 Thank you for coming in in our final session, like a graveyard slot, that's its unofficial name I think but I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to make sure you're all awake first so let's have a little bit of audience participation. I'm going to show you a logo and I want you to put your hands up if you recognise this logo or maybe even if you've been involved with it, if you've had something to do with it. Felly mae hwnnw, ond rwy'n gallwch i yn dda, a cymaint allu'n gysylltu, mae hefyd yn cael ei ddweud wrth fan y logo. Mae Leslie, y gynhau. Felly mae'n gafet, mae hyn yn yw cyment gwrs yma, wrth gwrs, o bobl y gallwn o'r gweld, a mae'n gwrs sydd wedi'u gweld, maen nhw'n ymdweud rhaid yng Nghymysg Llywodraeth Felly mae'n ddweud y gallwn mwyn, ddwy'r dduleg ba'r gwahanol popeth, felly rydyn ni'n cyfrifio i y troen. I ddim y cîn, cyflwch i chi ystafell o bobl, cwrs hynny wedi am fywr o le'r ysgrifennu. Ond nid oedd yn ddyn ni'n ymweld mewn o le'r ysgrifennu, y gŷn yn fwy o mynd i yn rai gwedddo iawn o'r fwy o ymweld ymweld, ac roedden o ymweld mewn ar y cyfnod yma arno, mae yna eich bod yn cael y tro ymweld. Mae'n yma eich bod ymweld mewn o le'r ysgrifennu ac yn ddweud i ddweud y ddweud o'r cyflawni, a mae'n gweithio'r newid ymgyrchaf o gwrsau neu yn ddweud o'r ddeudio'r ddeudio, sy'n ddegwyddiadau, yn Ymerica. Ond mae'n gweithio'r ddweud i'r ddweud o'r plog, mae'n ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Mae'r ddweud yn ddweud yma. Dwi'n cael ei ddweud i'r ddweud, mae nhw wedi cyd-nw'ch gyda GDR, heto gyda'r ffair, i bobl wedi cael ei wneud rhywbeth. Felly, mae'n fwy diweddol hefyd yn ymwneud, mae'n dweud ymwneud, mae'n gallu gwneud flynyddol rhan ac mae'n doanh o'r treiniad ar y ddechrau, ac mae'n goll i gael eu dweud yn meddwl whithoriad, ac mae'n goll angrif Lleithwyr, mae'n dweud a'r dweud yn fwy o'r awn, byddwn i'r dweud ar ddechrau ac mae'r ddweud yn ei ddweud, mae'n gwybod i'r ddechau'n gwybod. Mae'r ddraedd y ddim yn gofyn ar gyfer y gweithiwyr yn ddod blwyddyniaeth yn teimlo. Felly mae'n gwybod i'r ddechrau cyflwyno mae'n fynd yn gwneud, mae'n ddod yn gweithio, mae'n gweithio'n ddod o'r ddweud o'r ddweud yn cyflwyno mwy o ddweud. Mae'n ddweud yn gwneud y ddweud. Mae'n ddweud o'r ddweud ym Mwg, a ddweud o'r ddweud. My daughter is a history teacher, a she's got a moodle for school site. She's started the MOOC a couple of times and she hasn't finished it, which is the shame. But maybe she will in June. At the grand-old age of nearly 29 she's started learning how to drive. She got driving lessons for Christmas, that's her. And made a pose for that. She took me two weeks to make a pose for a picture. The education team has actually made the analogy that you could look at the learn Moodle MOOC as a bit like passing your driving test, you pass your driving test, you get your keys, you're on the road, you know the basics, like using Moodle with teaching online. But you very quickly get to realise that there's an awful lot of roads that you need to navigate and you need to have certain skills to be able to find your way to your destination. Another question, does anyone recognise this? Anyone know where this is or what this is? Shout it out. Yeah, it's nicknamed Spaghetti Junction, it's actually Gravely Hill Interchange and actually I watched bits of this road being built from my bedroom window as I was growing up, I'm that old and my house is just slightly off the top, what's that, left there. Yeah, so you might find in fact that there are different sort of alternative paths that you would need to take or alternative means of transport to get to the same destination or you might even need to think outside the box a little bit to your approach to getting to your destination. You need to be aware that some terrains are quite challenging, in fact for some terrains you need very, very specific skills and you need to be a different driver in the city as you do in the countryside and you need to be aware that some things sometimes just cannot be expected and you just have to, and you're driving as in your teaching, you just have to meet those challenges. It matters where you teach, it matters where you drive, this is actually a road, this is a road in South America and this is a road in Canada although to be fair it could have been a road in anywhere in the UK in the last few weeks and you need training, so you need training particularly in driving in the snow, maybe this person didn't quite get the right training in driving slowly through the snow. This person obviously got a lot of training in driving very fast and you also need training to be aware of unexpected hazards as you're going along. Now there are some very good driving manuals okay, don't take a picture of that, she doesn't know I photoshopped that picture, there's some very good driving manuals along but you need more than just the manual, you need more to help you understand the different environments and approaches and experiences as you develop your driving skills just as you develop your online teaching skills. Of course Moodle has a very good manual too, the excellent Moodle user documentation, there it is, but as I said you need more, you