 Good morning everyone. This is a webinar 12 of OE Global 21. Thank you all for joining us. We have three amazing sessions this morning and I'm Gina Fransman and I will be your emcee for this morning basically in a virtual showcase. I'm about myself just very quickly. I'm the coordinator for the academic literature C's at Nelson Mandela University here in Trebergha which was Port Elizabeth, South Africa. I'm also I'm also the project leader of the Open Education Influences Project which is a student advocacy and empowerment online course. Six modules open, Ubuntu advocacy, facilitation, influencing and then the sustainable development goals is hosted on our Engaged.Mandela site and powered by Moodle. So thrilled to say. So I'm thrilled to be here and have the leads from Moodle as one of the three sessions as well. I'm happy to say that two of our instructional designers from Mandela Uni are in the room as well. Koshela and Andrew and can share with all of you that part of their jobs are literally to help our university and community use and engage with Moodle for teaching, for learning and so a shout out to the two of them. We now have two open project courses from Open Education for Better World here at Mandela University and they are on the Moodle site and freely available. Mine's called Becoming an Open Aid Influencer and then Earl Mentor who's here too high up. His course is called Peacebuilding in High Risk Communities in South Africa and you can find that page on OEG Connect as well. Today I'm super excited to facilitate the session so here we go. As we go to add your questions, your comments and especially your kudos for the speakers to the chat window. You feel free to use those emojis in the chat window to signal your likes, your applause and other reactions during the presentations please. Presenters as we go through the session and you are done or waiting to present. It may be good to copy and paste all questions directed to yourselves or your projects into a document so we can engage with them in the Q&A. Moitza who is our rapporteur for today will be helping us do so and so that we don't miss any valuable insights or feedback to you and your project. I think everyone's posted their presentations on their project pages of OEG Connect so audience members please sit back and relax as we begin. About the sessions and I will do this in order as they are about to begin. So for number one, it's re-engineering open education practices for systemic change. The presenters are Sheronika P. Karunanayaka and Somnidu and in this webinar they discuss four initiatives implemented by the OUSR that's the Open University of Sri Lanka since 2013 in relation to promoting the adoption of OER and OEP among practitioners at various levels. All these initiatives address the UNESCO OER recommendation one. Strategically plan and support OER capacity building, awareness raising, use creation and sharing at the institutional and national levels targeting all education sectors and levels. The focus in the webinar is on the capacity development of individuals as well as educational institutions. Sheronika and Somn, I will just hand over to you. Have fun. Thank you very much for that introduction. Greetings everyone from Sri Lanka. First of all my apologies for not being able to join the video due to some technical issue I am having. However, I'll share my screen now. We'll start the presentation. So okay, as Gino gave a small introduction, our presentation is based on several initiatives we have implemented at the Open University of Sri Lanka. I am from the Faculty of Education of the Open University of Sri Lanka and my colleague Somnayidu from Melbourne, Australia and together we have initiated and implemented a series of capacity development initiatives on the adoption of OER and OEP since 2013 continuously as several cycles. So actually we have all these research projects and we have published a lot on all these initiatives so we are not going to focus on that aspect but in this presentation our key focus is on bringing about systemic change in the adoption of OER and OEP through our efforts. So let me give some brief introduction to each of these initiatives and the methodologies we have adopted and the findings and at the end Somn will discuss about the lessons learned and about the systemic change, how it happened and how our initiatives made that happen as we believe. So okay, so let me move forward. All these initiatives are linked with or addressing the first objective of the UNESCO recommendation on OER that is about building capacity of stakeholders to create, access, reuse, adapt and redistribute OER. So all these areas which are emphasized in the recommendation have been addressed in all our initiatives as you will see when I briefly describe them. So these are the four initiatives in brief. In 2013 actually at that time OER was a totally new concept for us at the Open Institute of Sri Lanka. We have heard the word OER you know at conferences you know different instances but there was not quite a clear understanding about the OER. So at that time at the Faculty of Education I was the Dean of the Faculty of Education. So with the support from the Commonwealth of Learning we initiated a project to raise awareness and capacity building about integrating OER into our teacher education programs and so on was the facilitator for this project and that's how we started our OER journey, OER and OEP journey in 2013. So that initiative was restricted to the Faculty of Education. All members of the Faculty of Education that is 30 a small number in our faculty all of us engaged in this initiative in this project and we developed, we raised awareness and developed capacity and integrated OER into our online course development. So it resulted in five teams worked on it and five online courses with OER integration happened. So afterwards with this experience the next initiative from the Faculty of Education we wanted to move out to the other faculties. At that time at the OER still there were four faculties in addition to education Humanities and Social Sciences and the natural sciences and the engineering. So as this next project again so as the facilitator and with the support from SEMCA that is Commonwealth Educational Media Center for Asia we initiated a full online professional development program on OER based e-learning for educators for all educators at the opponents of Sri Lanka. So actually that's an adaptation of an existing course originally developed by SEMCA with Vavasya Unopened University. We adapted it and implemented it. Then the third step was interesting we moved out of the opponents of Sri Lanka and that is from the university system we went out to the school system in Sri Lanka. That's an initiative supported under the as part of the RO4D project. Many of you know about that during 2015-16 and it was quite big because it targeted all in Sri Lanka we have nine provinces so we targeted teachers from all nine provinces that is throughout the country and 230 school teachers were involved in that and again that was capacity development of school teachers in integrating OER into their practices. Then with all this experience finally in 2017 we decided to go for a MOOC. Actually that was the first MOOC developed at the Open School of Sri Lanka and as I believe in any educational institution in Sri Lanka any higher educational institution to my knowledge. So with that we went out of the university you know we opened it up for a global audience and more than 400 participants from 28 different countries participated in this. So in brief all these capacity development initiatives the main goal was to develop capacity among practitioners at different sectors at different levels in different areas of study but they are all practitioners and developing capacity on the adoption of OER and OP which of course directly links with this OER recommendation because all these interventions were strategically planned and supported the capacity development at different levels national institution individual levels institutional levels and national levels because the school implementation was with the support from the Ministry of Education at a national level and targeting all education sectors and levels in Sri Lanka and even outside. So that's a brief introduction as I mentioned all these things are very we have published a lot I will I have put those references in the extended abstract and I will put some at the end in the chat box as well but for the purpose of this presentation our key research question was how and what extent the capacity development approaches implore to promote the adoption of OER and OP has resulted in bringing about systemic change so all these so answering the question how all these initiatives based on a common conceptual framework which we call the learning engine framework which was adapted from the very first initiative if you read our first publication based on the first initiative the first book it all explains what this learning engine framework is about but the key focus here is about it's based on situated learning principles we are the practitioners or the educators are situated in authentic learning scenarios and providing them with real life activities and tasks to engage in during the experience throughout with the support of the resources as OER so that's in very brief about the conceptual framework and the methodology we adopted it took a design-based research approach because all these initiatives were like cycles of these iterative cycles of testing and refining the practices each stage we started with analyzing the current thinking and practices of practitioners in relation to their use of instructor methods and materials in the teaching learning process because first we had we are in it's a collaborative process between the researchers the team all these we had very good collaborative teams of researchers and the practitioners and the participant teams so in collaboration we analyzed and identified the contextual needs and then designed a sequence of experiences to enhance their pedagogical thinking and practices related to the adoption of OER and OEP so basically it's enacting change towards openness in their thinking and practices and capacity development happened throughout using various methods interactive workshops online learning environments and finally reflecting to find solutions to these authentic problems so since they were all research projects throughout data collection happened mainly qualitative process oriented approach was adopted and we compiled all these reflections as lived experiences as on narratives of both practitioners and researchers that's where all our publications came out three books which I showed at the very beginning they all have the voices of these teachers and educators and practitioners who went through this process and results of each initiative fed on to the successive initiatives and enable the refinement of design strategies so if I quickly go to the findings of course that we observe significant shifts in the perspective perspectives and practices towards openness now when we started from the faculty the whole faculty got familiar with integrating OER into their courses of course many of those people have retired now but the newcomers also we are keeping up the practice we are moving I mean we are continuing with the practice so the faculty it has become a continuous we are encouraging continuously to integrate OER in their courses and the university all the other faculties they are interested individuals in all faculties who have you know initiated and I would like to say this resulted in developing an OER policy at the Open Institute of Sri Lanka as well in the during the first initiative we didn't have an OER policy but by the second initiative because of the interest raised and the need for a policy came and we developed a policy also during this time where these researchers also gave inputs and now we have integrated this into the staff development process when we are for the newly recorded lecturers this is included so it's also an ongoing practice and the school system from the school teachers it went to the students and to their peer teachers and even some teachers conducted you know workshops and their own initiatives for other teachers in other schools so it's like a you know rippling effect or you know moving from individuals to other parties out of their schools so we observe a lot of shifts especially I would like to mention about the language because in the Sri Lankan context most of the teachers are teaching in the local languages Singhala and Tamil but most of the OERs are in English but then they were motivated even to prepare in local language creation and then sharing with others and compiling so all these shifts happened and finally the CPD MOOCs project also we observed these thinking and practices there