 Hello, hello, hello. Are we on? I hope so. Welcome to the global Moodle Moods. I'm getting some lag, I think, but it's, so I'm not really sure if I'm online yet. Am I online? I'm on. Great. Hello, and welcome to the first, very first Moodle Mood Global Online for 2020. I'm Martin Duggy. I'm some very happy to welcome everybody. We have a packed five days coming up ahead. And this is the very beginning of it. So I think we've got all the technical bugs worked out. But if there's any little hiccups, bear with us. It's the first time we've done this and we're really looking forward to the whole experience as I'm sure you are as well. We have over 1200 people so far registered and people are still coming in. So that makes this the biggest Moodle Mood that we've ever had. And I want to thank everybody who's registered and come and joined in fun. We have many, many key community members here as people from the Moodle community from all around the world from every continent except Antarctica, I think, at least that I know of. If anybody's from Antarctica, feel free to jump in the forums and let us know. We have as well as the everybody from Moodle headquarters is tuning in. This week we've given everyone leave to be part of the conference and be available and be part of and listening to all of these sessions that we have. Many of you are teachers and educators and that's the focus of what Moodle's all about. Many of you develop on the Moodle platform, your developers and programmers, all kinds of technical aspects to make this software project run. Many of you make a living from Moodle in some way. And I'm proud of the Moodle ecosystem, the Moodle economy that we have that keeps this open source project alive and keeping it as completely free and open software as it should be, as most software should be. We have many of you are actually part of Moodle partner companies and directly contributing towards the ecosystem and helping financially with this conference. So thank you very much. And the rest of the sponsors, we have 20. Please go and visit them in our sponsor area and I'll go through all of that a bit later. But thank you for helping. All of you and you have a good connection to the Moodle project. To me, the people who've come to this conference, simply by coming or being part of it, you've shown that you are part of the core of the Moodle project and what we're all about. So I'm really excited to hang out with you to be part of this group because we've got a busy week and a really interesting week ahead of us as we learn and work and teach together around the Moodle platform. Let me talk a little bit about the program. It's amazing program. So here are some of the speakers, some of you who are speaking or might see yourselves. 150 presentations over the five days and they're spread out over as many time zones as we could manage. So we have times to suit everybody. And if you miss anything, you can always catch up through the recordings, everything's being streamed and recorded. There'll be up to four presentations happening at once in different rooms between it'll be different numbers, but it could be as many as four. Right now there's just the one and then there'll be different numbers. There is a big theme through the conference. As I was going through the sessions, I noticed that at least 50% of you mentioned COVID-19. And I think the coronavirus that we're all experiencing and the pandemic and all the fallout happening from that is the theme of this conference. Here's some statistics from the peak of the pandemic where we had in April, nearly 92% of all learners in the world were affected by school closures. Moodle and our platform in our community, we've been here for nearly 20 years. We have a lot of experience. We had software that was already in place. So existing Moodle users saw a huge bump in usage and everything had to scale up. But there was also a lot of people who didn't have online learning yet and were looking at all the different platforms and all the software going on and rushing online. And Moodle was a big part of that as well. And there's going to be a lot of stories through the next five days of people talking about what they've been doing and how they've been coping. And I'm really excited to be seeing some of that. Please try and see as many sessions as you can. It's quite easy to watch them, obviously. I'll point out that they're not all in English. We are a global project and this is a global Moodle move. So we have sessions in five languages. We have the main, there's two English sessions running all the time. And then every day we have one other language session running as well. So it's Chinese. We have French, German and Spanish. So tune in, ask questions in the forums. Be part of the, you know, some of these sessions that are in languages that are not your own are going to be fascinating to watch. I know I've always enjoyed them when I travel. You ask those people questions in the forums. Everyone will be happy to answer and text is easy to translate. So we can talk quite easily in the forums using translations. You'll also see a series of mindfulness sessions happening in the quiet room. I recommend everyone try at least one. But mindfulness is something that applies to everyone everywhere and you can apply it in your own life. So give that a go as well. So let's have a little talk about the site. We have a Moodle based site that is using Moodle workplace. So this is Moodle workplace is our Moodle version that we've used for mostly organizational training. We aren't actually using a lot of the workplace features. It's a pretty standard vanilla Moodle with the exception of the page we're looking at right now, which is this a block showing the program. But everything else