need something like the Institute of Advanced Motorists for Moodle. And so this is the Moodle Educator Certification which the Moodle Education team have been thinking about developing and working on. Why? Well I'm going to suggest three reasons why or three thoughts that the team had as to why this is useful. And the first one is practicality, obviously the way you teach has an impact on which tools that you should master. In Moodle you need the right tools for the right job. Now in the Learn Moodle MOOC we cover this at a very basic level, we say right. So if you're the kind of teacher who's a presenter, if you just want to give your students materials to read to watch, if you deliver content you want to look at the resources in the activity chooser. Whereas if you want your students to get engaged with each other, be more interactive, look at the activities. Now that's a really low level, but what if you don't know that? What if you're not competent in that? What if you've not had that training? I know a history teacher in South London who has a Moodle for School site who's just started driving actually, who will remain nameless. Who is an excellent classroom teacher, she gets the students working together collaboratively, they do higher level thinking skills tasks, they're challenged. If you go into this nameless teacher's Moodle for School site it's actually just full of folders of power points. Now that in itself is okay because it's exam classes, they need materials to be able to read, download and revise, sure. But does she could surely align the way she teaches in class with the way she adds Moodle content, but she doesn't know how, she doesn't have those competencies. Of course I blame the parents, but just beside that. So research has shed that actually I'm leading into this now. So according to EduCourse, and this is a slide that Martin mentioned yesterday, 74% of faculty when surveyed said, yeah, learning platform is really important. In fact 60% said it's critical, but 50% said yeah, but it will be better if we had better training, if we knew how to use it better. And 51% were unhappy with the current training. So they don't know how to make it better, they don't have those competencies. And what about if you actually just thought a bit beyond your own individual classroom, be it online blended or whatever. And if you thought beyond your own organisation, what about aligning it to competencies outside internationally? So, got some for you here. The European framework for the digital competence of educators, which is a bit of a mouthful, but just like road smart, it has its own short snappy cool name, which is DigiComp edu. And there's the core elements of the UNESCO pillars of learning. And I'm not going to tell you what they are because you can Google them afterwards at the end. And of course, if we could have these in our training, you know, then it would head us towards again, as Martin was saying, UNESCO's sustainable development goal number four, quality education. Well, that's what the plan is. So the European framework for the digital competence for educators has only actually came out last November. And it is what it says it is. It is a framework for educators of digital competencies that they should have. And in fact, part of the team is presenting on this in terms of mobile learning in Paris this week. And so this actually forms the foundation for the content of the modules in the Moodle Educator Certification. So the courses are these competencies. So we are basically going to teach digital competencies to educators using Moodle activities. These are the areas of the DigiComp edu areas of learning, areas of competence. You can look it up directly, the direct link there. So for example, there's teaching and learning. I'm doing a workshop tomorrow on collaborative learning that comes under that area. It's not just teachers competencies for pedagogical reasons how they teach. It's also professional competencies how they react and how they work with each other. So we've got professional engagement there. So one of those might be professional collaboration working with your colleagues digitally. So in here are 22 competencies and they're the titles and the content of the modules. So I'll just give you an example of the format because they all have the same format. They're consistent and it works like this. So everything has to have a beginning, a middle and an end. And a good beginning is with an introduction. So you have announcements, you have a module guide. You're given your learning goals, what's success. And then there's a forum where you can discuss your prior understanding of that particular module or competence. For example, let's take professional collaboration. Now if you haven't ever done that digitally before, if you know nothing, that's fine. Because you'll be in a facilitated module with a small group of other people where the facilitator will guide you and you'll learn from the others. So these are facilitated modules and your facilitator will be a Moodle partner. So these are accessed or will be accessed from Moodle partners. And they're currently in development stage. Moodle partners will be trained