were four CPD MOOCs one month duration of each and during these they are the tasks were oriented in such a way to encourage them to become more creative critical reflective and collaborative of course challenge lot of challenges faced during these all these initiatives some common challenges are the cognitive load faced by these individuals coping up with so many novel concepts the OER OEP and using technology the language issues and then innovative pedagogy you know moving from the traditional thinking of course since they are all working practitioners full-time working practitioners the workload the high workload and the time constraints so anyway so that's the you know an overview of our initiatives and now I would like to give over to my colleague Somnayidu to elaborate on the lessons learned through these initiatives and some concluding remarks thank you thank you Sronika you've got two minutes up you've got me two minutes you're 13 minutes I was timing you so here we go the beauty of this work was the opportunity to work in almost a sort of you know a new space a green field if you'd like to call it as Sronika pointed out that you know in 2013 or so most of the faculty members had no idea about what what OERs were I mean this is interesting because here was an open university which was in the business of open education and yet very unfamiliar with open educational resources so in the seven years what we were able to do is to bring about systemic change I mean I'm not suggesting that we have changed the culture of the academic culture towards a more open society and open open scholarly environment we're a long way from that but it was an opportunity to work from within a faculty within a program to take it throughout the university and then to take it throughout the country and again the the advantages where the you know Sronika is is a big country but a small country by by other standards so here we were able to work across borders across institutional borders and and and take a global picture within the context of a nation and and that was an amazing opportunity to be able to engage in in the scholarship of open educational practices which is what we would like to call it as opposed to just OER and bringing about the change so the the point about of of this presentation is to is to describe how systemic change can be brought about and what the challenges are I mean as we have both said that you know the battle's not won yet but we're a long way into the battle and we've got some really good winds along along the way so that's the main point that that we want to bring across as part of this presentation through our individual projects of course and and and two things to just I just want to finish up with is that even though you can and you you're able to do a lot of work at the grassroots level with individual people and getting people to adopt open educational resources you know what educational practices there has to be a counter balance from the institutional perspective there has to be policy in place there has to be leadership and there has to be a top down a force if you like uh on onto the activity otherwise a grassroots activity alone is not going to not going to cut it so we found that working from both ends you know from from top down through leadership uh right from the vice chancellor down down to the to the academics in the department and then working with school teachers and academics was was was was going to be crucial in in any any activity along these lines in any kind of change that you want to bring about in scholarship all right you know i'm done thank you and thank you very much so as i mentioned all these i will be sharing all these links for anybody who'd like to get further information about our initiatives thank you so much thank you sharonica and thank you some that was a wonderful presentation um it's it's some amazing work that you're doing and it's lovely to see how sort of smaller initiatives can be amplified to a national level so well done for what you've done in Sri Lanka um i actually began the session without introducing the the two presenters properly so just a small bit about both of them because now you see the wonderful work that they do and you don't necessarily know where they are situated professionally so sharonica is a professor in educational technology in the faculty of education at the open university of Sri Lanka she's been an academic at OUSL since 1993 and served as the dean of the faculty of education she's an honorary advisor at the Commonwealth of Learning during 2019 to 2021 and her key research focus is on technology integration in teaching and learning learning experience design OER and OEP Dr. Naidu is former provice chancellor flexible learning and director of the center for flexible learning at the university of the south pacific is the principal associate in technology education and design associates and then executive editor of the journal distance education i won't take up much more time we will have an opportunity to engage with lots of those questions and comments that's in the chat there's a lot of buzz happening there for now let's move on to our second session thank you to the first presenters now up next Moodle net 2.0 as a platform for sharing and curating OER Martin and Paul will be presenting this session Dr. Martin Dagi Amasi is the founder and CEO of Moodle and the open source Moodle software project launched in 1999 it now includes Moodle LMS Moodle cloud Moodle workplace Moodle net Moodle academy and more from beginnings in Australia he continues to guide and grow the enterprise with the support of 150 team members globally 100 Moodle partner companies thousands of collaborators and hundreds of millions of users worldwide including my university Martin has multiple postgraduate degrees in computer science and education and then two honorary doctorates from Spain and Belgium Paul Hodgson is the other presenter and he's the product manager of Moodle net he's got over 20 years experience in education technology and software project product management Paul was an education technology director in higher education for 10 years and he's been working with Moodle products for over 14 years as a host administrator developer teacher and trainer he's also been responsible for digital content and educational innovation using digital technologies Paul aims to make Moodle net the largest federated open education resources platform globally his postgraduate degree in information technology over to you Martin and Paul break a leg oh there won't be any leg breaking going on here hi everyone thank you for the intro Gino uh lovely and um and thanks for that last talk um so yeah a few of you may have heard me talk about Moodle net um for a while and the reason why it has a 2.0 on it is because we had a previous version which um unfortunately we did a lot of work on and we actually trashed we threw it away and we started again um I'm happy to say we've got this new version to talk about and I'm really happy about it and really proud to talk about it so um uh let's get into it um if you could skip to the next slide Paul you can see you have an ultrawide monitor there um so the uh the problem that we've been addressing is that a lot of people when they are tackling an online course um are given a blank screen um you know here's your empty course and now you're facing a white wall what do you do next and you have to you're responsible for getting your own content or finding your own content now if you've started to do that with a new course uh you know maybe you do have a lot of uh old things that you had from your pre online days and you you repurpose those that's that's good um we can do a lot more on the web as you know than you could do with a lecture so uh it's good to have uh really engaging resources and so you go out there and you know what we all want and why we're all here is we're supporting open education resources and there is a ton of it out there but um it's not always easy to find and use and so the the main problems here are that there's a lot of repositories of oh yeah i've got a link there i can post it but there there are hundreds of repositories around and some some them focus on different subjects or different um often usually different languages um and uh they're hard to go through them all uh even when you search them and you find something that matches a search it doesn't tell you what's good for your course uh it just because you found a textbook on physics doesn't mean that's going to make for an engaging physics course um and that's uh that's something critical I think if we're going to create really powerful good online education courses we need great OER and and more than just the uh the content right the text and the images and videos what is the processes what are the assignments what are the types of forums you would want to run discussions uh different activities um even when you go out and google and go and search the the world's resources uh you it's still not always easy to find what's good for a course and uh and of course you don't even know what's OER right you have to check all the licenses one by one so it ends up being a huge time consuming process why is every teacher having to do that over and over again even though we have so much OER so what we are trying to do with MoodleNet is solve that by having a structure that allows all the educators so to to curate collections of OER um once somebody who's really good at a topic collects resources great resources that they are using and they've tested and they find are working really great for that subject that's that itself is content that's knowledge that we want to be sharing and so MoodleNet is the place for those curated collections um the other aspect is we would it's integrated with the LMS with Moodle and in future other LMSs um so that you can jump out of your course to get there and push that stuff back into your course and it's all very uh at your fingertips and we've designed this as open education technology it's not a commercial product none of our stuff is or one of our things is but generally Moodle is we're huge open source makers and supporters so we're building this so that it can be run by lots of people it can support all languages all sectors and all contexts so you can run your own MoodleNet server um just maybe you specialise on one particular subject you can put all that stuff in there and it will be connected with all the other MoodleNet servers and found from anywhere in the world um important to our last thing I want to mention here is that primarily we're thinking about using it to link to existing OER that's already out there um however it also supports uploading the files into it as well so it can also be a repository um so uh new project manager running the project and uh who has just launched the beta site last week is Paul Hodgson Paul Hodgson so I'll hand over to Paul take it away thanks Martin just uh change my screen a little bit so I can demo to the Apple system I hope that's okay and you can see it um so essentially yes we we came in I've been with MoodleNet three months trying to to put the first beta level together um we came in with an approach essentially of a new redesign which is around a new user experience for those of you that have seen MoodleNet before um I will show you it so I won't go into too much detail there but some principles are that guests can find and use resources so firstly you don't have to be logged in uh to actually find resources and use them um that was very important from an unlimited point of view privacy point of view if they're open you don't need to log in um if you do log in and you do have an account on your our MoodleNet or your MoodleNet um validated people that have full access to everything uploading resources curating collections following people that sort of thing um if you do upload a resource it can be tagged with the standard I said subjects we've humanized this somewhat so it's not ungainly um we have added creative commons licenses which must be selected if you upload something um and other metadata to make what Martin was talking about which was make it useful make it easy to find things as well um collections can be actually owned by one person and can be followed by other people so you can create a collection of any name any reference and have that followed by educators who are looking for content anywhere um you can use bookmarks and likes like a social kind of thing and that leads into some form of kudos and points on the system so you can build your own profile and of course it's integrated with MoodleLMS so you can send any resource if you've set it up in MoodleLMS straight into your course from MoodleNet um importantly just a little bit about metadata Martin mentioned there about the things that you can actually add to the resource um we added these as um