 Bonjour, hello. Shall we get seated and start? On s'assied gentiment, comme ça on est tous prêts, et je vais passer la parole à, I will pass on to Karin Bernault, president of Nantes University, for the welcome. Mr Executive Director of Open Education Global, Mr Co-Chair, dear collins, dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to express a very warm welcome to our beautiful city of Nantes for the 2022 edition of the International Reference Congress on Open Education. It is our pleasure to meet face to face, finally, as we just said, and to welcome you who have come from all over the world. I am very pleased in my capacity as co-chair to open this event, which is taking place for the first time in France and more widely in a French speaking country. Let me take this opportunity to thank the Executive Directors of Open Education Global, Mr Paul Stacey and Mr Igor Lesko, as well as the members of the Open Education Consortium for selecting our candidacy. We should have held this conference last year here, but the health crisis decided otherwise and forced us to adapt by proposing a two-stage organization, a Congress in 2021 with online lectures and this 2022 face-to-face edition that focuses mainly on the implementation and the recommendation adopted in 2019 by UNESCO on Open Educational Resources. I would also like to thank the teams at Nantes University who have been hard at work for the past two years on the organization of these two editions, masterfully led by the other co-chair of this Congress, Colin Laigera, owner of the UNESCO chair in Open Educational Resources and Artificial Intelligence. And since I'm mentioning the UNESCO chair, it's also worth noting that this edition is placed under the Eminent patronage of UNESCO. And I would also like to greet the other partners of this Congress, Paide-la-Loire-Région, Nantes-Métropole and the National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS. Allow me, as well, to express my pleasure at saying many colleagues from Nantes University in this room, a proof of the enthusiasm generated by the theme of open education within our institution. In fact, this subject is at the heart of our policies for Nantes University. We support Open Educational Resources by joining the Open Education Consortium in 2012 and, more recently, we expand the portfolio of the vice president of Nantes University en charge of academic training, Arnaud Gevel, to open education. Imanay will be speaking during the K-3 session this Wednesday to explain why and how Nantes University is an open university. Without disclosing too much about what we are going to say, I would like to briefly mention the major challenge that Open Education represents for our institution. It is one of the pillars of the open approach to which Nantes University is committed in order to spread knowledge as widely as possible. We are indeed convinced that in order to accomplish our mission, to ensure social progress, to create new knowledge, to accelerate scientific discoveries and to solve the complex problems raised by the crisis that we are going through, we must ensure the dissemination of knowledge beyond our walls and even beyond the university environment, regardless of borders. We are therefore developing a global policy in favour of open education but also open science, open innovation and even open government. I would like to insist on the subject of sharing knowledge beyond the walls of the university because there are many issues at stake. These issues are democratic. Access to education, to knowledge is a first step towards citizenship. To make knowledge accessible to the greatest number of people is to allow individual emancipation for the benefit of the general interest. It is to allow each person not to be subjected to public opinion and to form his own opinion. The challenges are also cultural. Ideas, concepts, the way we teach our research or do research reflects our culture. In this area, as in others, diversity is essential. And it is therefore important that as many countries as possible engage in this logic of sharing in order to allow intercultural dialogues. Finally, the stakes are linguistic. To give greater visibility at the international level to works published in French language and act in favour of Francophonie. This multi-dimensional approach to knowledge sharing should facilitate dialogue between disciplines and promote the interdisciplinarity that is essential for the cross fertilisation of knowledge. The emergence of new ideas and the study of the complex issues we face. In this logic, knowledge is not a competitive market but an object of disinterested sharing. It's a common good. This is why open access to knowledge is returned into the statutes of non-universities and is part of its DNA. So as you can see, holding such a conference and bringing together specialists in open education from all continents represents a real opportunity for our community. Meeting our counterparts, comparing practices and sharing experiences is a wonderful occasion for us during these three days. To conclude, I wish a lot of success to this conference which will allow us to discuss, collaborate, innovate and celebrate the openness of education together. Thank you for your attention. Thank you very much. I'd like to add my welcome as well. Welcome to Nantes. I'm Paul Stacey, the Executive Director of Open Education Global. It's really my thrill to welcome you all here after such a hiatus of several years of not being able to see each other in person. Putting on a conference like this is a major undertaking and I wanted to acknowledge and thank our hosts here Nantes University who also helped us host the online conference last year. We've been delighted to