and so on. So it's not free, but it will lead on from the MOOC and it will also run alongside of the partner training that you can access. So then we move into Act 1. So the team in America, not me, the team in America decided to call these acts. Which is a part, it's like a part, part one, Act 1. And this is where, and it's like similar to in the MOOC, you experience some activities from the student point of view. So we suggest to you three Moodle activities tools that you could use to meet that competency. So for instance, if you were learning about professional collaboration you could use database activity. That's pretty good for sharing stuff amongst colleagues. So is a glossary at a slightly lower level. Of course forum, forum is very customisable. So we suggest these tools and you access them as a student. And of course you can also discuss other tools so you know if you don't agree then open up the conversation. In Act 2 you will then go off into your sandbox course. This again is similar to the MOOC and recreate with your own flavour those activities. So hold on a minute, what if you've never actually made a database activity before and now you've got to make your own according to your own needs. Well you are given step by step instructions. You're given a little video tutorial. That's actually the only bit and a few courses. The greatest credit goes to the team in North America. And if that's still not enough for each of these activities you get a skills test, a Moodle quiz. Which you can take several times to make sure your knowledge is enough to do this. And if it isn't or if you still don't feel confident in setting up a database or it might be a workshop or a lesson you're sent off to an individual standalone kind of self-paced course where you will learn everything you can about that tool. So we don't teach tools but as part of something grander. When you've understood how to make your database activity or whatever you come back into the facilitated course and then you create your activities and submit them for assessment. And then in Act 3 also known as Part 3 you will then share your best work with the other participants in the course and think about how you could get your students engaged how they could demonstrate innovation how they could be responsive and so on. And if you feel particularly that you've made a good activity you could even share it with the other participants and with the world on MoodleNet for instance. And then this is kind of like the beginning middle end. In the reflection section it's twofold. So it's not only about you reflecting on your own learning during the module no it's also about you giving us your reflections because we need your feedback about the facilitation about the module about those three activities in Act 1 whether they're right activities so that we can make the modules better each time. So they will be continuously updated. Again this is like the MOOC you know from 2013 when we first did it it's changed quite considerably and that's not only because Moodle versions have changed so it will be constantly updated based on feedback. So to summarise Moodle Educator Certification which is currently being developed is facilitated modules the 22 competencies but also as I explained some self-paced modules that you just go and do on your own for the tools you'll access it via Moodle partners We're using Moodle Cloud which is pretty cool and the plan is that it will be continuously updated new Moodle versions, new improved versions of the modules. Initially it will be in English but depending on which partners come on board we hope to have it translated so it will be in other languages and you'll be able to get some of them from the second half of 2018 and of course for reputation purposes thinking long term we want to be intimately connected to MoodleNet. So why did I say this is a little bit different? Well one of the team in America, Bob has done some research into the trainings offered by other learning management systems or learning platforms as we call them like Canvas, D2L and so on and they don't seem to look at their users as educators, as teachers so yeah you can have training in the tools how to make an assignment, how to make a quiz which we also do you can have admin training, you can have face to face or online training facilitated but we haven't seen any that align with competencies that are competency based that help you meet competencies, international competencies and using the learning platform, using Moodle and this of course is helping towards our vision which is to give the world the most effective platform for learning so it's not just about passing your test and getting the keys, it's much more than that and if you're interested or if you want to follow the development and the progress of the project we've got a URL which is Moodle.com slash Learn Moodle so please make a note of that because Tom has actually written an FAQ of all the questions that you would ask me if it weren't the end of the day and you weren't keen to move on they're all there Moodle.com slash Learn Moodle it's a link to our documentation and also please come to Moodle.org to the Teaching with