optional because well as we know a lot of faculty don't want to spend too long uploading their resources and classifying their metadata but it is very useful to to other people to do that so we do encourage people to do that through points through kudos through gamification eventually um but essentially the subjects licenses what is it what type of resource is it and that's based on the learning object model of the IEE and also you can do all my types so you can upload to it or you can link to anything anywhere as well and it's easy to translate because it's based on ISO and can be done on the server side just a little intro there um I'd really like to show you the system more than anything else because actions feel out of the words just swapping over so here we go so MoodleLMS it's there right now as you can see um on the screen at the bottom there is a link to MoodleNet beta if you want to get involved in any documentation that's where you go to if you want to report bones that's for features that sort of thing and you can see at the moment I'm not logged in at all so I'm a blind user I can join or I can log in but actually I can start using this without so if I start looking for say resources on the earth it will give me what's in the system there straight away these subjects are the ISED subjects and I can go straight into here and see what's under that subject are there any collections from other people around that topic and what resources do we have on that topic as well um so if I click on the on the earth you'll see um earth sciences has four followers zero collections and three resources and you'll notice here that I cannot follow this because I'm anonymous I don't have an account on MoodleNet once I have an account I can follow so I look at one of these resources this has been curated by oh look it's by me so uh you know this is my account so you'll see it's working and it's essentially a website link so I can open that link and have a look straight in there I can send that to my Moodle LMS into my course immediately um or I can just um look at who's done this because they might be a person of interest so I can look at their profile and see what else they've done what their collections are um and there's a measure of sort of how useful they are on the system as well as in useful to other people not as in useful in that they've got kudos and followers and a number of resources um you'll notice from the privacy point of view um that I'm a guest remember I can't follow and I can't message this person okay so that privacy is very important to us as well so if I was to log in I'm just going to uh switch my screen here so I'm now going to log in as myself um if you want to sign up you can you can do that right now it's a simple email validation sign up so you are sent an email link and you click on it and it validates your account it then takes you to your profile which you'll see any second when I log in so as soon as you validate your account you're taken to your profile and you can edit various things about you the edit button there you can see and I can change my profile picture my cover um my web link my location my description um and save that back to build your profile now if I do the same thing as I did before which was to come into the system and look for earth type things I get exactly the same results but now when I go and look at earth sciences one second here we go you can see now I can follow and unfollow this as a I said subject so anything is added it will appear in my uh in my following which I will show you the moment and if I look at the same results I did before I can now do exactly as I did before except because it's my own results I could edit it and I could add more metadata I can change things around a little bit I can delete it um I can also like it if it wasn't mine and I can bookmark it for later if I wish as well the only other thing is that I can add it collections now these collections belong to me but are public so I could say oh this is an open education research resource I'll add it done and then essentially when you look at my profile and you go to the open education research it's added it there so if anyone else is following that they would now have that as part of their resources as well okay so profiles can be followed by people so essentially if I was to look around here and say okay I'm going to look for something in languages because all I'm looking for is who is a person on this system who is into languages or there's a language resource and we can see this is uploaded by Anna who's on the call now and I can either use her resource or I can follow and unfollow her and I can message her on the system as well there's nothing given away here there's no personal data being shown no email addresses nothing it's all very private but Anna will receive this as an email right now um eventually we're going to get into messaging um but we're working on that right now and I can see Anna's documents I can like them and if I like them you watch her kudos her kudos go up more likes she gets on her resources I can bookmark them and unbookmark them so that they appear on my bookmarks list as well okay now what I'd like to do is just go through the steps of creating something for you so if I I'm going to start with a collection why because if I had a resource I want to add it to a collection that already exists so I don't have one so I'm going to start with with a new collection here I'm going to just put a cover image in here just a second while I find the right one so we're going to use this as an image and this is going to be another collection that's learning and I can create collection there and essentially now in my profile you'll see I have that collection ready for people to view there's nothing in it so I can actually search here for OER and it said we have something in open edu core research here which is actually my collection so I can add this to another one what we'll end up with is a list of resources that become useful across the boundaries of subjects and collections because you can personalize these things and you end up finding things in many many different ways and the more accurate we get people to do that the more beneficial the system is to OER as a whole okay let's just look at someone else's resource I'm going to go back to Anna's resource here obviously this is not in English so it's multi languages supported as well we have a capacity on the server to translate the whole site into other languages and we'll be asking for help in translations eventually I guess but you can see here that Anna has tagged this with the various metadata I can't do anything with this other than read it but it makes this really useful from a point of view of searchability as well and all of these are based on that IE on I said on all these standards a little bit about licensing well Anna hasn't actually listed this as a license anyway why because it's a link because there's no need for that the link will come from the license itself you know it's not an open license for a link yeah so we could look at that one straight away or we can use it in Moodle I can add it to my collection I can say well I'd like this in my OER connection and done now I have curated it for others so if I go in there it's in my collection as well so anyone who's following my collection will actually see that as well and finally just to run you through adding a resource here so new resources are very varied of course we've designed the system to sport any MIME type so it could be a link to a page going somewhere else a video a YouTube video whatever the MIME type is but you can upload as well if you were to upload a file you can't see what I'm doing in the background but if I do an image file it will upload it and it will give you a thumbnail of the image file and it will also you can see the the name there ask you for a Creative Commons license you can't actually add this resource unless you select something obviously we're hoping everything is is here but possibly not possibly not in the public domain and we'll give it some data and those are the ISED categories everything we've designed is based on start to type and it will find essentially so there's no need to scroll down to lots and lots of different classifications you can just type and find so that will be in education I'm just going to use the same description for speed right now and because it's me it says you have three collections would you like to add it to any of these well yes I'll have it on open education resources and then it starts to say to me okay this is the content type we want me to add this is optional I can click create resource right now but obviously we'd like to encourage people to do these because it makes it searchable so the contact type we're going to say this is a tutorial it is for a primary education it was created in February 2019 and it is in africans as we have some South Africans on the call why not and then I can create the resource now essentially that goes away and comes back exactly what you would see as a resource which can now be downloaded because it's a file it's not a link it can be added to a collection another collection or it can be sent immediately to Moodle okay so that's it apart from and this is quite important but if I was to go for a sciences again in terms of a trending subject and I was I wanted to follow somebody I could follow at the profile level so if I go for let's see diet have we got anything on diet where's one on let's go there we go there's one in other languages by Mary who many of you might know as well who's a member of Moodle team now I can here follow and unfollow mary a message as before but actually I can also follow her collections so if she is of interest but I don't want to follow at the profile level I can do it at the at the collection level as well the nice thing about this as well of course when you send to Moodle and I'm not going to do this because it has to be configured in Moodle to actually work but I've got some screenshots to show you if you have Moodle and it supports Moodle 3.9 or later if you have Moodle set up and you have the the instance activated in your Moodle setup then essentially you have a browse content from Moodle that button automatically already in Moodle when you add an activity and you can bring things straight across from Moodle net itself so there you go that's the system I've put all these screenshots in the presentation if you want to download it later but where now what do we do next well you can use it now we're asking that you use it for educational content because we're trying to build the first version of something that's useful I know that people are going to go in and test it but you can delete your resource afterwards if it's not educational try and do something useful tag it up and see if people find it would be great so you can start using it now you can help us by giving us feedback giving us comments on usability on bugs on it will be nice to see this feature and you can do that all through our Moodle net tracker which we use across Moodle as an organization and if you'd like to get in touch with us to help at the institutional level of having your own Moodle net we will do a limited number of these coming in the next few months to to actually push this out and learn about the industry and that's it we're looking for devs we're looking for help we're looking to grow Moodle net into a large global system open source free secure and another thanks very much if you have any questions we're happy to answer you thank you Martin and thank you Paul this looks amazing I'm so excited being Moodle users at Mandela University and really like going on it on quite the steep learning curve since COVID hit last year like this is an exceptional resource for us to definitely try I put into the chat there yes please add us to that user list so that we can also engage and give you feedback please thank you so much I think that we'll move on to the third session for today which is titled radical openness incremental design maximizing the reach of OER capacity development through open principles the presenters today are Clay Good, Wayne McIntosh and Simon Wood and in this presentation they review how the OER Foundation's award-winning open education copyright and open licensing in a digital world micro course has evolved and contributed to building capacity of stakeholders to create accessibility use adapt and redistribute OER and that's the next recommendation on OER or a portion of that since the courses inception in 2011 so about the presenters today Wayne McIntosh is the founding director of the OER Foundation headquartered in Otago Polytechnic Limited in New Zealand he is is an article he is coordinating the establishment of the OERU an international innovation partnership which aims to widen access to more affordable education for all