 This is really really really good to be back here again, so I'm going to kick it off with a little bit of of a of a framer, let's say because we live in very interesting times and I must say That's they're good ones Earlier this year we refined Our mission and vision Has anybody not seen this anybody not seen this before? Okay, well We're wearing it on t-shirts now We got our mission down to something we can actually put on a t-shirt and it was important to me that it was something that Wasn't a brand that it was something that any moodler could wear Because it's the mission of the project And this is what we're we're here for we're here to empower educators to improve our world and We're trying to give the world the most effective platform for learning now These are words Why have we chosen these words and I want to go into a little bit about that first and And see where that takes us So as uncle Ray was saying and I was loving hearing it That's mother earth right we're all on that and It's becoming clearer I think How fragile this thing is that we're on and how important it is that we look after it and the many many People and cultures have been saying that for a long time and we've been kind of a lot of us have been ignoring it because we're too busy looking at our Smartphones and TVs lately There's good news right there's it's not all bad news if you look at stats from the last 200 years Most of the basic stuff we were actually improving. So we are improving Extreme poverty is dropping basic education is increasing about half the countries in the world have a democracy now Whether or not it's a well well implemented democracy is another matter But 86 percent of the world gets vaccinations Child mortality we were only down to four percent of our children dying before their five Fifteen percent still can't read But that's a lot better than it was and things are generally improved there's a lot of good things But if you look at the UN sustainable goals They've identified 17 big Problems and things we need to work on to actually make the planet sustainable, which you know, I'm not I'm not a hippie by any spiny by any stretch. This is this is Serious stuff. This is stuff. We actually need to do to keep this thing. We're living on liveable in the in the next hundred years So Very very critical stuff. So from my point of view, I don't see any reason why any Enterprise on earth shouldn't be connected to that Like they're literally isn't you can't really think of a good reason why it shouldn't be connected to that, right? Because survival is kind of everything unless you have a death wish in which case you know by but We do need to connect what we do to the important things and Some of those are the ones I find most critical to work on are the ones that a lot of them We've created kind of recently. These are problems that have actually got worse recently because of our impact So we have huge inequality going on. We've got food and water security Getting worse in lots of places. We've got a refugee crisis of 65 million people homeless Transient and that's rising. We've got climate change We've got the problems of how we deal with all our own information or our own data that we are creating We are now interacting in new and exciting ways and and we're owning each other's data We are sharing data with each other. We don't really know how to deal with that yet. It's all so new And there are people out there who are Fighting over that stuff. We have Automation coming in about to wipe out whole Strata of jobs You know, we did it once already with agriculture and we're going to be doing it again and again But we don't really have plans for what people are going to do and how they're going to survive Once these jobs get replaced We've got health care quality. So it's okay to say health care is Improving, but it's a quality that health care And education quality as well. What is the quality of education? Not just the basics of being literate, but how do people become citizens, right? To solve all those things that's what I think we need right We need to have a whole generation of people who are globally oriented who are multi-culturally aware So things like refugees become a lot less of a problem If you're aware that there are other cultures that there are other people and that they're in that situation because of reasons We need to all be environmentalists because it's literally the house we're living in and Caring citizens people who actually can run a democracy properly so people who can actually vote and take part and have initiatives and Make changes and and all those things There's a whole heap of really encouraging stuff going off on everywhere I've got a 16 year old daughter who at the drop of the hat will go and write to the Prime Minister and The whole there's a whole generation of people who are you know kids who are doing great stuff, but I Still think we we do need to do Better overall because there's still huge problems in the world and they aren't going to be fixed by a simple letter So it comes down to education and I know a lot of you kind of agree with me You're in education because you believe it's important education is Across all subjects Needs to support The next generation to kind of fix the mess that we've we've we've put things in I love having a good rant like this. Thank you So a bit more ranting right can government solve education. This is just a very simplistic view because I'm a simple person. I like to think simply but Most governments they tend to focus on