Moodle forum this is where we have lots of conversations about using Moodle in teaching and if you want to ask me one of the places I hang out as well so find out more there please come and discuss Teaching with Moodle in the Teaching with Moodle forum and get your colleagues to join the MOOC that starts on June 18 thank you I have a question I'm still offering the jacket by the way is that anyone's jacket black jacket no well we'll leave it at reception or maybe we can take it home on the two Mary have you got time for a couple of questions my first question would be if I was thinking about going to a workshop tomorrow maybe 1.30 which workshop would I want to go to well I personally am planning on going to the collaborative learning workshop because there you're going to have a taster of one of the modules in the Moodle Educator Certification Programme obviously it's a lot shorter and condensed because we only have an hour and a half and we're doing it live as opposed to facilitated online but you will get an idea of the flavour of it, of the introduction and the acts and the reflections so that's going to be my choice anyway and you're leading that one excellent, thanks could you grab another microphone just before Mary escapes because I'm sure there's some questions from the audience they don't have a question for Mary based on what she's just been presenting about this is a change to answer question instead of running around with the microphone this question here, here we go I know you're not even rolled it out yet but I think from a perspective of being a university and having a whole load of staff that we'd love to upskill to the same level will there be some thought about potentially how potentially none Moodle partners could be certified trainers in this to allow us to do it out that way we can't be a Moodle partner because we're a university as far as I'm aware so how do you train the trainers or will there be some sort of thought about training the trainers? Yes, I think the answer to that is there is some thinking going into having someone in your organisation as a qualified trainer facilitator rather say facilitator but they'd still have to go via a Moodle partner first but I actually have an idea that that's one of the FAQ in that link that I gave you so have a look on there okay Thanks Mary, any other questions Can you just go up there I'll put my glasses on so I can see you Hello Mary can I ask is this going to be a one-off qualification or is this something that you're going to have say for a two to three year period and you're going to have to renew Well that's interesting my belief is that it's going to be a qualification based on certain oh actually no I don't know because it will be updated for each Moodle version or maybe once a year for every other version but certainly the qualification in terms of the digital competencies is not changed I don't know, I'm sorry I don't know the answer to that Can I just say that the European Digicom framework gets updated and in fact the UNESCO Worldwide Digital Literacy Skills framework is going to build on the Digicom framework so I should imagine that will reflect all of that I mean it makes sense that way Sorry I just wanted to say it doesn't actually go to a page it looks like it's got a dash between learn Which do you mean that one? Yeah it looks like it's got a dash between learn and Moodle without the dash it's not resolving No there's no dash Sorry I don't know what you mean It's going to a page you're not found Isn't it? Okay You mean there's a hyphen between the N and the M Yes I'll have a look afterwards I'll have a look now actually There's that, any other questions? Oh there's one here, let me just There's two here Let me go to the closest one Mary will be successful people who've succeeded through the course have any accreditation that they can claim for it are you having it looked at by any university partner I think they're working toward You'll get certificate, you'll get badges I think they're working towards different accreditations and I am sure that that is in the FAQ Actually, thanks This was working So Oh thank you So who else was it? This is really interesting for us We've been asked to look into reviewing the VLE that we're using and probably something like the learn Moodle project would be one way of us say no please let's not move We've got this new training we can offer but just wondering about pricing and things I know that's probably a bit far away but if it's going through the partners and obviously we'll have to pay for it Do you know if it would be something like an institutional subscription or per user or you don't know yet I don't know yet I'm sorry The Moodle.com slash learn Moodle link is a canonical URL which I only learned from Doug a few months ago actually that term so I'm saying it to sound cool is from the documentation so the page is actually in the Moodle documentation so I'm just looking that up now actually Yeah Okay any last questions for Mary before you listen to my dulcetones No, okay Well while we're switching over can we just give Mary a round of applause Thank you While we're switching over sorry I can't really walk backwards