 A now contrary to what it says on the programme, Euron is speaking to us, but Blans Chyfbryd is not here. It's Anjia Lorenz who is going to be presenting with Euron. Conference is open to all, mainstream, open education through unconferences and bar camps. Thank you. Thank you. Was there a second microphone? It's not hard to guess that this is Anya and Liam Euron. A Blanche Fabrie does all the work, and we're presenting it. Say hello to Blanche on the next team. She's already a location scouting for the next OER camps. This is what we'll talk about and we'll begin with reading out texts from slides. Since OER activities are mostly driven bottom up, there has been a need for sharing questions, experiences and materials between players who have been isolated in their own institutions. Dyna yma yng Ngheirfiol o'r OER Cyflawni Llywodraeth. Mae'n gêmio bod nhw'n bwysig iawn i'r cyfrifio ar gyfer cyfrifio'r野fau o'r cyfrifio yma, a oes i bob cyfrifio ymgrifio ar gyfer cyfrifio, byddai'n gyfrifio'r cyfrifio ar y cyfrifio y Llywodraeth. Yn ymdannod Jan Neumann yn y Rhywunesgwyr o'r OER Cyflawni Llywodraeth. and this was in 2017 and this is when we doing the OER comes first realised that this is a very German thing and we did not realise that this is something special but we learned about this in the last month and we would like to present this approach to building a community of practitioners and learning community in OER. We have 3 impressions, Meddwl yw'n edrych yn wledd, credu y byddwch y barcamf yma, y byddwn yn ddim yn gyffredinol y mae'r Basil am y chyfo i'r SNF 2012. Roeddwn i osbryd y baircamf. Maen nhw'n argynnu ei fod yn barcam? Dwi'n erbyn mae'n argynnu ar barcamf yma, rydych chi yw'r rhaid yn eu agfawr. Ond oes! Roeddwch yn cyflau gynhyrchu, ac mae angen yw 5 mins. Dwy'r ymdwyllr yn ôl. Mae'n cyfrif o ran gael llawerddoch. How does it work? This is what Anja will explain, and we can show you some numbers and figures about what we know about our participants. So, how does it look like? An unconference does somewhat look like a conference, but somewhat not. So, this is what people are doing when they are learning. It does not look like Germany, but it's a German conference when you are in Hamburg. You have the microphone and I stick to this one. Is this okay for technical reasons? Anything? Is it okay? The first OER camp took place in Bremen 2012, and there were around 80 participants coming together for three days at the University of Bremen. This is maybe half of them finding together for planning their own sessions, so this is what we will learn from now. How does it work? You're building your own schedule for the whole conference. Here we have someone from England who helped to build the OER movement. I don't know if anyone here finds him in the picture and can identify him. Yeah, it's Elsa Clark who we invited to present to the German growing OER movement what has already been done in the UK then, and it was really, really helpful. This is also what OER camps look like. This is a session with three persons discussing one topic. It can be a huge session with eight participants or even more, so there are no fixed numbers and there are no typical settings for what a session in an OER camp is. But what you find is that there are less presentation and less panel formats and more discussions and conversations happening on OER camps. And sometimes also it's about doing and making and trying out and working together and collaborating on specific questions. But we also have presentations. So this is a last slide on how they look like because they are very, very, how to say it, open when it comes to how to design a session. So we always have a plan with certain rooms and where each session will be and there always has to be a column for somewhere else because someone wants to do something somewhere else which, for example, can be in front of the building. Anya will continue with the 101 on how does a bar camp in an OER camp work. I agree to support you and for the talk because I also organize bar camps and I also have been on four OER camps I guess. So this is the difference between bar camps and normal conferences. In conferences you have participants and speakers. So there is distinct roles for both. And in conferences you have all our active contributors. In Germany we have the word Teilgeber. It's like the normal point participants called Teilnehmer take part in a conversation and Teilgeber is giving something. Yes, it's a little bit word game. And also in normal conferences you have the schedule in advance of the conference and you can look where you want to go to. But in unconferences you have an empty schedule when you come in and the schedule is made up in the first hour or half an hour. Also in a conference there are presentations and panels as you are in said and in unconferences there are more discussions, questions, workshops. And the discussion could also start with the question. So I have no idea on this topic but I want to ask people helping me to get a better understanding or to find a solution. And also conference are more formal. Not here but in some conferences they are very skews and say Mr Dr Professor and this is not the case in Germany. We know in Germany we have two kinds of saying you to a person, do and see. It's more formal and in biochems we always say do. So in biochems you make the difference. You are responsible for interesting topics and if you leave and say this was not that good it's your fault. You don't need to prepare a presentation so making all the slides is not possible. You can also stand in front and ask something, you can hold something up, you can Google something in between so it's not demanded for a schedule plan. And there can be as many sessions as there are rooms if someone is suggesting a session and sometimes even more if the weather is nice and you can go outside. There are further