is pretty much standard Moodle with very small tweaks. Even in workplace, we're only using a few of these dynamic rules, which is a feature of a unique workplace, which will be coming to core in the future. And it's a standard theme with maybe 20 lines of CSS. The program block is what ties things together. It links users and courses. It auto creates calendar items. It's auto creating discussions in the forums. We've just kept it really simple. And with the because it's standard, you could do a conference site like this using Moodle as well. It's not too hard. There's many actually many more Moodle features we could have used. And we didn't we didn't use them yet trying to keep it simple. But and we know the site's not perfect. But it's it's it's something that we can easily improve on. And we're being we're going to we will be improving on it for future conferences. And I think Moodle can make a really good conference platform. And I think we're really going to kick the tires on it, so to speak over the next week. And we're going to get great ideas for how to improve it every time. There's some ideas from the community still to add. The Moodle Association of Japan has some great tools for running conferences. We've always run a conference on Moodle tools. So we'll be looking at those and doing that too. But for now, we have a pretty good a pretty good platform for the week. So let me take you through it a little bit there. The key design thing the way to think about this site is imagine a real conference center. So imagine you're in a big building and we're at a physical conference and there are rooms that you can go into. So there are five main rooms, the education room, the technology room. And there's the Chinese room, the French room, the German room and the Spanish room. And these are like a continuous room. The present the presenters and people will just keep coming in and out. And we'll have a continuous stream from them going the whole time. So that's the education room. This is the technology room. And you can see there there were different links for different days. So you can go back to previous days. The Chinese room is just the stream is only on today, but the forums open all week. And that's the same for the French room. And you'll see photographs on all these pages. All the photographs used on these pages are from physical Moodle Moods. So this is one from that happened in Vienna in the German room. And this is a photo from one of the Spanish Moods and so on. Now, as well as these major rooms, and I'll explain how they work in detail two in a minute, we also have a networking cafe. And that's where all of the social activities are happening. So anything that's not related to one of the sessions, it's all in here. And the main thing you'll see at the top is sort of enter the cafe to go and start socialising. Before we go there, let's down the bottom here, there's a cup of coffee. So feel free to pick up a cup of coffee on your way in. You might want to actually get a real cup of coffee to take with you. But on this room down below, there's a game running. We've added some gamification using a plugin called Stash. So there are lots of things to click and find and sort of look around the activities and you'll discover the game as you go. But when you enter the cafe, you'll see this layout here. And the team have found a really great tool that we can use here for actually meeting each other face to face. So this is what one of the floors look like. I think there's actually eight floors. So there's eight rooms like this. And this is a top-down view of some tables. And you can go and sit down at any of these tables. And if your webcam and your audio are turned on, as soon as you sit down on the table, you'll immediately see all the people on that table and you can have a quick discussion. We can change the names of the tables. We'll experiment with this as we go on, but explore there. And hopefully we can bring that conference experience of when you're running to people and we just have a quick chat with a group that just forms and disappears again. So it's going to be a lot of fun. There's also the sponsor booths we have running, the sponsor area. Each of the sponsors have their own room that they can customize. They have their own presentations, their own activities. And I encourage you to go through. There is a badge you can get. You can collect a badge on every one of these and then you get a super badge for visiting them all. And these are all standard Moodle features. Lastly, yeah, there is a sponsor area. There's also a help desk. If you need any help, go to the help desk area and you can ask there and someone should attend to you pretty quickly. There's also a chat as well if it seems urgent. Now, how do these presentations work? It's a little different from what you might have seen elsewhere. We really wanted to use Big Blue Button. They're our friends. They're also open education technology, just like Moodle. But a Big Blue Button room cannot handle 1,200 people all in one room right now. So we made the choice that only people who are doing presentations can come actually into the Big Blue Button room. And so there is these rooms that only presenters can enter. So you're right now in the room where I'm speaking at the moment. There's a whole lot of presenters here with me. Hi everybody. So I have a live audience here and we can be interactive and I can do a poll or something in a minute. Now, we also have a team that are monitoring the Big Blue Button rooms and streaming it out to YouTube. So every room has that stream. So for most people, the stream is where you can watch. And you're thinking, well, that's a bummer. I'm on watching a stream. How do I get interactive with the session? Well, every