short-term election cycles. Don't they you don't you rarely hear about you know 30 year initiatives And and sometimes when you do they get cut down three years later by the next government They're not really thinking about generational improvements very often and it's just the nature of the beast of how that works and you get this feeling it doesn't really matter who I vote for and not not just in Australia and a lot of countries and there's these there's economic drivers and they they just tend to always impact education by decreasing money to public education and more administration on top of the education systems that are there And there's this focus more and more on training people for the workforce not creating That as much So that's kind of my view like I know and it's like great a lot of things good things happening in government as well There's a lot of good people doing good things, but I'm just saying that there's this tendency For it not to be as effective and there's a lot of go-round and a lot of initiatives that start and get implemented and then Don't continue and there's a lot of waste and inefficiency I can see some people nodding because you probably work at a Tafe or a university or something so You know, I hear I hear all those stories all the time. It's so do you like can is capitalism gonna solve education, right? All the apps all these amazing new comms and things well they I Went in February. I went to a conference in Silicon Valley. It was called sasta S a a s t r. It's one of the biggest conferences. You've never heard of had 10,000 Software company CEOs all in one building Every app on my phone basically the CEO is there and they're all talking to each other about How to hack their software companies for growth basically and they're all talking about cost of acquisitions of clients and lifetime values and Exponential curves and all that sort of stuff and it's all about profit because when I I talked to a lot of them I go, okay, great. You've got a an app Why? Half of them couldn't give me an answer why like it was about the money, right? and Most companies that are totally designed about maximizing excess cash. They're building cash machines to spew off cash Which goes to the people who invested in the company in the first place? Usually venture capitalists Now capitalism kind of assumes the model of it always said, you know Milton Friedman, etc They talk about capitalism as a self-balancing thing, you know, it'll work itself out People will build companies to fill a need and the demand will drive the system But there's there's no the environment isn't starting companies The the children and the the poor are not starting companies. So they kind of under-represented here They don't have any influence in that system and as a result you have a situation where I don't want to pick on the US But I will because like five percent of the population there Demonstrably has twenty five percent of the world's wealth and thirty percent of the world's resources It requires thirty percent of the world's resources just to run So that system which is notoriously Has a lot of of capitalistic companies That model can't exist everywhere just mathematically, there's just not enough earth to go around right And yet in the US there's two areas with terrible terrible poverty Like it's in some cities. It's just you know, there's slums basically and it's it's amazing And I love the US I love a lot about it, but there is this There is this this issue that it seems to be a runaway train Silicon Valley, they're they're focused because they're focused on money most of the products if you look at them They're all designed to be grabby right, so one one platform Say Netflix, you know ads autoplay so that you know, you just finished an episode and it starts the next one magically I'll just keep binge-watching Right, it just sucks you in right and these devices are just sucking us in you can feel it And then you know YouTube does the same thing they add autoplay and then Hulu ads autoplay and they all add autoplay right and they all and they're all There's some great talks out there from the people who design these systems who are explicitly Grabbing your next five seconds of attention because they're selling that to the highest bidder basically in most of these systems So they're thinking about your next five seconds and making making sure you look at whatever they want you to look at They're not thinking about your life as a person They're not thinking about your existence on the planet or you know the whole society or anything. They're just focused on on that cash machine So, you know, I'm seeing this all happening around me and it's extremely worrying right and I happen to be in a position where I'm I mean I have a little software company At a project here where we can actually make a bit of difference. So this is why it's so interesting to me There is this problem of inequality these companies these cash machines The profits are going to people who are already extremely rich and the there's a concentration of power so only a year ago The bottom 50% of the whole earth of the population of the earth The the wealth that they owned was equal to the top 143 people Last year so 143 people same wealth as the bottom 50% That was about a year ago in January that number was eight and Last June it's down to five So like there is like I wish I could do a really good midnight all impression here But like the rich are getting richer I'm the good the right city for that actually That that is really