 we're going to press record and get this effort underway and get ready to kick off OER20 online. So welcome everyone to OER20 online. It's the pandemic edition of this conference, hopefully the first and only. My name is Maaren Diepwell. I'm Alts CEO and I have the privilege of welcoming you all and be the first to say hello and then introduce our wonderful co-chair team for this year. Two weeks ago we decided this is going to all go online. So as this is an online conference, here is the technical bit. And together with my colleague Martin Hoxie, who is the and has all the spreadsheets to keep us running. Hopefully we'll talk you through what to do. Martin, you want to wave hello? I'll do a verbal wave. Hello everyone. Welcome to OER20. So Martin and I will just walk you through the platform before we hand over to our co-chairs for the conference welcome. First thing you need to do when you log into Blackboard Collaborate is find the access panel that's in the bottom right hand corner. And there you should hopefully find everything you need to take part in the conference and all the live webinar sessions. At the bottom of your screen, you should find a place where you can set a status and raise your hand to ask a question. And this is where we're going to start with some audience participation straight away and hopefully get you all giving us some reactions. So if you go to the bottom of your screen where it says my status and settings, you can select to give us some feedback. Happy, surprised, sad, confused, agree, disagree. So if you can all try and find that now and just try and press one of these buttons to give us some feedback, that would be great. Awesome. I can see you all finding that. Please play along. And you'll also be able to set a photo by clicking on your self and your own settings and give your icon at the conference a bit of personal presence. Martin, do you want to cover the chat? Yeah. So in the right-hand side, we have the chat box. So this is going to be enabled for all our sessions. So I can see a lot of you have already found that. And also you found the emoji icons as well. So you can see lots of lovely penguins and unicorns. So throughout the conference, we'll have facilitators monitoring the chat. So if you have any questions during the sessions, you can post them there and we'll do our best to pick them up. Thanks, Martin. I'm just going to ask you all now to go to the chat menu if you can and find the clap emoji because in a moment, we're going to introduce three co-chairs who've been working towards this very moment for a whole year. And I'm going to ask you all to put your hands together in a minute and introduce them because we're going to try and give them the loudest and warmest OER welcome that we can be at a virtual one. Before we do that, I know some of you are having problems with hearing notifications. So because we are having quite busy sessions, our recommendation is to turn off audio notifications. So in the settings cog, you'll find adjust notification settings. So if you expand that, you can turn off audio and pop up notifications. So hopefully that will make it a bit easier to follow along. Thanks, Martin. And help is at hand, not just here in the webinar sessions, but on the conference platform. There's a dedicated help menu. I know many of you will have found that already, but it includes tips for participants and for those of you and there's over 100 of you who are presenting at some way at OER 20. So you will be able to find guidance for presenters. We will do our best to help you upload your slides and get the very best sessions happening live, but also by recorded content and a lot of other different formats. They are even how to video guides on how to create your personal session schedule. Martin, I know help is at hand via email as well to helpdesk at alt.ac.uk and you should find that email address everywhere. Is there any other technical tips that we need to share just now? Just to say we are quite a small team, so please be patient. We have quite a few of you attending the conference this year, so we'll do our best to get to your inquiries as quickly as possible. That's right. We're here to help. I want to give a special wave to all the members of our seven strong staff team who are here today, Jane, Emma, Jane. We've got all the Janes covered, also Debbie, Fiona, Martin and myself. We're here to help you and the best out of OER 20. We've never welcomed over 900 people to OER. It's our largest ever event and a few weeks ago, our board of trustees, many of whom are in the room today, took the brave decision for us to try and deliver a cancelled event all online. I can only emphasize that this isn't business as usual for anyone here in the room, neither for the co-chairs, noted presenters, nor our staff, nor for you as participants. So what we do, all we can to make it possible for you to have the best experience trying to stick to our values and trying to put our open approach that runs through everything we do into practice. So we're really looking forward to spending the next two days with you rather and hopefully give you some hope and joy in open education. But now it's my privilege to introduce to you the people who are going to be leading us through the next three days. So please put your hands together and give the loudest, warmest and most caring welcome at OER 20 to our co-chairs, Daniel, Jonathan and Mia. Good morning everyone. Thank you so much. I'm imagining the sound. I think it's a rather nervous and anxious welcome to everybody from the three of us, absolutely. Yes, thank you and good morning. So Mia, do you want to maybe kick off and just say a few things about yourself? Sure thing. My name is Mia Zamora. I'm an Associate Professor of English at Cain University, which is in New Jersey, which is why when I turn on my camera it's quite dark where I am. So I've been an open practitioner for some time. I love to collaborate and we'll tell you a little bit more about how the three of us came to become co-chairs in a minute. But just sharing a little bit of my research. I do scholarship in electronic literature, which is literature that's born in a computational environment. And a lot of my scholarship is born of my pedagogy and hence the inclination to teach in the open. So I'll pass the mic on to Daniel, who can introduce himself. Thank you, Mia. Well, as you know, I'm Daniel. That's my name. I understand that I don't have the easiest surname to pronounce, but that's the Spanish pronunciation. I