discussion has a forum, including this one. So there is a forum link on the program and that forum discussion is a place where you can actually discuss the conference with the whole group in Moodle. We have our team monitoring that forum and if anything comes up there that's interesting, they can push it through into the chat so that I can see it here while we're in the middle of the session. And it's an experimenting phase. We're trying this for the first time this way, but the key reason for it is that using our forum tool like this, you get less of that noisy chat that just scrolls up and disappears. We can use threading. We can type longer things. We can have a more structured conversation, I think with 1,200 people in the forum. And also in the forums, you can also use video and audio. You can record yourself into the forum post. And so I think we can get some very interesting discussions going around every session for the week. So I'm really looking forward to seeing what we all do together as we have a jam in some Moodle forums together. Please, yeah, use those forums before the sessions as well and also after the sessions, so keep it going. You can subscribe to forums individually. Now, what is the big picture for this week? The big picture for this week is the future of Moodle. Nothing less than that. Here we have the core community of Moodle, working together, presenting to each other, learning from each other. We would love, I would love you to think about what works, to think about what doesn't work. What are the priorities for the product Moodle itself? What are the priorities for the software we use that you use? What are the priorities for the services around it, for the direction it's going, for all the other things that make this work? So joining the discussions, be friendly with each other, but ask those hard questions. We need to be asking and discussing the hard questions here. Challenge yourself and others. Think of better ways to do everything. Gather those thoughts, share your ideas, write specs. If you have a great idea for something, write some specifications, get some talking, post some blogs. How can Moodle products really help your situation? What can we all do better? By Friday, by the end of this week, after we've been doing that all week, we'll be really ready to start getting into the design process for Moodle 4.0 and these UX workshops that are running now already and going for the next months, steering us, and that's why we have this picture, towards Moodle 4.0. So that's the big theme of the week. And we really need everybody's guidance on this and to decide our roadmap and our future. Well, that's a lot of background about the conference, but I will just point out that, you know, it really means something, what we're doing. These are recent statistics, and this is just looking at higher education, but you can see Moodle in various continents is the de facto platform for learning management systems in higher ed. And we have two-thirds of the world depending on us. We have a lot of responsibility together. And I really think the world deserves open source platforms and open education technology, and let's give the world the best we can do. So let me take a step back and just give you a bit of a futuristic view. Like, a lot of people are going to present their ideas on the future and talk about their ideas of the future, as I said, and we need to work that out together. So I'm offering a few ideas here into the pot as I've been watching what's happening in the world like you have been, and this is where I'm at. So I think a lot about the sustainable development goals that has been set at the UN level. These 17 big problems. There's been a... There's attention paid to different ones at different times, but these are not changing very rapidly. These are big issues that we face as... not only as human beings, but as a planet because we live on a small planet together. And I think a lot about what is the role of education in here, and I think the role of education is enormous. It's, in fact, one of the biggest things that we can do to impact all of these things. And so the way we conduct education and the way we especially do it online now is critical. And so we really need to be thinking about that. So let's look at some of the broad trends. I've been doing this for a while, decades now, and so have some of you too. And a lot of things come and go. A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same. If you look at who is it doing the educating and who we are educating, our students, we are not changing, right? The brain here is not changing. Human beings are human beings. But our relationship with technology is changing and technology is becoming more and more a part of our lives. For most of us, we're never very far from a computer. It's usually within arm's length. We have internet connection now wherever we go at all times, and that is new. But the brain that handles it is not. So there are some things that are very stable and some things that are changing rapidly. So the two big trends that I really like, and they're not really new, but they're evolving. The first one is this idea of education as collaborative learning. Moodle was always designed as a collaborative learning platform, and that's how we're using it this week. It's a place where a lot of people are empowered to put content into the system to make things for other people to see, and we interact with each other in ways that are not fully predictable at all. Collaborative learning is, if you look at the way our own brain works, a brain is lots of individual cells that are sitting there joining together, and there are waves of electricity passing through those cells, and through this action