happening more and more and there is quite quite once you start looking into it quite Interesting things going on up there in the stratosphere. I mean pretty sure At this rate, we'll all be working for one person at some point Now the language that you hear around this and I heard it a lot in in San Francisco is that they say disrupt replace Control right it's all about here's a system it's stuffed we're going to disrupt it with a new system which is Usually not better But somehow it's got that grabby that grabby quality about it that makes it take over the other system And it starts generating cash for somebody so it's it's kind of a leech thing That's that's not how you fix the planet. I'm sorry. I can't see that working for me Fixing means supporting Nurturing improving what we have so you all work at like institutions which Doing a great job I Know you all complain about it and we're all complaining about it but the fact is that there's pretty good things are happening and I don't think you need to be replaced by apps. I think you need help. I think I think we all need help I think all education needs help There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people teaching other people How to how to how to be better at things? So when I look around the only thing that I've seen and this is not new for the last 15 20 years the only Movement that I see in the world that has a chance of having a long-term benefit is open projects because open projects They're not restricted to a particular company or a person or a government or Anything like that there. They're a there are kind of movements or a tool that Humanity owns in some way that they're everybody owns them Right, and there's all these movements going on out there in open standards open government open data Open research and open source of course, and so that's why Mooda was open source in the first place And I have to say I've pretty much had my head down stuck inside the Moodle bucket for the last 15 years just working on Moodle But in the past year or two I really started to reach out to these other open projects And I think Moodle needs to be real really part of that universe because that's I think What's going to improve things as we go forward? so To get towards the end of my ranting here For me empowering educators is one of the best things we can do for me Empowering educators means That you are trying to make quality education a basic human right Not a not a privilege not a not something you have to pay extra for Like the best school or university should be the one that's the one you can walk to Teachers should be respected like doctors politicians going to say celebrities because I mean how many times to hear about celebrities Geez, I mean I it took me ages to get a Wikipedia page, but I was I noticed though if you played flute on One track on the third album of some band in the 70s. You'd have a massive Wikipedia page So this there's certainly in balance in in things like that, but You know you hear you see CEOs on the news sitting in the Qantas lounge or something and you know see the headlines That's the only time I get to see TV news But you know you're seeing the CEO saying that the CEO saying that etc. He's a CEO saying something ironically, but The You don't hear from teachers. You don't see teachers being respected in public very often and And by respect, I don't just mean that kind of lip service and publicity I mean pay as well like you should be paid to be a teacher at a rate like a doctor I mean, there's simply nothing more important than teaching the next generation in my point of my view so teachers should be Supported well, they should need with tools as well ongoing professional development Good unrestricted content. You shouldn't have to be worrying about Copyright issues all the time and all those. Oh my god That's I worked at Curtin on a whole lot of copyright stuff for that university It was the most painful thing in the universe. It just killed the life out of everything That's that's not how how it should be you should have the best resources You should just be able to reach for them and use them to actually do your job and the last thing I think is really important is that That in a good education system, we should be promoting the global cross-cultural collaboration Because we can now we'll have these computers in our pockets. We can be talking directly with anybody But we don't that much This sort of stuff should be much more promoted because that's the only way we can solve these big problems So that's why the mission is that and that's why we have this vision now It's been pointed out that that's a pretty bland thing because it doesn't have any It doesn't say what we're learning or doesn't promote any particular agenda or anything Well, that's why we have these we have values attached to this so we have five values and they're We treat education and we value education and we treat it as a value education is part of every communication that we have Openness already spoken about but also openness for accessibility international culture Respect so we're always trying to promote respect in the team But also with competitors and outside We try and be show integrity Be ethical and finally we're trying to be innovative and support innovation and Open source inherently does this there's so much innovation on top of mood or and a lot of you are doing it but it's It's part of the energy of a group of people that if you Give them the power to do things that they will And a lot of good things