work with them and it's been a real pleasure all the way along. We do have for this conference the patronage of UNESCO and the conference is in part focused on the UNESCO OER recommendation. We thank them for that. I have a number of sponsors that I always like to acknowledge right at the front. Here are the sponsors for this year's conference and they are almost all here although some of them were unable to make it for various reasons. Thank you sponsors for supporting us in hosting this global event. To do a conference like this is really a community effort and there are conference chairs Kareen and Colin. It's a big initiative to take on the responsibility of hosting the conference and I wanted to acknowledge that as well as the program chairs Wayne Holmes is here with us and he was working with Davo Orlick who as a co-chair on this for the actual program that you have in front of you over the next three days. And then behind the scenes Melanie and Salen have been doing a lot of legwork to support not only this event and the logistics around it but also the social activities that will take place over the next couple of nights. So thank you Melanie and Salen. And then my OE Global Team so Egor Lesko leads the creation and production process of the OE Global Conference and it's a massive effort, thank you Egor. And the rest of the team also contributes enormously to it and all of the graphics that you see the signage, the stickers and the posters are designed by our creative director Mario Bedilla who I'm really happy is here. And Jean Gondol for Technology Ayla for Communications Rachel did all the finance side and Liz Yada and Alan Levine who's hosting he's not here with us but he's actually hosting the virtual online component of this conference. We are really thankful for him and doing all of that work. And there's a lot of you who many of you were peer reviewers for the many proposals that we received and I just want to acknowledge you because behind the scenes there are always a lot of people involved in putting on a big event like this. We're also delighted this year for the first time since I've been here to have students who are studying hotel and catering and their teacher here who are volunteering helping with everything from the coat check to the concerts of the conference so thanks to them. I mentioned that the program is focused on the UNESCO OER recommendation we have 99 different sessions with 95 speakers there's over 270 people registered for this conference the conference program is broken up into keynotes, plenaries, thematics and learning labs and all of those have session chairs so thank you if you're chairing a session don't forget to do things on track doing the intros and managing the time and then in addition this year we have a number of special organizational workshops that are taking place throughout the three days and I think some of you are here for those and I hope they also go equally well. One of the things that's unusual about last year's program and this year's program is that we are focused on making this an international multilingual conference so we do support we did support a call for proposals in different languages and so we have sessions in Arabic English, French and Spanish and we have a whole series of language chairs who will be speaking in a session later on today and then we have three wonderful keynotes today's keynote will feature Cyan Proctor, thank you Cyan in advance and we'll get to you in a moment and then tomorrow we'll have Andrea Rose from Ecuador and then we'll have on the last day Karine and so I think these three keynotes are really exceptional and I will now turn it over to Colin to say a few more words about the program. Thank you Paul. So yes, I'm Colin Laguerre and I'm from Nanche Université and I'm a co-conference chef for this conference. So I wanted to also say a few things about to welcome you a few things about the program. So I'm building up time so you can see all the names of the people that I did want to add without being able to read the list and have photographs of them all but it has been a huge effort of a lot of people and I think this is about to say thank you to all these people for helping. So how are we doing this like this? So this was the key message I wanted to pass is that when we were all stuck at home, we all remember this we were arguing that we were trying to get back to have the conference with everybody present but some people said we can't go back to normal right? This is not going back to normal we have to do things differently and so I think we we did a huge effort in that line of thinking what can we do differently learning some lessons from what has happened over the past few years and that's where we introduced this idea of multilingualism there's been another idea we want to help people from the global south to come. So in a joint effort we actually found grants to be able to help people from other countries to be able to make it to not. Then we thought well can we sort of try and share with the rest of the world and this is why we've got this room and the room at the end called la salle de sang which are going to be streamed during the three days and so this is going to be visible or anywhere in the world and it's going to also be made accessible later so on the different platforms people will be able to view these things so it has got some consequences I'll talk about in a second and then the fourth thing is the interaction with the outside so we didn't want to have a session with a hybrid session with people sitting in the room watching a screen so everybody's in the room giving the tour save I think one exception but people from the outside can actually be listening to what's happening