together, the individual cells, each cell in your body thinks it's alone, thinks it's its own little thing, and it is an independent body, if you like. But when the cells work together, and they work together with energy, passing energy around, they're able to have this much larger effect, and they have waves of effect going through them, and that's what's happening on our internet. You look at the social media, and the way we are operating together, or the way we work together in groups all over the place. We're reading, we're taking in energy, we're writing, we're sharing, we're giving out energy, and as a whole, there are these waves of activity that travel across the social media, almost like electricity, as we kind of think together. Cultures and subcultures and memes and all of that is spreading around, and we are learning and thinking together. We're not intentionally learning in a way that we usually recognize. We're kind of soaking it in, like most culture, we just kind of soak it in, and that kind of culture that's happening, that's very visible now because you can really see it on social media much more than you could when it was happening in villages and people talking to each other there, that it's now inside the computers, and the computers are very much part of that, and the computers are having to drive that faster and faster, and they're even starting to control it. So, as we build technology that gets mixed up with our brains in this collaborative learning space, if we do it well, we actually have this kind of shared experience where it's almost like the group is thinking, it's like a brain together, and that's the best outcome. If your course, if you can create a course where everybody is engaged and thinking together, then that's the best outcome, and that's what Moodle was always designed to be, this place where you can work on getting everybody collaboratively learning together. And I hope this week that's what we can achieve as well, that we really get into these next few days, and that together we actually really have a good, hard think about the future of Moodle and the future of education. The Moodle brain thinking to itself. Well, as an aside, actually, how do you assess that? Do you assess everybody individually, or do you assess the group? And I really want us to think about those problems as well, and it's not a problem, it's a good thing. If we can assess the group, it's actually the best outcome. That's how companies work. A company is assessed as a whole on the quality of a product that puts out or service it provides and so on. The second big trend though, this is a completely different one, is there is a big trend, I call this the return of the guru. Now, guru is a Sanskrit word. It means a teacher or a guide. It's a master of a particular field. It sometimes gets abused in English language. You know, everyone becomes a guru for that reason. But generally, in ancient times, a guru is someone who's really focused on that one thing and they get so good at it, they start attracting followers and they're literal followers, people who would actually follow them around as they traveled around and you'd have a big group of people following you and that's why we call them followers. Now, in living memory, we have similar things. We've had, you know, there are very famous professors at institutions who are, you know, got tenure and they become in the field known as well. If you want to know this subject, you've got to go and study with this person and you would go to that university, you know, and be with that person. That is less common these days. In past decades, as universities get their budgets cut and they get pushed more towards being training institutions, you don't know less and less about who your lecturer is going to be for this subject and it's almost like they're interchangeable, right? Somebody is just going to deliver the course and it becomes about course delivery and it becomes about, you know, building blocks towards getting a degree and then you get out of there and you go and get a job. You don't any more really go to university to be with somebody who's super expert in that field like a mentor. It still happens, but I'm saying it happens less and less. But if you, we look around at the internet around the world, there is an explosion of gurus going on and they're happening on places like YouTube or sites like Skillshare and places like that and there you find there are a teacher, maybe they don't start out as a teacher, but at some point in the beginning they think, look, I'm really getting into whatever this topic is and I'm going to start making videos on YouTube or I'm going to start building a little online course to teach it. And they stay in that course, they stay making videos and they produce these videos again and again and again. It's so interesting if you look on some of these people and I follow, I have a bunch of interests like, you know, like being handy and making things, look at some makers and I'm getting into drones recently, right? Or Minecraft, for example. And you find people who devote their lives to aspects of that. Their early videos not so good, but they get better and better and better as they develop this feedback loop with their audience and the audience liking things, starting to follow them, it makes them better, they get better and better and you know, some people will get amazing at things and they become great teachers because they're able to, while they're learning, impart that same learning process onto people who are following them. That is the essence of the guru, basically. So I would love to see that more in our traditional institutions. So if we put these things together, we have this, there's an idea here of like, putting