come out of it So with those values and our vision and mission, I think mood was set up to go in a good direction now Our numbers are growing and this is the responsibility. We have we have 84,000 plus registered sites And that number is still going up And and I've been traveling a lot more lately I've chosen in the past year or two to not only go to Moodle events even though I could seriously just go to Moodle events non-stop But I go to other education events Conferences so I went to something called a bed in Brazil. It's 2,000 people And I said to them, okay, everybody stand up and everyone stood up. I said, okay, everyone who I Said put your hand out on the your shoulder on the shoulder the person next to you. I said, okay, you're all connected It feels good, doesn't it? I said everyone who doesn't use Moodle sit down. It was like 10% of people sat down This is in the middle in the jungle of Brazil 90% of them were using Moodle. This was not a Moodle conference. This was just a general education conference I said, I'm sorry to the 10% had to disconnect from the network And I've been to Russia I've been to to Tel Aviv and so on and and it's amazing actually The kind of reception that Moodle gets a lot of people had no idea where it came from or what it really was or They're so totally dependent on it that That's you know, there's the thrill that someone's talking about it because you know We don't we don't have a hundred million dollar marketing budget like some companies to go out and do this at every conference Generally, so doing this has been really good people going. Oh, yeah Moodle really exists. There's really people behind it So there is a ability that we have to this project Now it was at one of these events. It was the one in Israel Where I met some people and developed into this News so I got some big news. This is an announcement. This is something that has not been announced before So I'm going to tell you now We've been looking for ways to grow faster I get up here at these moots every year and I say hey, we're doing these things and these are our plans We're gonna work on this stuff and then for the next year We struggle along with the team. We have probably 80% of what we're doing is maintenance because let's face it 80% of all life is maintenance right We're all thinking of your spouses and your homes right now 80% of life is maintenance. So, you know with the team we have we can't push forward as fast as I'd like and as fast as you'd like I've been really looking hard for ways to grow faster and talking to a lot of people We fire finally found an investor that we really like. I must have talked with about 50 And at some point It's pretty clear that they're part of that framework. I was just describing right not a good fit for us but This is different So when announced today This is the a bit of screenshot from our press release We just got six million dollars investment from a European family Now this family it's just it's not just a mom and a dad and a couple of kids This is a very large organization I'll give you a chance to read that they are Most well known for a company called Decathlon Has anybody heard of Decathlon here a couple of people It's a sports company and you think gee that's a weird fit Sports company. Well, it's not really the company. That's that's investing. It's the family, but What I found really amazing was as I talked to them and got to know them over some months Was how close? Culturally their fit was the way they the way they do things and the way they run their companies with the way I'd like to run our company and the way I'd like to see things being done This company Decathlon as an example is 80,000 people Something like 10 billion euros revenue a year They they're thousands of Locations around the world. I think they're opening in Sydney like very soon. I think next month or something They're kind of like the IKEA of sports stuff now I'm not a retail person, but what I was so impressed with when I looked at their strategy and their their own Mission and the way they run things. They're not profit-oriented they have a they have Rules in place to keep their profits down They Across those 80,000 people also the culture is really interesting there They only have four levels of management across 80,000 people And that's because the staff are empowered to do it to innovate And to manage themselves And they have really really lots I could talk all day about these things and you can ask me later I won't go on to it. But anyway, I did spend a lot of time with these folks. I really like them and We've we've we've hooked up so they have an organization called education for the many and That's that's the entity that's in invested in Moodle They have a very small Share of the equity. It's tiny. It's not they don't have any control of Moodle by any stretch and that's they're not interested in They say they're not interested in exits. They're not interested in there's no talk about particular Targets or anything like that. They're all about Moodle. And so Unfortunately, I can't show you I haven't got a video or anything so you can meet these guys, but If you read that that's a quote that gives you a bit of an idea where they're where they're thinking is that I Give you a minute to read that the bit with my name there. I substitute Moodle for that. That's not just me It's the whole team, but I Hope you can read that at the back. Can you get me to read it out? Is it okay? That these people really believe in what we're doing. They're just here