rules that there is a minimum of two attendances so the speaker and some people else so otherwise the people can talk with themselves. And you can also provide several sessions, not at the same time but after each other. And you should give your session now and not tomorrow. So the biochems are mostly on two days and you should not wait because maybe there's a question open at the end of the session and you can offer the next session at the next date. And the most important rule for me is if you can't contribute the session anymore or it's not the topic that you thought it is about, you can go out of a session and it's no sign of disrespect. And yes, then there's this, so many rules by way of 7 after the 10th. You do not have a fixed timetable but you have fixed time slots. So if your session is over it's sort of respect for the people who are coming afterwards to leave the room and afterwards discussions outside every session ends after 45 minutes. There should be a documentary so most time we have etherpads or Google Docs that way we can document a session so people who decided for another session can look after it. Okay, that's what it looked like the session making at the URI camp in Berlin last year. So the schedule is empty. Everyone who wants to offer a session comes into a line. And then they promote their sessions and they all rose their hand up who is interested in their road into the session plan. So the session plan is empty at the first date at the beginning and there's a link to a future documentation and it is full at the end of the session planning which is most half or an hour after the start of the session planning. And Yuren will talk about the feedback and evaluation of the OER camps. We did one OER camp a year from 2012 to 2016 and in 2017 things changed because we got funding and we had the aim of mainstreaming OER. So we could do four OER camps in 2017 and we asked the participants a lot of questions in advance and afterwards for the feedbacks and there were some numbers and figures. We have more on the slides that you can read afterwards if you'd like to. We just want to point out some things. This is the number of participants of sessions and of workshops over the years and I've seen them first aggregated in the preparation of this talk. So I just learned that we had 1,784 participants over the years and we will have the opportunity for four more OER camps in 2018. Just to give you some impressions, we have pretty equalised participation rates when it comes to gender. We ask about form of address so we have about 5% that shows that's not my way of categorising the world. And we have nearly 50% who prefer vegetarian food. So this is probably a sign that the people coming to OER camps are not representative of German population. What I really like about OER camps which really is helpful for forming a learning community is that they come from very diverse backgrounds and with a very diverse level of knowledge. So we asked them about their own knowledge and 59% said they are beginners and 27% said they have basic knowledge. And you see that 27% also said they have advanced knowledge and some of them even describe themselves as experts. But that's not normally what we see when we do a conference. Normally the beginners and the experts have different places to go to. This is also describing the diverse field when it comes to participants from OER camps. We ask them when did you consciously notice the term open educational resources for the first time. And you see that many participants have come to the debate within the last years 2015 to 2017. But there were also some early adopters that noticed the term in 2010 which was really early in Germany. They also come from different educational sectors. So this is also interesting because we don't have conferences or meetings from certain sectors but they all meet at the OER camps. This is what people answered when we asked them about their primary area of activity. So most of them said they are into teaching but there are also many people into producing, distributing materials. This was somewhat surprising but maybe people thought they should answer that they have a pedagogy background when they ask about their interests in OER. So this is by far the most given answer. Primarily interest is pedagogy and didactics. Less is about technology and infrastructure but somewhat it is. What may be surprising is that the jurisdiction law questions are really in the background. In Germany it would be surprising. This is a sign that we are not so inclusive. We asked participants what would you suggest to be the standard OER license. You see that nearly all of them exclude licenses which exclude non-commercial usage. This probably is because the OER community in Germany is not very inclusive when it comes to not inclusive licensing. So there probably are many advocates for NC licensing but they are very much in the background and not as loud at the conferences and meetings of the OER community. So one last slide because we have in Germany at least, hello to the stream, a discussion if there are always the same folks running around at OER camps. I know this feeling because I know I've seen him or her four times in the last year on OER camps but numbers don't show this. So we asked them have you attended an OER camp in the last years and 300 out of the participants in this question said no not before 2017. So you recognise familiar faces but probably this is a bias because you recognise them and you don't look at the faces you're not familiar with. This should have been the last slide. This is good for reading afterwards. Okay, thank you. Thanks, that was a really interesting conversation. I've never been to a bar camp and it's good to see that even somebody as old as me could fit in so that was good. Have we any questions please? Yes? Thank you. There's a lot to be said for