Wayne holds the UNESCO chair in OER and serves as a member of the board of directors of the OER Foundation he's a strategy innovator with a passion for open sourcing education the next presenter is Simon Wood who is a teaching a learning and teaching specialist at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand where her focus is developing the capability of academic staff to use technology to support learning and teaching since 2018 she's also been seconded part-time from the Polytechnic to work on OERU projects including course design and marketing automation the third presenter is Claire Good good with an E she's a learning tech and teaching specialist and principal lecturer in the learning and teaching development team at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand Claire works alongside academic staff across the Polytechnic to build their capacity or capabilities in multiple aspects of pedagogical experience in practice this includes program and course design assessment strategies technology enhanced learning blended delivery the development of resources for lifelong learning and continuing professional development all of this to ensure the best possible experience and outcomes for learners Claire is also one of the elected staff representatives on the Polytechnic's Leadership Council Claire, Wayne and Simon please go ahead welcome and have fun over to you. Kia ora thank you very much thank you for not wishing us to break our legs as you did with the other groups that's good so thanks very much for being with us for this this presentation which I think fits in well with the the other ones that we we've had in this this session looking at things similar things from a different angle so yes our title radical openness incremental design what we're actually going to do to illustrate this is to tell you the story of a course and this course is open education copyright and open licensing in a digital world it's a capacity building course for open education and it is itself freely accessible and constructed entirely from OER and is is licensed under a CC by SA license now through the story of the development and evolution of this course we'll illustrate how the two guiding principles and those are a deep commitment to openness that we called radical openness and an incremental design approach have supported the two UNESCO OER recommendations that are covered in this webinar so that's as we've mentioned before capacity building and inclusive and equitable OER and actually there's quite a bit of international cooperation and the fifth UNESCO recommendation in here as well so how are we going to do this we're going to talk about who's behind this course how did it start and what has it become uh there we're then going to talk about who's using it now both in terms of institutions and learners and then Wayne's going to finish up for us by explaining just how we believe that our approach of radical openness helps us to fulfill the UNESCO OER recommendations so as we mentioned uh in the introductions um Wayne is amongst other things the managing director of the OER foundation and he also heads up the OER university task which is normally known as the OERU and you'll hear us mention these two organizations quite a few times in our presentation so I'm just going to explain them briefly here so the OER foundation it's a New Zealand based educational charity that was founded in 2009 by a target polytechnic um the place where Claire and I work for most of the time and it provides its mission is to provide leadership in support of open education through various projects and for the purpose of this talk there are two projects that are particularly relevant so I'll mention them now so one of them is wiki educator so wiki educator is a an online platform for collaborative OER course design based on the same uh same technology as wikipedia the other project is the OERU now this is a it's an international network of over 40 institutions in seven global regions networks uh been around for several years now uh growing all the time um and what it does is it offers freely accessible first year of university level courses assembled entirely from OER and they are um yes uh accessible to anybody around the world without a need to log in without a need to pay any money um and not only is there course material there but there's also a structure of technology that provides learners with a free online personal learning environment using open source technology and that will that side of things will be picked up by by Wayne towards the end of this presentation so I'm now going to um hand over to to Claire who's going to tell us a bit about the um the course itself but I will continue to be the the slide master thanks Simone so um we can see here a prime line of how the course has evolved um in 2011 the OER foundation initiated the uh collaborative development of the open content licensing for educators micro course um as a practical introduction to OER creative commons and copyright to empower educators to legally remix um OER volunteers from the wiki educator community the open courseware consortium now OER global and creative commons all contributed to its development in an open wiki where the course was also hosted and um from march 2011 through to 2014 six cohorts of this course were facilitated by the OER foundation with more than 3000 learners from more than 90 countries and with the philosophy of um release early release often course activities and materials were regularly reviewed and refined in response to learners needs um then realizing that the 40 hour micro course could not be used to qualify for full course credit the OER network started developing the learning in a digital age course often abbreviated abbreviated to leader um which incorporated the open content licensing um material and other elements of digital literacy for the 21st century so through international collaboration and um an open crowdsourcing uh invite for input four micro courses were developed including the one we're focusing on today open education copyright and open licensing in the digital world which effectively became the successor to the ocl four ed course um in 2018 each micro course was recognized for assessment through the micro credentialing service at otago polytechnic here in new zealand with the whole leader course approved for transnational credit transfer at OER partner universities in canada um the united states and the uk and then 2019 uh we introduced digital batteries and certificates for the micro courses and uh very significantly leader won the commonwealth of learning award for excellence in distance education materials earlier this year the new zealand qualifications authority assessed the course and considers it equivalent to 16 credits or 160 um learning hours at level five on the new zealand qualifications framework so next slide and with digital badges having been shown to help build confidence and motivation there's a lot of literature around that we also offer learners the option to complete a basic knowledge test and earn a digital badge um or a and or a certificate of participation and in this way learners can scaffold from a no stakes knowledge test through to a micro credential and then if they if they want to they can map those against um formal transfer credit in terms of adoption and adaptation we have several examples so at otago polytechnic leader has been offered as a self-directed elective in three of our undergraduate programs since july 2019 in papa in new guinea western pacific university has introduced leader as a compulsory foundation course for all students the OER foundation is currently working with oe global to host the course on oe global's own course site um some of the course has been incorporated into a design skills for oer sharing initiative for educators in the pacific islands um that went live uh about 10 days ago memory serves me right and yeah more than 1400 learners um enrolled in that course at the moment um we've also been working with unesco and the icde in partnership with the french ministry of education and the french thematic university to develop a french instance of the open education copyright open licensing course for um francophone africa and having demonstrated that it's possible to develop and host courses in other languages discussions are currently underway around possible versions of the course in hindi um bahasa malay and italian um so i am going to hand over to our esteemed colleague wane um who will round the presentation off for us cure everyone and thanks so much and clear for uh bringing bring us up to date with the history of the learning and the digital age course um at the onset i should just emphasize that when we talk about radical openness we mean radical in the original greek sense of radix the root that our foundation is openness rather than the alternative of radical as revolution so just a point of clarification before we get move ahead um at the orio foundation we are totally committed to free and open source software technology we host everything we do on free and open source uh technologies we don't host any proprietary software whatsoever in fact a condition of employment uh at the orio foundation is that no staff members are in fact allowed to use proprietary technologies as a matter of policy but that is our free free choice we don't impose that on uh on other folk around the world and and many of you in the room who are very familiar with free and open source software development will be familiar with these principles of the foster movement uh we subscribe to open and transparent planning in everything that we do releasing early and really releasing frequently uh in fact all our meetings of the OERU network are conducted openly and transparently we keep records of all our agendas in an open wiki powered by media wiki we are very into iterative design models uh you'll be very familiar with the adage and practice of you know achieve rough consensus and build running code and that's the way we run here at the OERU foundation one of the key facets of our work with developing learning in a digital age and in fact finding solutions for educators around the world to be working with this stuff was really figuring out solutions for collaborative design and development and that's one of the areas we you know free and open source software leads is in the whole question of robust version control um if you've got developers uh distributed all around the world you need to figure out how you keep control of revisions and improvements to software but similarly working with educators we need to figure out ways in which we deal with version control of collaborative developments um if a group of educators are working together on resources within the learning management system it's it's hard to keep detailed track of any changes or adaptations that are made through international collaborators and so we had to figure out ways in which we could deal with aspects of version control that would be palatable to average educators you know pushing educators into get is not necessarily an ideal scenario of course the work that we've done is we've done our best to try and figure out how you design and develop courses for reuse and remix using component-based systems which in fact is the power of the whole open source movement you know amazing technologies like Moodle which is our learning management system of choice rely on many components that were developed by the open source community so for example Moodle didn't have to develop open source database technologies in order to move their platform forward we could build and stand on the shoulders of giants that have you know developed other technologies so we needed to think about well how do we incorporate these come and you know aspects of you know a component-based solution for moving forward and of course committed to openness we we like to help our neighbors so everything that we do at the OVR foundation in terms of the technologies we host we actually publish the technical recipes for hosting any of the technologies that we have used in our ecosystem so Simone if you could move on to the next slide so just so this is a brief overview of the the authoring ecosystem that we use in order to facilitate version control we author all course content using media wiki on wiki educator which is our instance of the media wiki software essentially what we do is we build an outline of individual wiki pages which individual collaborators around the world can work on and collaborate but what the wiki provides us is detailed version control we have a bunch of open source scripts that members can click on in order to publish to a wordpress website that hosts content using an OVR you open source theme which provides a mobile responsive experience so that's the broad ecosystem that we use in terms of the publishing