to support what we're doing and It's like having a big friend. It's really great so This is great news for the Moodle community. This is great news for the Moodle product This gives us escape velocity to get to a higher orbit The whole project is about sustainability like this Moodle project has never been in debt ever And our intention is to keep it that way as we get to this new Level a higher bigger operation. It's going to be sustainable at that level Because we're building something for a long time here. We're not building something to generate cash So it's time to make Moodle amazing. You've got a good chance here. So what are we going to do? Well, fortunately, I've been cooking up a lot of plans so a Lot of this has come into focus this year as we've been collecting ideas from the past looking at the environment we're in and the plan is getting sharper and sharper and we're now Executing a lot of these pieces So there are five big major Projects if you like that we're working on Moodle the software that you're using is the one at the top there all of them connect and work together and In a couple of years, you'll just say that's Moodle all of them will be Moodle but Let's just talk about the the five different projects and I'll break them down for you and explain What they are and how they fit together a bit? So Moodle itself. Let's talk a bit about Moodle got a bit of different bits of news here So the main focus with Moodle itself is is usability is number one so making it Look and feel slick Making the workflows as short as possible We've made some strides towards that recently there's more to do But that's that's really the number one focus is usability integrations with things We want to make Moodle seamless across devices so I Like to use the example that I'm on my phone and I'm on Replying on the on the app to a forum post and I'm typing and I'm going Screw this is too small and then I go across to a bigger device and I could just keep going on the same post Right because it should just it should just like drift you should drift between the whatever device you've got to hand and It should work like that's the kind of future. I think Where we're going The last bit is Moodle needs to become an active participant in learning and by that I mean It's not teaching as such but it is talking It's supporting teachers computer aided teaching computer aided learning. It's a voice Moodle has a voice It's talking to you. It's chatting to you. It's notifying you And you can talk to it so sometimes that may be literally because voice interfaces are really improving and Well, you know, I only use Siri for about two things And but there are Google homes the Google things and the Amazon things are coming up everywhere That voice technology is getting better and better and you can see in a couple of years It's you know, it's only going to get more of it Right and we already have an example where you can talk to Moodle cloud You can actually ask Moodle cloud how many users are on your site and Alexa will talk back to you Things like that are just going to come more and more common So so Moodle will continue to be the system It is which is a core platform with plugins Integrated to other systems and you access it via a variety of devices now I've got some VR here as well VR and augmented reality I Don't I don't propose that Moodle is going to be a big shape In 3d and we're going to all be navigating Moodle in 3d. Although One of our developers John will think it's two o'clock today. Is it John? Yeah He's demoing a little experiment. He did where he turned the the quiz into some 3d Shoot shoot him up game and you can try it out here. It's set up somewhere here You can try it out But in general, I don't think Moodle is going to be very useful if we ask everything is like that No, where it's going to be most useful is If you're teaching a subject and there is a virtual reality or an augmented reality Experience for that so a simulation or something that you want your students to do that in Moodle You could set that as an activity Assign it as an activity Students go and do it put on the glasses. They're in there doing the thing if there's any assessment that happens inside that activity Which is going to be in a third-party app usually yeah We want that assessment to come back into Moodle's gradebook So there needs to be a standard for pushing that data back into Moodle much like LTI If you're familiar with LTI that doesn't exist yet. There's no VR AR Standards there that I think we need to develop that and make it an open standard the second thing I'd like to see is that I Think teachers would like to see after you you see your results of oh, yeah, all the students did that activity I want to see actually want to watch Johnny doing that so you would click on it and put your own glasses on and get a playback and You know Johnny's doing the experiment and you can walk around him and you can actually see it you know in your own space and you could you know, maybe it's a simulation of something dangerous, you know heavy machinery or nuclear nuclear handling or something like that so That that's where I think Moodle will fit in as kind of doing what it does now Which is just managing the learning not not necessarily being in VR itself That said I'm sure people will come up with some pretty funky interfaces Moodle 3.4 is We've just mostly focused on usability. We've not added any real new features The bigger the bigger things that have come coming in is the calendar overhaul with drag and drop