the teacher back at the centre again. I know that wasn't very fashionable for decades to say, put the student at the centre. Really what I'm doing is putting the group at the centre here. But there is the idea of a facilitator, somebody who's leading the group and facilitating and giving feedback to the group so that the whole group collaboratively learns and rises as a group. The person in the centre, this is what it could look like. So imagine that the teacher, the educator, has a space that they own. And this is something they really own. They don't have to just be renting it from some dot-com or some SaaS thing, they actually own this space in lots of real ways that really matter. They own it for many years, decades. This place is something they constantly improve and they always bring with them and it is their teaching space. It's like a website, it's like a blog, but it's more than all of that. It's a classroom that they have around them and it's their space. So they can operate this independently. They can be teaching people who come along anytime, but imagine if this space could also be docked or connected to an institution. So if standards worked in such a way that the institution said, oh, well, we offer many, many different courses with many different teachers and each one connects to the teacher's learning space and they may not all be on the same servers or in the same place, but they're connected in a way such as that the student's information, data, workflow can still work. At the center of the experience of the course, you have the teacher producing a feed. So like on YouTube, you have the teacher engaged in that self-improvement, that action research process of improving and improving and improving and having feedback from the students so that they get better and better and they get better at helping their students. They're representing their own learning all the time. And then around them is this collaborative space for projects. There's activities for students to try out things, to be led in different directions, to be given different types of assignments and group assignments. The teacher is always challenging the students to raise them up to give them new knowledge to help bring them into the practice of being whatever it is that they've come to learn. And in this picture, if you have teachers that are kind of a bit more autonomous, but they come together to work on things, what's the role of the university? What's the role of the institution? I can see a role of the institution as being like a research center, a place where you have big problems, SDG problems. So, okay, let's fix democracy, right? It's clearly broken. Look around you. Let's get democracy fixed. Okay, let's bring in the best people in the field, the teachers and their followers to come together and get into this project. The teachers are also researchers who are engaging with these things with their students, getting the students into parts of that problem as well. And I can see teaching and research being more blurred. Because right now, teaching and research is separated so far in most institutions that you think are on different planets. Teaching is generally seen as something that's interrupting my research. If we can blur those lines and bring those students as part of the research to be part of that problem solving, I think we have a really interesting new way of doing things. So, I would love to see our technologies that we're building kind of applied to this sort of vision. If we can make it easy to do those things, then it becomes more possible to do those things. And we can start, you know, changing and improving how education works. We know that this dynamic works. This kind of thing, the guru, I'm going to use this word guru. I know some people don't always like that word, but I'm just going to use it because it's the best word I can think of right here to get across my meaning. This way of thinking will, we know it works. We know it works in YouTube. We know it works in lots of places. It's a natural human thing. Just think yourself, right? Sometimes you've found someone who's very expert in your field and you go, wow, they're really amazing. There's that amazing feeling when you see someone who's really good at it. And you go, yeah, you have a natural instinct to like follow them, right? To learn more from them and to get engaged. So, I think that dynamic is a key one. We need to kind of try and work that into how we build our tools. So that's my philosophy for the morning. I'm throwing that out here for the week as part of the pot of ideas that we'll be having all together. Let's have a bit of news about all the products because I'm sure you want to hear about that. And also my mouse just ran out of battery. Good timing. Let's give you a quick update on where we are with products. So, the first thing is Moodle LMS. As I said, Moodle 4.0 is the focus. There's been some announcements. Maybe you hadn't heard yet, but we're going to be spending 18 months. So from now until the end of next year, just focused on Moodle 4.0. The version number is a good opportunity to take this extra time. We've done it in the past. Most of the big 0.0 releases, we took extra time. So 2.0 and 3.0. And now 4.0. The extra time period gives us a chance to really tackle some of the bigger things. We will be super careful not to break too many things, but we need to fix things. The process is, as I said, a UX. This is all about UX. It's about user experience. We're trying to focus on the user experience. In the end, when you get into Moodle 4.0 after using an early version of Moodle, you should go, wow, that is so much easier. That should be the feeling you get. And prettier as well. You should have a lovely experience from it, and