environment to deal with the version control issues and Simone if you move on to the next slide from from the learners perspective in this particular course learning in a digital age which is really about focusing on developing capacity of the digital fluencies of educators and learners we've decided to support a philosophy which helps learners to learn on the internet rather than learning via a single application like a learning management system and we've selected a number of best of breed open source technologies to help learners interact with each other and so for example we use mastodon as a federated instance of you know a social media website and open source alternative to twitter we strongly encourage learners to share the outputs and artifacts of their learning using their own personal blog sites we have an internal commenting engine many of you will be familiar with the open source web annotation system using hypothesis which i'm sure many of you are familiar with we use a open source social bookmarking technology developed by semantic scuttle and our interactions are powered by the discourse open source platform and we have systems within the ecosystem that aggregate mentions and posts across all these platforms into a twitter-esque like course feed on a course website in moodle that learners can keep track of the interactions that are going on within our ecosystem of course we do have the moodle lms which is our preferred learning management system platform and a number of institutions have actually built moodle courses that reference the course content hope hosted on this open ecosystem so moving on to the next slide there of course many i'm not going to go into all this detail here of the bullet list lists here but there are of course many advantages to using a fast-enabled distributed learning ecosystem the most important of which i think is the agency that we can provide to learners to host and control and retain control of the content that they produce along after courses have completed so which is a powerful enabler for learners within this ecosystem moving on to the next slide taking time constraints into account i i know gino is a tough taskmaster and will keep me within the time limits so we will move on to the next slide there when we're doing well with time you can take another three to five minutes if you wish oh but i've got another 40 slides gino i'm i'm just joking so in terms of thinking about individual capacity one of the big advantages both for faculty members and academics that engage in this authoring process as well as learners is through a process of activity based learning through incremental design they improve their digital proficiencies in using the tools of the internet as well as the complexities of open licensing and how you do all these things really embracing the the concept of free range learning out there on the internet and learn by doing model uh moving on to the next slide please cimon of course there are many many advantages for institutions within our network that are experimenting with some of our technologies being a charitable organization we have a strong focus in supporting institutions in the developing world and in fact is one of the reasons we selected a wordpress as a mechanism for publishing courses and so for institutions who want to replicate a course in a publishing infrastructure they could do so on a small you know digital ocean image for 20 or 30 a month to be able to publish and replicate any of OER use courses but just by way of example if anybody wanted to mirror or replicate the full suite of technologies we are using within the OER universities network our total infrastructure costs for you know what we are hosting which last year served well over 200 000 learners is under 9 000 US dollars so there are definite advantages for institutions that are interested in experimenting in these spaces but I think the big strength is what we are doing through the implementing implementation of these radical sort of open processes is demonstrating a low cost low risk but high impact innovation environment for institutions willing to dip their toes in figuring out how to make the best of free and open source software technologies so moving on to the next slide I think I should be wrapping up soon Gino you'll be pleased with that that I can complete within my time limits waiting waiting for this to come through given my challenging bandwidth connections in rural New Zealand we have similar issues Gino if you're interested in knowing so this is possibly just a catalyst for folk that are in the room is really an open question how else could radical openness support all of us in open education so thank you very much everyone for the opportunity to share and looking forward to the conversation thank you Wayne thank you Simone and thank you Claire that was that was wonderful I know that there are several comments and questions that have come in via the chat functionality I've not been able to see all of them but I can definitely relay the fact that there's lots of excitement and I think sort of anticipation of engaging more with all of your content and your projects and your platforms so from my side thank you all for some wonderful presentations I'm actually going to ask some questions myself first and go through the order of the presenters and and the sessions that they've presented for us and then after that Moetzo will help me to feel all of those questions and also help to relay the the comments that you may have missed out that were in the chat so firstly I'd like to go to Shiranika and some Shiranika you spoke about capacity building and my question for you is you mentioned that lots of this took place online can you comment perhaps on the tools that were used and then I have a follow-up question for you after that Shiranika yeah okay thanks you know actually in the first instance yeah from the beginning we used model because model is our learning management system so the all these online support was given via model but most of the time it's blended you know you have to give you have to give a face-to-face a lot of support with face-to-face workshops as well especially with the teachers but the model LMS support was there okay that's wonderful I see models are popped up every way yeah so it seems quite the fitting instance that we have this webinar I wonder if that's how the organizers kind of put us all together instead of the UNESCO OVR Shiranika you also mentioned that there were the lived experiences of the practitioners and the researchers so my question there is like you said that this was published in in one of your outputs do you think that this helped like to sort of promote openness and the adoption and use and creation of OVR amongst more people hearing from people and the sort of humanizing experience definitely because these experiences now for example we invited rather than us writing we invited the practitioners themselves to write their narratives the experiences right for example the all the school teachers who continued throughout they wrote their stories we call them stories sometimes they wrote in their native languages and we had to translate but then we published all those as OVR it's available online and it's it was published in print also the open university supported with the funding for that then no row 40 sorry row 40 project and some other books open and supported so anyway all these books are distributed through the ministry of education we distributed all these teachers stories among other schools you know so that that's the motivation for the others also to see stories of their peer teachers so that they also so these things are possible and these novel concepts to adopt it so I think definitely this approach supported in like spreading it more among the practitioners yeah thank you thank you I'm I'm incredibly interested in in sort of the love the experiences of practitioners in general but especially open practitioners because sometimes there's such a distance between who we are and what we do and how we share who we are and what we do in what we do so thank you for that maybe some maybe you could just respond like I think I'm not sure if it was yourself or Shiranika who who commented about some challenges in in the project and and like I know that with OVR very often it's in addition to what would be your normal sort of performance indicators or your role so inside the normal roles or was this in addition to what the educators that you work with and the researchers that you work with had to do so that was teaching and OVR sort of emerged endeavor yeah yeah very much very much part and parcel of what academics were engaged in doing so we we we didn't want to come there and sort of start talking technology or talking about OERs per se instead we wanted to talk about what is their core business what do they do so you know we had a bunch of people who were not from the education faculty people who had been engineers or chemists or something like this had no idea I mean you know in 2013 when I started talking about OER people thought that everything that was on the web was an OER see you're starting with that level of understanding of what we are talking about and yet this is an open university you would think that they would understand the idea of open so if if Shiranika can flesh out you know slide number four while I'm talking what what we started to do was to develop a framework from our conceptualization of how you can engage people into the adoption of open educational resources and this is where the idea of the learning engine came about now if you if you're seeing that slide the you see the image there there are a couple of boxes you know top down one of them says commitments the other one says learning outcomes the other one says learning context the other one says learning scenarios so these things have got nothing to do with OER this is the framing of learning and teaching this is how any teacher goes about developing the learning and teaching transaction so you begin about what you're going to do in your subject what are you going to do for your teacher for your students and then you develop the learning outcomes from those kinds of commitments and then you develop some sort of a context you know within which the subject matter needs to be understood then you develop problem scenarios develop activities and develop assessment items related to that and so on and so on so this is all educational focus on the side sits the the the wheels of the engine if you like and they they are the open educational resources and I think Martin's presentation sits beautifully with it so what what I think Martin's doing Martin's team is doing is brilliant as I can see it because they're trying to put resources somewhere on the site within model and and educators can focus on the the education the teaching and learning transaction which is their core business and then once they are clear about what they want to do was they're clear about a learning outcome once they're clear about a learning scenario then they go searching for the subject matter so the subject matter becomes a support for the learning transaction and this is the major shift that I think we we need to bring about in every country I've tried this in so many places I've done this in Australia I've done this in Canada done this in Fiji I've done this in Sri Lanka educators tend to let you on the content first you know you tend to find a textbook and then you teach to the textbook we're saying no don't go to the textbook worry about the learning and teaching transaction first let's figure that one out once that is done then you go and search for the content and that content can come from from anywhere and the fact that in a model supporting that I think this is going to be a great winner Martin you know I'm your greatest friend so this this is this this is brilliant I think we are on the same page here and and and the research part of it you know uh Gino this is where you're going is is when we took academics through this activity through this exercise or thinking through the learning and teaching transaction and searching for open educational resources uh at the end of it we said well now tell your story what was your story so that the academic then then tells the story of the journey through the process you know the lived experiences as you were saying and that is publishable product that's what we've been doing so this is how we this is how you bring about systematically systemic change and that's what we went about doing it but at the same time you know you need pressure from top down you need reward you need motivation from down you need policies in place so we also develop policies OER integration adoption integration policies so that you know what we were doing in the classrooms in the schools could be supported by policy direction so people