this is from the MUA the Moodle users Association and There will be a demo. I hope we were that there'll be a meeting this afternoon of the MUA It said what time is it Hedito? Five o'clock so anyone's welcome, right? They don't have to be a member If you are a member you should go if you're not you want to be you want to maybe you want to become one go there meet Hedito is the most nicest nicest guy from Japan that I've ever met and That sounded horrible. Sorry He's the nicest guy. I know let's say that and I'm just nice to see you here man So we thought we'd actually demo it a bit there as well so you can see what that looks like it's pretty cool It's more drag and drop of stuff around the screen Fixed up the participants in your own its pages. I think Jun is talking about that later in the conference today. What time? 2 p.m. Oh, okay. You have to choose and The analytics engine inspire is now in core and that's that's moving ahead. So that's what's happening here 3.5 now, I can't I'm not deciding the roadmap. We have processes there for that but but in general More simple experience better integrations, especially open ones. That's that's how our focus the mobile app which is just the client for the Moodle is really being developing In Moodle 3.4 it achieves 100% functionality The very last module is the workshop module Which will land shortly and now the work is to Support third-party plugins in the mobile app We also have a branded Moodle mobile app So if you want to make a Copy if you want to make your own app with your own interface. We have a service for that It's about five grand a year And we maintain it for you and students will have your institution in the app stores and Your your logo and as soon as they get there they log straight into your site If you're interested in that talk to us We also now have a Moodle desktop app So it has all the features of the mobile app and all the offline abilities and everything but it's on a desktop size It works amazingly well actually Some people are preferring it to the web the web interface so This can also be branded as well if you like but there's free version of course and If you're interested in inspire the analytics thing we are collecting data. We've been collecting data from some institutions we're using the data long-term data of Institutions to see because we can see how students have gone and what they've done And then we can see their grades at the end of the course We're using that sort of data to start helping our prediction models in the analytics It's a really interesting system that we've built here. It's kind of a inspire is a platform for analytics It's not saying there's one way to do analytics. It's a platform for researchers to build and experiment with analytics At the heart of it is a machine learning piece and we need to train it so that's why we need data Lastly the last piece for the the Moodle open source part of it is we're starting a Moodle foundation Probably early next year It'll be based in Europe probably in Brussels It's focused on research driving open source It's going to be stimulating connections between the Moodle project and research projects now I've been I said I was going to a lot of other conferences, right? I've been going to a lot of hello room on this side I've been going to a lot of conferences like I triple e conferences, that's like the Institute of engineering education and Well Institute of engineers, but there's these are engineering educators generally and their research conferences and they have you know 40 papers or something and I did a count of one that I went to 70% of the papers involved Moodle People are using Moodle for their research So they're like oh, I've got a great idea of how to teach a thousand students. I tried it. I implemented this in Moodle Hear the results write the paper You know Done and then you never see it again Okay guys like you if you're not if you're doing all this research and you're not connecting it to the platform It's just a waste that just kind of disappears, right? Yeah, you get a PhD or a masters out of it But like it's got to be fed back into the project so that we can build on it So that's what this is going to do. It's going to be stimulating those kind of research connections There are also some very large projects happening from the European Commission Probably some of some of you Evolved with the Australian research funding bodies The stuff in Europe is massive. It's just huge, right? There's millions and millions of euros going into innovation in online learning and Nobody ever gives us a call. No one goes. Hey Moodle They just go. Oh, yeah, we'll use Moodle for that and they just go and do it, right? And then three years later the funding is finished and it's done. It's like again I'm going guys just talk to us, you know so that's what this is all for and I've got some really good people who are just going to be Working on this and and keeping it connected So the second of the five is Moodle cloud Moodle cloud is very straightforward. It's Cheap effective Moodle for anyone We have different packages planned for more sectors there It does integrations that you can't do on Moodle open source There are some some integrations are SAS type services that you need to sign up with At a SAS kind of level And we have plans for bringing MOOCs on to there and that's used to be Moodle Academy That that's the name we had for it, but now it's going to be more integrated into Moodle cloud and It allows you to outsource MOOCs to a platform without