structure, top-down structure. So if you let the people there do it in a bottom-up way, don't you run the risk that the more should we say proactive, vociferous people are going to actually put a structure that is not generally interesting to the people. How do you control that? I think the answer is not at all. So there are people, I have the feeling also, not only in the OER camps, also in other bar camps that are presenting every time with their topic and we think it's valid. Mostly we have enough space to recognise everyone. Sometimes there are slots open where you can introduce other topics and maybe we have a little trick. There are bar camp rules and the bar camp rules says if you have never been to a bar camp before you have to do a session. This is a little bit of pressure for new people to be engaged to give a session. Of course no one is checking it but I think so many people are thinking oh maybe I have to give a session. I don't know. I think one second answer could be that there are not only bar camps on OER so we also have conferences on OER. In 2017 we introduced to the bar camps pre-planned workshops that are especially addressed to newbies at the scene. We learnt that it's not only important that there are newbies sessions but they don't see anything in advance. It's only the format they don't know too much about open education resources. They don't trust this conference format. We learnt that they trust the format if there are even only one or two hours of workshops planned and announced in advance. My question would be has anyone been to a bar camp? Which one? It was actually more of an unconference. It was an open knowledge in Berlin. It's obviously a German thing. I enjoyed some of it but I also found it really frustrating. I came away thinking God I want a power point. Just someone to tell me something. At one session we were all sitting around in a circle and people started let's start rapping. I'm British. I'm not going to start rapping at any stage. Perhaps that's good. Perhaps it kind of pushes you out of your comfort zone. From my own experience it's also easier to follow a normal conference where you have slides and you can sit down in a cinema as to take part in a bar camp. At the end of a bar camp day I'm always tired because I have to rethink all the very mixed stuff for myself and implications for my own work. Maybe this is one interesting thing from the feedback we got. It's bar camp sessions are lucky bags. Topic descriptions need to be more precise. This is always one thing that people argue that they did not get what they were expecting. But my impression is that it's not always the cases in conferences too. Is there any issue because sometimes in order for people to attend conferences they need to get the funding to attend a conference from a university. They need to say they're presenting a paper. Do you come across any issues that people can't go to a bar camp so not presenting a formal publication and paper? For the OER conferences camps in the last year we had the luck that there is a funding program not only for the OER camps but also for our projects. And for this is what's no problem to say hey I go to the OER bar camp and from my own institution I am always safe if I say hey I offer a session. But your institution is very progressive. Yes maybe. I think people have this problem. And for a second idea in Germany we have most federal countries the option to have an educational holiday. Bildungsurlaub where you can type five days in addition to your normal holiday if you are doing some further education stuff. So I am hoping that the 2018 bar camps are listed in this options for educational holidays. Hello to branch was hopefully organizing this at the moment. And so I can go to three bar camps OER camps except of one. And I think mostly it's also in further education option for teachers so they have it in their list. Any other questions? Right well I had a sort of question and a sort of comment. One was I really liked the way you presented it because and what you've said in answer to the questions because it really shows the tensions between structure and agency. And you know nobody's going to get that right for everybody anyway but if you're sufficiently reflective then you're going to continue to flex and make it as sort of available to as many people as possible. The second was a question was I was trying to compare it with things that happen in my locality and they tend to be outside of university. So there's something called madlab in Manchester which is a digital lab that has lots of activities loosely associated with universities but it's run independently. And I wondered if there was a certain local feel to it that all people had to do was get on the train to attend it so the costs were not huge for those people. I don't know if you have people coming from a far distance. I think this is changing now when we have four OER camps in a year in 2017-2018 because we could place them in the north south west east of Germany. But we're always in all of bar camps I know of trying to make it more inclusive by not having any participant fee. So it's always only sponsored and the engagement of people who care this. And we had for some bar camps not only the OER camps a budget for if you cannot afford taking part in it. So at the edw camp we had this and we have the edw camps which is like the mother of all educational bar camps in Germany. It has now taken place 22 times and we are trying to combine this to be very family friendly. So in one place where we have this every second time we have also accommodation there. And now we made it to have I think 25% of the participants are younger than 18 years old. And they provide their own sessions which is really fascinating. Thanks very much for an excellent talk. If we could share our appreciation we might still get ahead in the lunch queue.