say if people were saying what why are you doing this then you can say well wait a minute the institution is bought into this you know because there's a policy direction there's pressure from the top there's support from the top so I think you need you need both otherwise people will get frustrated we said well you know it's all very good for you to talk about this but I'm not getting this support from senior management so I think senior management needs to be on board in this one thank you those were exceptional responses and I completely agree that we need to sort of try to activate an ecosystem around us and not try to live in and operate in in sort of a vacuum way where what we do is sucked into the system but yesterday they were speaking about adding a sixth R onto the five hours of open I don't know if you saw that but we add the other one and it's recognition and I think that that's something that's so critical like in the systems that we operate in because our work doesn't get us promoted it doesn't get us tenure it doesn't get us an award you know the recognition I think is is very often just situated in the community so we speak about our loved experiences with one another and we can share openly with one another but when we share this with the institution it sort of falls into a vacuous area it sucked in somewhere and it isn't amplified systemically so thank you for that just one point one final point you know you reminded me what we tried to do was to turn teaching into a scholarly activity so the end of it you know it's a publishable product so anytime a teacher engages it engages in this process it can return into publication so this ties into publication rewards and promotions and those kinds of things so you see you got and you've got to sell this idea to senior management so unless senior management recognizes that teaching scholarship can lead to promotion it's not good enough so I think once they recognize that and then you work with the teaching academic then teaching becomes an exciting activity isn't it it's not just something you do for the day job but it's something that is part of your scholarship as opposed to the research that you do in the field that you are expert said thank you so just to add our vice chancellor himself was in the team he was a student in the OER based e-learning course with us as teachers as the vice chancellor so I'm just telling the institution's leadership support then at the MOOC he voluntarily engaged as a team member amid all his work he was a team member creating and there were other deans myself I was a dean at that time and another dean so I think that also helped thank you so much I have to just facilitate towards the next session presenters because of time today we were supposed to have four presentations by the way so having had only three and three remarkable ones at that it's meant that we've been afforded the luxury of more conversational time Martin and Paul I'd like to just come over to you too quickly I anticipate several questions coming your way in the galaxy that you both seem to have behind you so from my side I just see something like about Moodle net and I wrote in my comments here it's like adding curation to your engagement with open and and with Moodle so thank you so much I see infinite possibilities for our university at Mandela my question to you both perhaps what types of support are available for users Paul I see that you've got that all those screenshots available is there real-time support perhaps sorry Martin go ahead you have more of an idea than I do well so we do you mean support in getting it running and ongoing use of it well at this point we're still trying to prove the concept I want to make sure that it actually works it's actually useful it's not just going to create another dead site out there on the internet that it you know we really are still in the research phase so this this first at the moment what you saw was like a beta version of very early kind of minimum viable product then we will continue working on it but the the actual team making it is very small and at this stage for the next few months we're building it up as an open source project which means we want early adopters to come in who believe in the con who can start to see the concept is working and then help us grow that like because there's a lot of things still missing and things we could still do but I want the direction to be driven by actual practitioners here so that we're actually researching and developing it together very much like moodle itself in the in the early days particularly it was just a small group of people using it in anger so to speak and that's what we want now so we don't have formal services plan we haven't got a big support team we haven't got a lot of that behind it yet I you know moodle's paying for the invest we're investing in the team this at this point if it becomes popular and successful then I expect it might be possible that we have something like a moodle cloud for moodle net where you go look I want to have a moodle net site click and you would pay something small for the hosting of that and there could be various levels of support attached with that but once you talk about support you're talking about people's time and people's time is valuable and you should always pay for people's time you shouldn't pay for resources and software open source open education resources we all agree once you've paid for it to be made it should be free it should be everywhere but you do have to pay people for support so that's that starts getting a bigger thing that we'll get to once we know it's actually useful okay thank you for that Paul would you like to add something to that perhaps yeah I was just going to say that yeah while these things are ongoing you can get us through the communities at moodle.org of course if you need to discuss anything we're checking the trackers daily and we're putting together the roadmap based on all this feedback so it'll be great if people could get involved with that okay thank you that's wonderful I'm asking because our learning developers are in the room as well so I'm fast tracking a sign up and integration into our LMS here and then another question the version 3.9 you said is where this functionality kicks in what if you've got an older version upgrade yeah so there was some some integration code was put into moodle LMS in the version from over a year ago now in 3.9 so anything after that will work with pushing back stuff back to the LMS okay even even if you if you are stuck for an older version for whatever it's you know it's okay you once you get to the moodle once you find it something in moodle net you can still copy and paste or do whatever you would normally have done in moodle to get things in before we're just trying to make it easier and better okay thank you so much for that I think that I'd like to just field a couple of questions to Claire and then to Wayne and Claire you spoke and Wayne referred to the philosophy of release early release often could you comment on that please because I think that's such a valuable little piece of philosophy that we can share with other people from my perspective so I'm also seconded as part of my role at Otago Polytechnic I'm seconded for half of my working week to the OER foundation for various projects and yeah I guess from my perspective the release early release often has become a bit something in my mind for all the work that we do with Wayne he'll be able to say a lot more about it I believe it comes from open practices open education practices okay Wayne feel free to jump in it's a big topic right I mean I think this represents the issue of crossing the chasm from sharing to learn to learning to share and what I mean by that is as educators we all appreciate the value of sharing open educational resources and so many educators are comfortable with sharing learning outputs for the benefit of others right but the whole notion of actually learning how to share is a cultural shift and and and one which is hard to make in higher education because the reward systems are based on individual outputs right you are measured by your research output in you know esteemed journals as working as you know an individual academic whereas the whole open source kind of movement is a is a very different culture you earn your stripes and your kudos to what you've actually shared any free and open source software developer worth their salt who is embarking on a new project the very first thing they will go and do is go and see what open source code is available that I can use and integrate into the application I'm developing and that's not the first thought that you know comes into the mind of an academic who's engaging in OER so I think it's this cultural shift right you know learning learning how to share and it's a big step and it's daunting for many but you know taking small steps we can cover a lot you know a big distance right so it's a good question well thank you and thank you for that response you also mentioned earlier on building individual capacity which is a sort of theme where I'm particularly interested in with radical openness and the fact that you had a lot of sort of student facing platforms that you shared there is there a list of alternate sort of tick and tools that you you sort of engage with via your educators that could be shared perhaps sure I mean one of our philosophies that the at the OER foundation is to make sure that no learner will ever be required to purchase a proprietary software license in order to engage and access learning and this is very deeply in our philosophy of provision so we make sure that all learners will be able to complete all learning activities using free and open source software and we design our courses around the range of tools that are available but by the same token we do respect freedom of choice and that is we we we we will not deny learner success for those who choose to use proprietary solutions in completing their learning activities but at the very least we ensure that every learner and particularly reserving a large audience in the developing world will be able to complete everything without the need to purchase a proprietary software license or in fact sacrifice their personal data by subscribing to the so-called no cost services that are are available on the internet and this is one of the things we you know try to achieve as we as we're moving forward so yeah we're happy to share you know anything we have to help our neighbours and let me just leave it there what I'll do is I'll learn afterwards I'll share a link to the course that we've been talking about and particularly I'll share a link to the pages which explain the different platforms that we suggest our learners use so that you'll you'll see them there and how they fit together thank you Simone and Wayne Simone it would be good if you could post that on the owig connect pages so that yes they are available there for all because this will be released thank you so much Moetza is our rapport here for this event we've still got 30 minutes before our session is over so let's have Moetza pop up and maybe help facilitate the questions which were in the chat and direct it from participants to all of you over to you Moetza thank you for helping out thank you Gino happy to help a great discussion so far actually some of the particular questions that popped up in the chat line have already been answered in the in the chat line itself but I must say that some of the questions that were not answered in the chat line were actually incorporated partly in your questions in the discussion that you've held so far so still there is still a lot of questions don't be afraid there we will fill out this 13 minutes that we have and my suggestion is if you agree those questions that really remained I suggest to not go through them in the order of their appearance in the chat line but I've done my best to structure them from more let's say general or strategic questions towards more concrete tool or action oriented questions if you agree so we can start with with the more strategic ones and also I love the idea yeah great as I'm the rapporteur a rapporteur for this session I would also give a personal request actually as I was asked by the organizers to report very much in relation to the OER recommendations to UNESCO recommendations especially the area of equitable and inclusive OER and capacity building if the the presenters could relate as much as possible to to the challenges to the advantages disadvantages of their projects in relation to those two areas of action it would be really great this can then make our report even better than it will be coming from your presentations so if you agree I'll just start Gino with the first strategic so to speak questions related to Shironikas and Som's presentation we got a great question by Igor Lesko