letting all those Grubby people getting into your own IT systems. You can just put courses out there if you want to Moodle cloud hasn't changed very much. It's still It's going along really well. We currently have something like 23,000 Moodle sites Running on that system It's very active Quite it's amazing to watch it run actually such a lovely giant machine So we'll be developing Moodle cloud further number three learn Moodle. This is new We had a MOOC you may remember that runs twice a year called learn Moodle And if you were here yesterday, you probably heard from Tom Murdoch who leads our education team And Tom Murdoch you might not know was the founder of Moodle rooms back in the day Hasn't been there for a long time, but now he works with us and I'm so glad to have him so our education team Slaving away right now. I'm building this which is a a complete curriculum to learn to teach online Because one of the biggest problems with with tools like Moodle is that you throw a tool at somebody Doesn't mean they're going to use it well or effectively. So a lot of it is just how you use it This curriculum has got a whole bunch of modules You can imagine it like a mini arts degree and you work towards certifications if you want to it'll be delivered through Moodle partners and at Moodle moots and other things and and We are very Pleased there's a couple of universities have expressed interest in making This curriculum part of their education curriculum So if anyone here is interested in that please talk to Tom Tom, would you just wave your hand? That's Tom Murdoch. He's here from He's home. We've dragged him all the way from West Virginia to come here the I would love to see this because Moodle being open source is a much better proposition to teach at a university Than a commercial proprietary product. I mean to to young teachers who are learning to teach online So I would like to see it be this kind of open curriculum for those things What's really different about it is we're not we're not just teaching features as We did with the M triple C the old certification. We had this is very focused on the the pedagogy and the Ideas behind how you teach online They're using this model from Michael shiro and there's these four columns here There is four presentations that Tom's running to today and to tomorrow on these four things So if you're interested in finding out more about these different approaches to teaching online Talk to Tom. He's the man the Next one is Moodle services. So Moodle services is just an extension of What we have now for we have Moodle partners that obviously do a lot of different services and we have integration partners like big blue button and Some other ones that are coming soon So it's about those partnerships, but it's also about connecting users with good services Which is something we've not done very Proactively in the past and we want to get more involved and particularly there are some very large Commercial projects out there. I'm talking like entire countries that are rolling out Moodle They're often beyond any particular partner and this is about Us as a as a as a group looking after these these large Instances these large projects So we're building up our capabilities here for commercial services and the business development side of things as well Which is what helps keep Moodle running But the last one the last of the five the most exciting one for me is this one, which is brand new This is Moodle net So it's going to replace Moodle.org Moodle.org it's been fine, you know, we've had a Moodle site running The Moodle community for literally 15 years the same Moodle site has been upgraded It's time to you know, maybe give the old girl the rest So we'll we'll gently retire that Moodle site and keep it up as an archive all the forums and so on But that's not how things work now Right that site is not where people are because people are in these things You just got to walk down the street and bump into 20 people down here to see that So what we want to build here is a social media platform And I mean a real social media platform, but for educators So imagine something like a cross between LinkedIn Facebook Twitter, I don't know throw them all in there We actually have some pretty well-defined plans But I'm not going to go into too much detail here That the key things about it are that it's going to be on all your devices and You'll use the devices for what they're good at so And it's also integrated with your Moodle site So imagine you're looking at your course And it's a blank course because you've just started and you're a new teacher and on the side is Moodle net and You go in there and you need a Moodle net account. So it's one account for the Moodle net Now to avoid the kind of evil centralization of data. We're looking at a federated system in there So that's a bit more distributed But in that Moodle net Once you go in there you have a profile your profile is you you have your own reputation and Reputation is very important here Reputation is what's going to drive a lot of your interactions in the space So we have a lot of ideas about how to do that using Future versions of badges and there's a lot of research in that stuff that will be applying some really cool new stuff but Once you're in there once you're connected You can find people who are teaching the same subjects as you in the same languages and that's your groups, right? So you're now straight away connected with educators who are doing the same stuff as you around the world outside of