and through a different number of features they can actually participate and discuss with you in different areas we've organized for that so I'm going to talk a little bit more about multilingualism and also about the streaming but before that I wanted to hand over to Wayne, perhaps so the Wayne tells us a few words about the actual process of the reviewing and how the program was built Wayne either over here or ok Thanks Colin I just wanted to point out a few things firstly I signed up to be a program chair in this conference and was told it was going to be 7 months preparation and here we are 14 months later and we're still going strong so I wanted to thank the team for that so as Paul has already mentioned he's taken some of my fund already we had 108 proposals from 123 people and each of those proposals was reviewed by at least 2 reviewers so the number that Paul mentioned earlier and so again I want to have my thanks to all the reviewers who helped in that process without them we wouldn't be doing this today we accepted 97 proposals in the end which works out to a 90% acceptance rate which is pretty good now I don't think that's because of choosing which ones we would accept because the quality of the submissions was really high so thank you to all of you for that as Paul also mentioned 99 sessions, 100 speakers 4 languages and the multilingualism that Colin has mentioned so far I also wanted to say thank you to everybody who has been working hard on that because it's fundamentally important it's been an incredible challenge but hopefully we are moving forward and it's a stepping stone for next year and final person I wanted to thank Wuzd and Dava Orlik who is my programme co-chair unfortunately he's not here thanks to the British airplane company EasyJet he actually went to he went to Paris yesterday rather than Nantes and he's currently on a train hopes to be here with an hour ok so thank you everybody and I hope you have a fantastic conference ok so a word about multilingualism so why multilingualism so because we're in France and we've heard the word francophonie pronounced earlier but also because it's not just an issue for the French it's an issue for many many languages so to keep it brief if openness is about breaking barriers one of the key barriers we have is language and it matters in some topics it matters less if you're doing mathematics or if you're doing computer science usually there's a common ground on which everybody is able to speak some sort of common language but as soon as we're talking about education or about ideas it makes the conversation much more difficult for somebody who's not fluent in the language of the conference so we thought about this and in 2021 since it was an online conference we used webinars to be able to start ideas and it took on I mean people loved it people were happy with it we made really astonishing discoveries of how the same topic could be talked about in very different ways if it was spoken about in French, in Spanish or in English for example so we thought you know this is something we've got to continue building on so we have so this time we try to go for only four languages A because it's technically difficult but also because there are six official languages for United Nations and so for UNESCO and the two others we did not have any submissions for so we were left with Arabic with Spanish, with French and with English so then once we got all these submissions which were written in these different languages we assigned them thanks to the job done by Wayne and Davour to reviewers of those languages so they were reviewed in those languages and then we had this program to put up with some titles in Arabic to get them into the program isn't quite easy but if I end up by saying am I sure that this is where the title is so you actually did we managed to put all this together and then we had the choice of sort of either just mixing everything up and letting people get on with it or trying to say can we do thing modestly and what we try to do was be modest and out of five rooms because there are five rooms for the conference four of them or what we will call monolingual so they are not English right they are monolinguals some rooms at one moment will be for a whole session in English or in French or in Spanish and then some rooms are going to be multilingual actually all the multilingualism is going to be in this room so in the same session when you'll be sitting here you will be hearing it in one talk in French and perhaps the next one in English and perhaps the next one in Arabic so what happens then with translations it costs a lot of money so we couldn't do that but since some of us work in an AI lab well with the help of four students who are sitting down with the back there we developed this thing over here so this thing over here is an app that is in this moment showing you clouds of words so at the beginning it took a while to cold start because it needs to have some data this is how things happen with AI you need some data little by little it'll start understanding let's say what is happening and we'll start having better and better clouds of words so you can get clouds of words or you can get the actual sentences we're not passing the sentences in this room so of course you can sit here and see what's happening but you can also download not the link to the web page which is just a web page and if you have tried on that web page you can actually play yourself the cloud of words or have the automatic translation of what's happening so you can choose and have it on your app at the same time so I don't have the QR code here it's on the doors as you come in you can get the QR code and then you can follow the debates in