profile there so if you're a person who's contributing a lot to the network um you can build your reputation as someone in that area um perhaps you're you're running some communities there and um we would love this to be a kind of a network social profile as an educator that is more it's better than something like linkedin right linkedin is sort of business um facebook also you know sort of all kinds of other stuff this is just for education and we would love to see educators making that profile like the center of their online identity at least for the the teaching in that particular subject um and we start seeing people having more followers and more um uh reputation so we can really find great teachers now in the world for each subject and and that will uh you know help everybody to to find out who those people are so here's a few screenshots of moodle net um this is going to be released in may which is next month as the first beta which is pretty complete and um you can see the interface is nice and simple this is not based on moodle code this is a whole new code that um uses a different language even than moodle uh uses something called elixir and the really key feature is that it's distributed there is not one big central site there are lots of sites uh you know you can install one and join the network and host your own communities and your own accounts on there and because they're all joined together it all appears to behave like one big social network uh and that's uh we've written we've made this very deliberately because we don't want there to be a central point of control or failure that uh we we want to build things less like facebook or whatsapp or uh google or microsoft or these things and more like email right so email just works right it doesn't everyone uses email and it works and it's worked for 30 years nobody controls email nobody can take away your email it's always going to be here and that's what we want this to be a a distributed social network that will be here for a long time and if you we're using a standard to do this something called activity pub which comes from the worldwide web consortium um or w3c and this standard is is all about streaming information across the internet so publishing activity um and uh it it means that moodle net because it uses this standard is even compatible with other social networks that are being built and information can stream backwards and forwards so it's quite powerful and um we have one of the one of the first social networks built around this this standard let me talk a little bit about moodle education um we have a new moodle educated certificate that again we've been working on for about a year and a half two years um it's due to be launched in a few weeks uh next month uh you if you want you'll be able to take the moodle educated certification this is not a training course for how to use moodle this is a certification where you can prove that you are a very good online educator some of these things use moodle as examples but these 22 skills are actually general skills about you know what is your professional engagement how do you engage with other teachers uh collaboration with them maybe on moodle net or other places um the reflective practice things like that so how do you select digital resources in your courses and how do you create them how do you modify them how do you protect them um assessment strategies uh teaching and learning the actual nuts and bolts of how you operate a course and do that stuff how do you empower your learners you know things like accessibility inclusion um how do you engage them and that stuff and finally how do you make your learners have digital competence as well so how do you help them be literate with this technology and licenses and things like that how do you get them using things responsibly um and uh you know solving problems so this moodle educated certificate uh is it looks a little bit like this it's just been updated and it's got um sorry I just had some lunch delivered to me um we uh we hope to see a lot of these in the world we're hoping there'll be at least a thousand by the end of the year and um that we think it's going to be a valuable thing to hold in your portfolio as a that you've demonstrated um that you are able to do all these things um and proven it so um this will be initially available through our moodle partners again so they do training usually and then the certification as a second step um if you already know it you can skip the training go straight to certification uh the um we will also later in the year be um allowing institutions to sign up for the mec as facilitators which means they'll be like the partners in in a way they'll be able to run the training for their own institution so if you have a lot of teachers and you want them all to go through this um it'll be more effective to be trained by us to run that and then uh at a kind of a uh in a fixed group way and then um and train your own staff and and certify them so we have a lot of moodle partners around the world we've got three moodle partners here in India and uh these these are them they've been the same for a while so they're all here nice to see you everyone and uh thanks for supporting the moodle moot and they're a big part of what makes all of this possible and how we're even able to make all this stuff in the first place um i'm not sure where that slide is there looks old um so let me talk about the future a little bit um where are we going and uh what are the things that we want to be thinking about uh i mentioned we're here on the planet what is the future of this planet i think we've all had a huge wake-up call in the last few months that something as tiny as a virus is able to knock every economy in the world backwards um and i think it's a good wake-up call for humanity that this is a very small planet that we are all connected that um we're not um the superpowers we thought we were uh that we we're connected with the rest of the planet and the rest of the the world and the universe that's uh um and i of all the countries in the world i think i don't need to explain this to india um as as one of the most spiritual places in the world but uh i think this has been a really good wake-up call for uh for many people and we need to take this energy i mean i was all the stuff i'm going to talk about stuff i was already talking about but i feel it's more important now than ever that we really think about the future and how we set things up um so we look look now at what sort of things have been happening in the past few years you know the world is shrinking um there is more data real and fake everywhere so if you're talking about education then you want to learn things you're looking at things i want to learn if you don't know whether it's real or fake if you don't know if there's any truth or behind it or whatever it gets scary and you can see uh the viruses of information uh now traveling across our networks um there are people who support all kinds of positions and believe all kinds of crazy things and you can just look at the the junk floating around on facebook or whatsapp to to to see you know what a problem it can be and a lot of people just read things and believe it and you can see what's happening in the us for example with their elections and and how they're influenced through social media so this is a problem and last year actually uh and there's a lot more artificial intelligence around and this stuff is getting smarter and it's getting harder to tell from um what we ourselves are making um a face like this on a screen is getting very easy for a machine to create i might maybe i'm not here i could be generated by a computer by now this is be very it's easily possible my voice can be duplicated my my picture can be duplicated in real time and this could be completely fake um it isn't i promise you and if you find some ways to prove it in the chat but it could be and in the future this is going to happen