that's what we're aiming to do. It's a complicated thing, and we're going to need everybody's help. A key to this whole process will be our new UX lead. She joined us only a month or more ago. Candice. And unfortunately, she's not well this week, but she's around, so high Candice. And hopefully part of all the sessions are going forward this week. But there are a lot of workshops happening, and we really need everyone's engagement on that. The Moodle app, we have a... Oh, sorry, and I should have said, with Moodle LMS, Sonda Bangmano, who's the product lead, he has a session, all about 3.9, which is tomorrow in the technology room. And he's also here to listen and learn from everyone as well. We all are, so it's going to be pretty exciting. The Moodle app, as I'm saying here, they're always improving. We introduced these new app plans this year. Thank you to everyone who's purchased one of these pro or premium plans. It really helps. It's really helping to fund the app team and produce better, faster apps, really accelerate the development of our apps. So I really appreciate everyone who's come on board with that. Juan Leyva, who's the product lead for the apps, will be talking about the app later today and also on Friday, both in the technology room. We've got Moodle Workplace. We've talked a bit about it already because the site we're in here is Moodle Workplace. I'm so happy we've put the years that it's taken into developing Workplace on top of Moodle LMS. It's getting really great take up. There are some very large organizations that are using it. And you'll be hearing about some of them at the conference. There's quite a few talks about Workplace at the conference. This is only available via Moodle Partners for now. But a lot of the features in Workplace are already planned. In the roadmap to land in the publicly available Moodle LMS. And that's already been happening and it will happen more. So to hear about all of that and all the plans, you can listen to Emilio Lozano, who's our Moodle Workplace product lead. And he's talking about 3.9 on Thursday in the technology room and also in the Spanish room. He's doing it twice, one in each language. Our next big major product that we're working on is Moodle Cloud. Moodle Cloud experienced enormous growth and attention during this COVID crisis. We are now getting 800% more signups on Moodle Cloud now than we were in February. So a lot of activity is happening there. The team have done an amazing job keeping it all running and more than that, actually improving the whole system to cope with the growth so it can scale. And we are now working at the moment on new sort of plans and packages. And who knows, one day we'll have that guru, the guru place that I was talking about earlier. So, yeah, that's under development. Lee Goldsworthy, who's the product lead, doesn't actually have a presentation, but he is around the conference. So look him up and catch him. There are several members of the Moodle Cloud team are speaking. So for example, Machia Petit is speaking on Thursday in the tech room as well. The next one is MoodleNet. So those of you who have been around here for a while, you may have heard the MoodleNet is... We've been hearing about it for quite some time. And you're going, where is it? How can I use it? Well, it's been under development really for nearly two years. And those of you who are real old-timers will know that actually this is a new version of an older MoodleNet that I had started many years ago based on Moodle itself. We've had a little bit of a setback with MoodleNet. Almost the whole team left this project only a few weeks ago. So at the moment we have just one person remaining on the team. Hi. And the system wasn't really on track to meet its deadline of being a beta version this month anyway. So it's going to take a bit longer. What I'm actually looking for right now is to do a review top to bottom of the MoodleNet code as we have it. I would love any of you, any Moodlers or anyone who might be watching this right now, who's interested in being part of a task force to basically look into the MoodleNet code quite deeply and give the whole thing an audit and a report. We want to develop a thorough understanding of exactly what we have there. And that will be part of now the planning for the new team that will be taking it forward in the future. The concept of MoodleNet is a great one. It's something that we really need. MoodleNet addresses the content side of things. For those of you who are not familiar with it, the way it works is that it's a social network where the main activity, the core activity is that people gather around creating collections of resources. So a simple story might work like this. You're a teacher teaching a very obscure subject. You're in your Moodle course. It's blank. You go, okay, now I have to start making my course. And when you start adding activities, you see, oh, there's a MoodleNet link. You go off to MoodleNet, you sign up, you indicate to MoodleNet what your interests are, what your subject area is, what level, what language. And then you very quickly find groups of other educators who are the same as you, teaching the same subject in the same language at the same level. And you find that the people who are there before you have already collected some really great videos on YouTube, some really great websites with some information. There is a whole Moodle course there waiting already. And you go, great, this is what I needed. And because it's all Creative Commons licensed, you click on it and bring it over to your Moodle site with a couple of clicks. And now you have a template. You have something to work with that helps you get into teaching this topic a lot faster. And then as you get better at