and he said I would like to know how you conceptualize systemic change within the scope of your project we already heard a bit from Shironikas and Som regarding this changing of cultures scholarly practice but still I think it's a really good questions from from the strategic perspective how you defined systemic change okay so I think Som would be the best person to answer that question that's a hard one Shironikas you know it's a tough question and I tried to address it in a couple of my comments earlier on the top down and bottom up approach that I was talking about is part of the equation but two things that I want to highlight is again captured in slide four if you go back to it at some point later when you wanted to is adopting an educational focus approach that academics would relate to as opposed to coming from a technical perspective and an educational resources perspective so we started to have a conversation about learning and teaching which is which is everybody's business so they understand it you know and and then try to demonstrate to regular academics how open educational resources can be factored into the equation without changing the emphasis on learning and teaching and assessment so so we had a we had a a plan for the orchestration of the adoption of open educational resources the second thing that was part of the equation was adopting a design-based approach so what we what we did was to follow through a very widely recognized approach of analysis design development and iterative testing and then reflection on the process which is what I was saying to Gino led to the production of individual reflections and group reflections and subsequently into a publishable product so our focus very much was on trying to help regular academics with their core business which is learning and teaching in physics chemistry education whatever so we were not coming to the equation as a bunch of educational technologies or experts trying to shove something down the throat without any purpose but at the same time we had the backing of senior management we had the support of policy directions we had the support of senior management in how they would reward academics uh for the engagement in open educational practices and the use of open educational resources so systematic approach but systemic uh change so that's how we were focused on on bringing about systemic change change across the organization by adopting a very systematic approach to what we were trying to do now how successful have we been will be seen over a period of time but as some of the data that that has been reported elsewhere not so much in this presentation is that we have seen a significant amount of change amongst people from negative zero if you might want to call it you know no idea of open educational resource to actual use of open educational resources and the development of open educational resources as well so significant change across the board from from people who had had no idea we had people you know a group who were not from the education faculty knew nothing about the educational jargon that we were throwing around uh but suddenly uh engaging with open educational resources as if they were they were from from faculty to educational educational technology thank you so much thank you so much some um another question for your presentation came from Simone Wood she asked what support did you get from your institution or from government for these various OER initiatives any special funding and let me just mention this also relates to the request for me as a reporter to just you know also cover a bit whether funding financial budgeting issues are involved and I would just really like to ask for really short feedback short responses so that we we get also to the others in the session yeah thank you okay so I'll respond to that because actually all those research projects supported by other organizations like the Commonwealth of Learning SEMCA and the Roe for the IDRC so they are like internationally funded research projects not specifically a government funded but the university itself you know the university funded in certain aspects but the ministry was very supportive but not in funding but the support and you know we have to get the authority and you know permissions and all those things are there but funding came from outside these but they were not very big funding so I would know all those things are managed with very limited funding because we were dealing with these teachers and you know the teaching learning integrated with the existing teaching learning process so I think that answered it yes yes it has in in in my way so it was not a lot of funding but still this was not a barrier for you to proceed successfully with the with the project right it's a it's a good point I think then over to Martin and Paul a great presentation what I would really like to ask here is about some good points bad points advantages disadvantages of your project as you see it from the perspective of equitable and inclusive OER if you could comment a bit on this and if this is also in relation to the future challenges or future plans of your project yeah very much well it's a subject close to my heart I think anything that's open is better for equity you know allows more possibilities for getting the thing getting the access to it and sharing it and and also for people to take part in modifying it and improving it and and adding more equity so in in the software world you know we're offering counter accessibility as a major equity issue and accessibility is you know something we spend a lot of time thinking about and working on that's for the content that goes in there it's going to be the content of the like we aren't providing we aren't we aren't making content we're just making a container for content we're trying to enable and empower people to start curating content in a nice easy way I think as I said in one of the questions the answers there I would love to get more involved with OER projects and show how MoodleNet can increase the social impact of a project so somebody gets three years funding to work on creating some great content for a particular context great um then what happens and and as you know you've probably if you've been in this field for a while there are hundreds of these projects littered back through history and where is that stuff you can't always find it sometimes it's put on a website it's great for a couple years then someone takes that website down or whatever like who's looking after it there's no long term sustainability for this stuff it just we have all these little funded projects so I want to try and get us to think more sustainably where can we put it for the long term where can we put it so it's still around in 50 years and and this is a step towards that so with those projects I'd love to people to start saying well yes we're doing this and we have a strategy for putting it into MoodleNet which will look after the longevity and sustainability somewhat and secondly more access you can maybe more people will find it more people will have access to those things it will be easier for someone in a you know a country with not much funding for education to be able to use the very best content that everybody's working on and that the UNESCO are fully behind that's a long content answer was that what you're looking for I'll do one more thing actually yes SDGs so the SDG I'm a huge supporter of SDGs have been for many years I would love to see us as an as an open education as open education proponents to explicitly make content that wraps SDGs into it and by that I mean all content so an example I would use is like engineering content so you're teaching engineers and it's about you know mathematics and physics and dynamics and statics and stuff like that but in those the in that content which can be quite technical you often can work in examples so if you're going to be talking about building bridges well maybe make the example about building bridges in a very you know in a you know a poverty stricken area that needs it or are we building technology to open up opportunities or are we overcoming racism are we overcoming you know like you can use you can make examples that show well engineering is for good purposes and it's the same with every subject every subject can be applied to everything else and in our content we can work in SDG references right we can talk about equality this you know gender equality in every subject and I think if we were explicit about that and if we started making projects about that and we started pushing it out through Moodle Net and those kind of initiatives to all the schools and all of the universities so that a particular teacher with a particular class if this great SDG infused content was a click away it would start being used it would start actually affecting the next generation and so that's kind of my big plan if you like where I'm just trying to work on some engineer some Moodle Net for that but like that's what I would love to see happening in the world personally. Thank you Martin that's a wonderful answer Moisa I'd just like to ask I'll take support a question Igor I know that we had an extra 20 minutes before and since that presenter and presentation was not offered do you mind if we take a couple more minutes yes that's okay don't worry Gina please proceed okay thank you because yeah I'm loving the conversation and the discussion and I think it's really valuable inputs coming here so back to you Moisa thank you Igor. Thank you Gina and Igor they are really great to have a few more minutes Martin I like this suggestion actually the idea about taking into consideration the SDGs and the interactions between SDGs and in this way also as see it as an opportunity to promote OER and build for that wonderful idea this will get into the report for sure we have a there was a lot of conversation regarding your presentation or but the questions have already been answered in the chat line so I will not repeat them here it was really some technical stuff regarding the use of Moodle Net but still there are two questions I will I will combine them into one actually or just I mean read them one after the other the first was by Koshala it did not get a direct answer as at least as far as I can see in the chat by Koshala the question is Moodle Net is a very interesting project and should make strides in the sharing of resources by removing barriers to access I see many opportunities for our university once we create but now the question comes once we create our own server would we be able to mark certain resources as shareable but only within our university and then there's the second question by Simone Wood which is also similar it's a technical one so perhaps you can you can consider it together with Koshala she asked can you reverse the process for example take something from your own Moodle course and add it to Moodle Net at the click of a button I'll I'll keep going with this poll if it's all right so you have the that so Moodle Net you can download an instance and put everything in it and have it connected to your Moodle and you never need to publish it to anybody it can be completely local so you don't have to be part of the Moodle network and so that's what you would do you would and if you wanted to have a mix you might have two Moodle Net installations potentially I don't know Paul can answer the future and maybe it's part of that open source development as to whether we get more granular inside it inside it but I feel I could start adding complexity personally and you don't want to add too much complexity to a system like this you want to keep it nice and simple so you know you could say to your start to your team look this one's our local one and if you want to make it public to the world go on to Moodle.net and put it there like on that instance the second question definitely you will be able to push things from Moodle into Moodle Net but there is work to do there on on how and and you may some of you may remember a very early incarnation of Moodle Net from over 10 years ago and we actually had this feature in there and you could push it to Moodle.net then but it was not designed how it is now and didn't really it didn't really work at all um the problem is if you have a whole course with you know 50 activities and a whole lot of stuff going on and you want to push a whole course onto Moodle.net how does the person consuming that know what it is or understand what's in there or so you need to kind of x-ray the thing and and process it and and give you a good preview of what's going on and potentially even load it up on a Moodle site so you can actually play with it and look through it and um that's one one thing there um but it's quite easy in Moodle to capture any one activity or one resource or two or three or five or 10 or 50 into a backup and and have that as an