your favourite language this is all very experimental this may be a disaster and we may be laughing at saying oh look I saw the word pepper up here during Karin's talk clearly it wasn't working there are things like that that are going to happen but our belief is that the future goes in that direction but the future has to be written this may not be the right answer this only may be part of the answer but we do believe that multilingualism is going to be the answer somewhere ok so that's about it for the multilingualism no not quite it I did want to mention the names of the students who are over there Julien, Mamadou et Maxime they did the hard work and they were helped by Andréane Victor who helped them on this task and we got some funding a little bit of funding and this is how we did the job ok so the full programme as we said you found it's on pre-talks so just notice it there's five rooms in parallel not all the time five rooms there's one or two moments where there's only four rooms so you can look up to another in these rooms what we can say is that all the sessions are 90 minutes long and there can be some errors in the programme if you manage to see an error with your name just go to a registration desk and let us know errors can be due to many factors and errors can be as simple as that your co-authors have been forgotten somewhere in the process so you know we apologise already but just let us know and we will rectify ok that's what I want to say about the programme itself so the second issue there's the one of the second thing is streaming so we're not going to stream five rooms we're going to stream two rooms this one and the room at the other end the salle de sang so 450 means the room for 450 we're not quite 450 or 200 so they're being live streams with issues with images and with videos that you may include in your talks so a reminder for the session chairs in this room and that room there is a consent form which is as simple as possible that needs to be signed so please sign it and also member for the people who are actually using this but we're all in the OER world so we do know how it happens so make sure you do have material the rights to use it typically creative commons material or other is good and if not you just tell us and we find a way of just skipping out that part when we're actually keeping the videos afterwards ok so we said another one of the features was this virtual programme so in parallel with this Alan who we saw the picture of earlier he's running this virtual programme and so there's a number of things happening so it's more or less let's say I'm hoping the people in the room stay in the room but since we're being streamed people elsewhere may have the choice of remaining in one of these two rooms or to go and look at what's happening in other places so things like the interaction zone have been invented and you will all be asked at some point saying do you want to speak with somebody who's at the other end of the world or things like that this can be an alternative ok as far as the programme goes I hope I've said everything I had to say let's talk about the social programme so social programme starts today so it's supposed to start at 5.30 so at the end of the last session we have got a walking tour yes I know I know it is raining we've got a walking tour leaving from here and going to 2.6 miles 2.6 km away with 3 guides who are going to tell us a bit the history of Nantes and some of the landmarks to get to this place and it will take a nice hour or a bit and we get there those who don't want the tour because it's raining or because they want to go to the hotel I mean if it is raining we will find an alternative we will have to think this out the next rendez-vous is at 7 o'clock at a place called Le Salon Mauduit at the address which is there and I'm supposing the address is in the programme somewhere and you've all got it and if not we will have to write it down in different places so this is a great hall you can see here I think this is taking a picture of it so this is a great hall in which we are well what we've done is try to find local producers who are produced in the area and so you will be able to sample local food, local liquid probably not allowed to say the word wine when in streaming and also we will have jazz bound and I hope it will be fun and it is open to everybody or nearly everybody I think you just have this little one of these little stickers on your badge and that's the thing saying ok you're on the list and if you're not on list well again go to registration ok so etiquette for this well no etiquette at all dress as you like just wear this name tag not just because we recognise a sticker because it's nice to actually speak with people you don't know so it makes it easy for people to understand bon humeur for the event ok we also have a social programme event tomorrow so I was told by Melanie you've heard about Melanie Eurya and Solène oh this is misleading you're giving the impression that everybody gets a ride on the elephant so no you don't get a ride on the elephant but it is that part of not so the elephant is a feature of not a place called Kanya Sitapas with an address there to go and go and see things so that's tomorrow evening and there there will be time to go to the hotel and refresh before going there ok I think I've nearly finished so all I can say is thank you merci thank you have we forgotten anything if there are questions we do have a bit of time to answer questions before that you know anyone have questions about the programme or the socials or the weather what's that that's not a question thank you not yet ok well good Mouan we invite Lisa and Syen up for the first keynote please ok thank you very much