doing it and you improve it, you go, you know, I'm going to share this back or I'm going to be part of this group. And we're all going to discuss how to teach that topic together and we're going to improve the state of the art of teaching that topic. And the last part of MoodleNet is that once this exists, we can work with all of the people making open education resources out there to get them easier to find, to start linking them together so that this is the portal to the entire open education resource space for not only for Moodle users, but through any educator. This concept is good. A lot of people want it. We have to finish building it. And I would love the Moodle community to really help us get this back on track. So look me up in the forums or anywhere around the site like I described. There might be one more slide here showing the current status of MoodleNet. So this is what MoodleNet does look like right now. And you can see here is some of the communities that I'm currently in. And this is one particular community collecting resources here. And there are two collections. And you can go into those collections. And things will be tagged. Things will have categories so that you can find things. And it was getting there. But none of this is implemented yet. And there's still work to do. But we'll get there. The last of our big products I want to talk about, Moodle products is the Moodle Educator Certification Program. I'm very proud of this work that we've done here. We've taken the 22 Competency Framework. It's a European Standard Framework called digcomp.edu. We've turned it into six certification courses. And we've built a whole infrastructure where this certification can run on a, it's using a Moodle workplace site which does use all the workplace features very heavily because it's highly automated. And we are currently, we've trained a lot of partners to use the system. And you're able to get a certification by going to a Moodle partner. They'll take you through that whole process. And at the end, you get a certificate. And it's a very meaningful certificate. This is not just a, I can use Moodle. This is a certificate for online teaching. And if you're able to see on those competencies, there are things all about how you empower your learners and how you facilitate their own digital competence. How do you create collaborative learning? What are your assessment strategies online? So these are generic pedagogical competencies and professional competencies that people should be having when they're teaching online. We've just implemented them around Moodle and we now have the certification. This is launched. This is open. At the moment, it's being translated into as many languages as we can possibly do it. We've even built its own translation engine so we can translate Moodle content very quickly. And we're doing that as we speak. There is some sessions later in the week from Mary Cooch. Mary Cooch is the lead of education in Moodle and is running the head of this project. She has plenty of sessions, including workshops today, all week. So Mary Cooch is the person to look out for on the program and her team as well. So that's the basics of the six products here. There are gaps. We don't do everything. Moodle focuses on those things. For everything else, what we are doing is promoting the use of open education technology. I believe very, very strongly that we cannot build the infrastructure of the future for education, and especially because it is a basic human right. We cannot build the infrastructure for a basic human right on completely commercial, proprietary rental systems. I've mentioned rental a couple of times, and I just want to explain the difference, that some software on the Internet is for rent, right? You get a copy of that software rented to you. You pay every month, and you can rent it, and you can use it, and that's fine as far as it goes. But at any time, the landlord can say, I'm taken away from you, or maybe they just collapse and it disappears. The other alternative to renting is, of course, owning. Now, if you own your own software, you own your data, you own everything about it, it's a completely different scenario. And it's a little bit like owning a house versus renting a house. When you own a house, if you want to knock down a wall, go knock down a wall. If you're renting, you can't even put a nail in the wall sometimes without permission. When we are talking about education infrastructure, owning is far better than renting in general. You might have the opportunity to rent now and then, because it's easier or cheaper, but you're always able to own, that's the point. So Open EdTech is all about software that now allows you to own your own infrastructure, and we are forming an association in Brussels very soon, and the main purpose of this association will be to promote Open EdTech, to promote integrations between Open EdTech to help us work together more effectively. So we are basically building an Open EdTech platform that everybody can use. And so right now, we're using Big Blue Button, for example. This is a perfect example of a piece of Open EdTech that Moodle won't build, we don't need to build. We just need to integrate with this, and we do integrate very well together. Okay. If you're interested in that, that website, openedtech.global. Anyway, look, enough from me. I and all of us are keen to wanting to listen to all of you. So now we have five days of presentations. I am absolutely looking forward to it. I cannot wait. We're all here to listen, we're all here to learn. I want you to go forth, Moodle Mood online globally, and have a great time, and I'll see you in the forums and in the chats. Thank you very much for coming, and let's have a great week. See you later.