OER um but we don't want to do too much work around there until we just until we've shown that the basic concept is actually something people want and is working. I think from the response itself or we can confidently assume people want this I hope so I've been dreaming of this for like 10 years you know it's always been there and I just haven't we've had other things to do but um um and Paul has taken the team really even even in the past three months that he's been with us that's really through this final push to to get this version up and I'm really happy with how it's coming together now. Okay thank you so much I see that Andrew's just posted the link to the becoming an open education influencer course which was my my online course by the way um which is what you were speaking about which is linked integrally to the SDGs so this is part of the open education for a better world um program which is sort of really embedded in addressing the SDGs directly through making content um back to you Moetza. Yeah thank you uh the last couple of questions or one combined question is in relation to Simone's Claire's and Wayne's presentation and actually I would like to pose this question and also bring this to the report I will compose of this session so towards the end of the presentation I think it was Wayne's part you mentioned the advantages for the learners and is it possible for you to reflect a bit or elaborate a bit on this from the perspective of the UNESCO OER recommendation the equitable and inclusive OER and capacity building both areas from the advantages for learners that would be really good for the report if possible Moetza yeah thank you very much an important question and in the spirit of inclusiveness rather than me trying to respond to the question I'm wondering if I could maybe open it up to some of the participants who are in the room uh because I am particularly interested in finding out how radical openness can support uh you know open and inclusive education and there are many experienced colleagues in the room I see Dr Ramesh Sharma and Professor Eba Ossa Nielsen uh who are with us in the room and I'm sure there are many others and maybe just if they want to put up their hands if they microphone enabled to open up the floor to colleagues in the room um to you know to help elucidate that question if I may be so presumptuous I think it's a wonderful idea feel free to put your cameras on and we can have this group chat I like this idea of just facing one another as well who'd like to go first and Niel I see you've got your hands raised would you like to go you can put your camera on if you wish it's not the requirement we can yeah the net is pretty slow yeah so I'm not going to go on my camera otherwise it will get yeah so yeah I'm Anil from Kerala India and this is my first time I'm joining OEG I'm confident so it's great to know a lot of things from you I'm learning a lot of things from you all in here in Kerala I'm running an open education project where we are trying to create an open education platform where we are going to deliver open education resources and learning services together on a single platform so both resources and learning services services like mentoring tutoring coaching conducting webinars seminars training workshop training and workshops for both both educators and learners so people we are not not that much aware of open education and we are trying to create awareness among them and what we are trying to do now is we are trying to pull as many open education resources from internet from various international and national books and we are pulling it and we are distributing it to schools and libraries where they can access it offline so many schools they don't have in network productions and there are connectivity issues so what we are trying to do now is we take off all these resources and put in store and install it in schools and libraries so that learners can access it for free so we are not charging anything for the service or not for data because it's all almost free from it so we have full Khan Academy offline videos simulations are there wikipedia so the vacationaries are there so we are trying to pull as much as and the next step will be to have our own content we are trying to create our own content so that we can put in a cloud or as martin put doodle we have already created a model that i just created and we will try to share as much contents through model and all so this is what we are trying to do and it's not that much easy for us to condemn it we are people not that much aware even the funding part we we are we are trying to get fund from through crowdsourcing so we were able to fund around 75,000 Indian rupees that means 1000 dollars so that's what the price is going and we have around 50 of them right now people team we have an advisory board a volunteer leadership group is there and a core team is there and we are trying to set up a platform ecosystem ecosystem where everything can be accessed by the learners for free of cost so we're not going to put the cost on it so everything will be free both resources and learning services so that's the short of what my program and it's called project smart project smart where smart is an acronym smart means study materials access and transfer really so as it's based on open resource they can access and they can transfer take it away home that's what we are trying to do thank you so much for the opportunity thank you Anil i i actually just posted into the chat there that you should be looking at the open education for a better world program the Joseph Stefan Institute in Slovenia Moetsas involved there as well Moetsa perhaps Moetsas having to leave now as well so she wants to just say goodbye to everyone too thank you Moetsa you've been wonderful Anil have a look at OE4BW there's an edu scope that's happening in October I think it's the 18th to 21st Moetsa yeah and and sign up for that event Anil there are several of your compatriots from India who've been participants across the the annual cohorts and there's a wealth of already existing and high quality OER in text and multimedia formats for you to use you don't have to go out there and recreate the wheel it's available for you Gramesh I see that you've got your hand raised thank you Zena I'd like to share on two fronts first about Moodle in this you know pandemic time since all the universities they were forced to go online so I have helped some of the universities and I know many people around here and particularly when they both have worked very closely Professor Moodle Kaushik she is now provides chancellor in a Usha Martin university here so and some other institutions they were looking for the kind of open platforms for to be used as LMS and for web conferencing too so Martin will be happy to know that I could convince some universities and now they are very happy in running their courses on Moodle in fact if there is a website it is called as Maths Passion M-A-T-H-S Maths Passion dot I-N perhaps and this boy he got he attended one of my training program and after that he was so energized that he created this website all blue color then class 8 9 10 11 mathematics course like that so and when he informed me that sir I got training from you and now I have created this website I felt very happy so so that is first thing and then you know I was surprised when the people they were trying to go because to teach online some web conferencing tool and particularly when it is more than 100 because google stopped after shifting to enterprise solution that 250 restriction was there and then they took it now zoom allows you 100 participants in the free version google also 100 and then when they want to go live then there was some difficulty means live streaming on youtube or other things and I told the people that yes look there is jitsi jitsi jitsi which is super easy you just copy paste your the key take from youtube and paste it then and you go immediately from there like that so I was able to you know help some of the institutions and second I consider myself as the OER brand ambassador of OERU I convinced some of the universities colleges in India and in Pakistan some other neighboring countries that to join this network so that you can be benefited and you can also add I like the you know the the quote by vain that from share to learn move to learn to share like that so and very recently one of my student for way for bw project she has created a course on innovative pedagogies for gifted as well as solo learners so that course has been very popular and I think it is a very interesting and important step towards inclusive education because here not only some of the material we took from the already existing sources but other things that we requested some of the real people who had their kids falling into that category and requested them that can you make a video explaining that how did you manage means the education of your child or some other difficulties and we put them on the as a free course and it was offered there and we intend to you know have a rerun of that in next year after a few months so thank you Ramesh thank you so much for that Wayne I'm going to hand over to you for the last couple of minutes I see you have your hand raised and then we'll do a quick closing and finish at 10 past exactly thank you Gina it wasn't the hand raising this is an old age issue I was wanting to signal an applause so I wasn't putting my hand up for a question so you can wrap up if you need to maybe if I can put this out there and and say like there's a minute for each of the presenters to say a final something please be brief and to the point and then we will wrap up in that last few seconds so over to you Shiranika we can see you now you are muted though okay so finally I managed to put on the video or you'll see my phone actually the issue it was with my laptop anyway it's a great experience it was a very great session and thank you so much for moderating so well and I'm very happy to have presented our experiences and a lot of discussion went on and I hope the discussion will continue among the group of open practitioners thank you so much for giving this opportunity thank you over to you Martin and Paul I look I'll just say thanks for everyone for coming I want to thank Open Education Global is a tremendous organization bringing us together like this this is how we keep the energy to fight the fight because we are in the minority and we are the people who can see better ways to do things against all this corporate mad divisive capitalist stuff going on you know we need to stick together and we need to work together to succeed so thanks and Paul absolutely thank you Paul so I have my thanks as well and thank you for those who are now on moodle now I'm watching you just to see what you're doing so yeah thanks for I think those resources and give us some feedback get involved yeah let's work together thank you you're welcome thank you over to you Wayne oh let me let me leave the last words to my colleagues Simone and Claire who've done the heavy lifting and putting this together so let me hand over to Simone and Claire yes it's been a great opportunity to share with you all yes I'm quite excited by hearing about MoodleNet which I should go and sign up to because yes the Tiger Polytechnic is also a Moodle user so and yeah we struggle with ways to get our academics to understand about OER and even when they like the idea actually using it is difficult so I can see that has great potential for for an easy way into using and contributing OER more so that's one takeaway for me thanks very much for everybody Claire thank you yeah just thank you to everyone for your input and for your attention I agree with Simone MoodleNet I think could be really quite I don't know life changing perhaps too strong yeah in terms of getting our our colleagues to share resources and and really sort of start that ripple effect hopefully yeah that would be amazing and some really thought-provoking aspects of each presentation so thank you thank you to you all so I don't need to say much more I think that it's it's quite evident that there are amazing opportunities going on in OE Global for the rest of you I present at 6 p.m. this evening so that's eight hours from now where I can field some of these questions that I do see coming about BOEY please look on the OEG connect pages for more information you can type in the hashtag open ed influences and find out more about the course and what we do thank you everyone thank you Igor for being such a wonderful tech support thank you Moitzer for a wonderful, reputating engagement it's always a pleasure working with you thanks to all of the presenters again wonderful wonderful work and yeah I look forward to seeing more of you all across the span of OE Global 21 from outside thank you and 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