your institution Or in your institution if you want you make your own groups, but you can have auto groups Those groups are curating content those groups are picking things that are the content from OER sources that are connected to Moodle net and You can from feeds you can drag stuff into your course just drag it straight in drop it into your course so it's a way of Sharing that discovery and also the creation process the creation of content So imagine the kind of a Kickstarter type thing where somebody a teacher who has some reputation says Look, I can't share my course with you that I've used at university because It's belongs to the university, but I can create a creative commons version of a course for this particular subject in this particular language and I'm going to spend all my weekends for the next two months doing it And I may have to get a graphic designer in or something But I'll take care of it, but it's probably going to cost me like five thousand dollars or something So I need five thousand dollars to do it and you have like a Crowdfunding for that all the people who might need it chip in towards it Now we've got some very interesting models. It's not just it's not that one-off thing We've got some interesting kind of subscription models in there that make this easier, I think The end result is that it's actually you can actually Make a bit of extra income teachers who don't have a very good income could use a bit of spare time doing what they already know Generating creative commons content that then helps a lot of people So you don't get charged anything to get that content later. It's just you get you're paying people to make the content So that's that's to give you some of the flavor of it and and as a user You're on your phone Say you're you're scrolling through all the teachers who are talking about your particular topic You know just like instead of looking at Facebook and you know funny dog videos You're you're just scrolling through and you're oh, that's a good one. That'd be really good for my course So you go share and I pop some menu with all your courses And you share it straight to your course from your phone and it's now in your moodle Because it's all connected to your moodle site. So I don't know I'm throwing word pictures here. We have some better diagrams, but You start getting the idea of what I'm talking about. It fills the gap that we have We have a lot of gaps in between moodles and in between people right now And we have nothing there to fill it yet. So this is about building that thing that's a fill it and The way we want to build it is to make it not like these Silicon Valley kind of grabby attention grabbing Design it's got to be designed Really with educators in mind. It's got to be open. It's got to be transparent. It's got to be trustworthy. It's got to be Transparent I said that already It needs to be something you can trust So that's that's something we're working on now already internally and you'll be seeing more and more of that as it comes along So that's how all those bits will fit together and That's what moodle is going to look like in a couple of years There's one more thing This is where we're all where moodle HQ is spread now we have a lot of people around the place We're growing in particular. We're opening a we have a small office in Barcelona. We're making that a big office in Barcelona So we're really getting into being in Europe a lot more Europe is where moodle is very very strong There's a lot of people a lot of funding a lot of action around moodle there and So an office in Barcelona, we picked Barcelona a we have some people there already, but be whenever I mentioned Barcelona people go So I would love it if you're in the area come visit our Barcelona office next year I'll be there quite a lot So we're going to be busy little beavers You should get in on the beaver action. Here's here's here's how you can join us being busy Get get an app just get an app. It's not that much you can convince somebody surely Don't be a wimp join the moodle use association just came up with a slogan for you Use moodle for research If you're doing any learning research use moodle But share it and there's things you can do in moodle that you can't do on other platforms You can create plug-ins and share them and collect more data from more institutions Which you know you have a wide base of data and you can do some quite wide-scale research If you just need a quick small moodle site get moodle cloud use moodle cloud If you need any consulting or hosting or any other services go to our moodle partners If you if anything I've said has excited you Please just collar us. Can I have everyone from HQ just stand up? Just we've got about 20 of us here We're mostly wearing moodle shirts. So these are all the moodle people They're very nice. They're quite huggable and I don't know just like Just getting their ears If there's any grant funding, you know about that involves moodle, please include us just you know Just remember to give us a call. You never know how we can help Or maybe come and join our team we're hiring It's so nice to be able to say that We're hiring in all areas. So you'll see a lot of ads coming up on moodle.com and you'll see a new moodle.com soon too So Yeah, we're hiring in Perth out of Perth all over the place So finally, I just want to say that's I think what we should all be aiming for and I wish you well in your own endeavors wherever you are and in helping Us make the next generation look like that So thank you very much