more and more uh last year there was a an ai released that can you can give it one sentence and it can complete the article it can write a whole article based on one sentence and when you read the article it looks like a person wrote it but some of the facts in there are wrong uh there's just junk but when you read it it makes a perfect sense as something a human might have written so you could point this ai at the internet and say uh make 10 times the amount of content on the internet uh you know produce whole websites produce uh encyclopedias um and it would just do it and and when we when the world is flooded with this kind of fake information it gets even harder and harder how do we distinguish right um and this really affects education um there is a corporate influence over news and government i already talked about that before but a lot of news is starting to become less researched by reporters who dig into a story and run around uh interviewing and cross checking and opening filing cabinets and digging up papers and they're not doing that kind of research based journalism anymore they're just retweeting the articles basically they they hear something they publish it just like the social media and um and when those articles can start influencing stock prices uh there's there's actually incentive to start twisting the news to start changing the news and when you see governments that are directly connected around the world many of them are supported and funded by corporate interests um then this whole picture starts getting really bad and um with all of the issues where we're wrestling they're getting very very complicated you know i could say you how do you fix education in india that's a huge complicated difficult difficult problem no one person can even start to think about it like it's there are so many levels and so many so many actors and so many parts to that problem that even the government doesn't know how to do it like it's it's a very very very hard problem and um everyone is struggling so the only way out of that um is by improving um and solving these sort of problems by the way i mean here are the bigger problems as well right these are the SDGs the only way to to solve those things is through quality of education we need to focus on the quality of education what type of people are we creating through education systems through formal education um and if we have a very large percentage of well educated people we have a better chance um a lot of the best a lot of the worst stuff just won't happen because we've got people who know this they're dumb ideas so quality um so i i have this idea that that universities should model a better world there is a chance here for universities in the in the pursuit of quality to become like a research community truly that the students are part of the staff are part of and we research the real problems in the world why couldn't a university try new forms of democracy for example most universities are the size of a small city so in that there you could start experimenting you could experiment with um you know how does the university use energy how can we get our engineers in the university hacking the energy problems of the university and so on right so you you start having a model and once they're modeling that when those students move out into the real world they can help fix those things too now i'm running out of time so i'm going to speed up a bit people say you can't change these things right universities can't change we can't change education systems um this is the alternative the alternative is that these big companies are going to move in um and control this stuff and we know that's that they have an influence um and they have a desire to make themselves rich so they're going to influence us to make themselves rich and that's not going to help the problems so the best way to do this is to get people working together get educators and students working and learning together and all together all of those uh universities and schools here together are much bigger than any company on earth so how do we do that we can do it with open technology and communities that's how moodle spread around the world so i have this um um a concept that i want i'm talking a lot about at the moment and it's open education technology open ed tech so moodle is one example of that there are many other examples uh in the world this is one you may know edu roam is a little project uh run out of uh europe um there's a couple of people on it they've built a system that enables anybody in these countries if you have a wi-fi password in one of them on at a university when you travel across the world your wi-fi password works there as well this is a really amazing piece of open ed tech that everyone is working together to build and now we have a worldwide service that we can all share um another thing about this another open ed tech example of for the common good is that last november uh unesco made a open education resource recommendation uh this is a uh every government in the world except the us because they're not a member of unesco but everyone else all the all the ministers of education unanimously agreed to support open education resources rather than proprietary textbooks and proprietary information so this is huge this is like the whole world saying we really want to make this stuff free we want to let people download it we want to let people remix it and share it and update it and change it and so this opens up the the the textbooks the knowledge the the content side of things and it makes international cooperation much easier so um last november we had an open ed tech conference uh where i brought together a lot of people uh we we had a lot of discussions for two days um to discuss all these issues we had people from open source companies as well as universities and other organizations and um we came up with um after two days of brainstorming uh and hard work and a small party um or two we we came up with these 12 principles um of what open ed tech should be now i can't go through them now i haven't got a lot of time but if you go to open ed tech global uh you can find them there and we have some focus areas what we're trying to do together is we're creating a foundation um that will everyone will be members of and we're going to work as like a working groups around building a global education cloud so imagine edu roam but instead of just being for wi-fi passwords you can put software in there and you can put data in there so you can um share uh say uh you know bet like badges global recognition of learning we could actually start building global situation global systems to recognize learning um we can work on interoperability together so let's make sure that moodle and big blue button and all the other open source projects work really well together uh and so put effort into making those integrations super strong um and some other projects as well i'm running out of time so look at the website um there is actually a moodle site for discussion we really love you to be part of that and help join in um this will be updated soon with some new structure because we've been meeting and changing as we build this out so if if we go back to star wars um and the resistance rebels that i talked about uh i would say i would love for open ed tech to be like the jedi council right this is the the people making the technology infrastructure uh working together to create something big something open that everybody can benefit from uh and uh as we know and then we can build a better world so i'll finish there really very pleased to talk to you thank you so much for your time and um and coming to the moot uh i'm gonna stay online with all the other presentations over today and tomorrow and joining with you let's let's have a great moodle moot and um thank you thank you thank you for being part of the moodle community and thank you for supporting and and helping all of this stuff um happen