work at Coventry University at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab, especially focusing on a portfolio of initiatives and projects around open knowledge and digital fluency and network learning. So it has been great to work with Mia and Jonathan over the last few months, and of course with the art team as well. And we will say a little bit more about how we came together to be the co-chairs for this edition of the conference. But now, Jonathan, you might want to say also something more about the lab as a space that we share in common. So no pressure there then, Daniel. Yeah, I think first of all, I think I'm so impressed at Mia's dedication for getting up at a crazy hour this morning. Yes, so I'm Jonathan Shaw. I'm a professor of photography and media and also director of the Disruptive Media Learning Lab at Coventry University. I've been involved, I guess, over quite a long period of time since I think about 2008 with various things to do with open education, with the work that we did in the early days, exploring what that might mean for photography, media, how we explore different forms of publishing, engaging in sort of podcasts to really build that sense of a network community. So truly delighted, and it feels like I'm coming full circle back to OER and being able to kind of work with Daniel and Mia, who have been fabulous to sort of try and put this all together. The lab, to Daniel's point, is very much focused on, I guess, that idea of practice and how we turn, I suppose, sometimes crazy ideas into reality and work across the 40,000 sort of strong student community that we have at Coventry University, which sits both in Coventry itself, up in Scarborough, down in London, and as of September, we're due to be opening up in Poland. So, yeah, a very big welcome and yeah, thank you everybody for having us. Can we move to the next slide, Martin? Mia, as this is your photographs, maybe kick us off here. That is a recent picture that I took just a day or two ago on the homestretch, so to speak, when the three of us got together in one of our many hangouts in preparation for today. But our story is how did the three of us end up working on this conference together? It starts with an event that happened at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab. What was it, about a year and a half ago or so? Just October 2018. Yes, and I was in the UK to attend the Mozilla Festival and present there. And I was there with Mahabali and Catherine Cronin to present at Mozilla. And the lab graciously invited me to give a talk at a very special event, like a satellite event that they were having at Coventry. Do you want to speak a little bit about that, Daniel? Yes, and I can move to the next slide. So, as I said, we have a line of work around the kind of open web and open knowledge and digital fluency. And we also run and host some events from time to time in the lab. So this was one of our events looking specifically at about the potential and the value of the open web as a space for teaching and learning. And as Mia said, it was a satellite or fringe event of the MOSFest. You have there a link which will take you to our website where we kind of shared different outputs from the day. So you will be able to watch Mia's presentation along with all the presentations. That we had on that day. But basically it was a celebration of the open web for teaching and learning. We have colleagues from Wikimedia as well, which is another partner that we are working with. It was the result of our participation in the Mozilla Open Leaders Program. So over a year, we developed this idea of AUTI, which is the open web for learning and teaching expertise. Yes, that's the kind of context and how we... I think it was the first time we met face to face. Is that right, Mia? Actually, we met earlier when it was an OER 2017 in Bristol. And you had a satellite too. So we converged at the lab first at that point. Yes, so it's interesting because it was OER that brought us together in the first place. That's exactly right. So anyway, I guess that we can move now and talk a little bit about how we came up with the idea of looking at care and the notion of care in openness and education. We had many a conversation after OER 2019. And unfortunately, the three of us weren't able to attend, but we watched closely from afar and we were deeply inspired by the conversations and the presentations and the generosity that unfolded there. And of course, we have huge shoes to fill in terms of Laura and Catherine's wonderful concept for 2019. The thing that we noticed was a strong sort of spirit that emerged from last year's conference was the idea of hope. And for us, as we put our heads together, we really wanted to think about how we could follow up in response to that emergence of a distinct kind of hope for open education. And there were many angles we took at first when we were thinking about what this theme would be. But finally, there was a sort of ding ding ding ding when we felt that we found the concept that we really wanted to bring to the foreground in shaping a conversation around what open education could be. And that concept, of course, was the idea of care. So, you know, we knew that there might be sort of a little bit of acclimation to the notion of care as a significant aspect of what we might talk about this year. But we loved it from the beginning, first and foremost, because it harnessed this idea of social justice that was at the center of all the conversations that were unfolding last year. So, in terms of the issues we hope to cover this year, we really do want to address questions of privilege, questions of equity, the problem of precarity and power relations and public interest. Those things we want to grapple with, open up, really think about powerfully together this year. But we also understand that there are limits or constraints when thinking about the idea of care and proceeding in an open education environment. So, we know that the term first and foremost registers an idea of nurturing compassion and, you know, now more than ever, we're very proud of the selection of this theme for obvious reasons. When we first chose this, we had a very specific sense of what we could do with this theme, but in this moment, it must take center stage, the idea of care. So, we hope to dig deeper and lend this term a kind of rigor, and we hope that in the age of the pandemic and in the age of data surveillance and surveillance capitalism, and the age of risk on the open web, that we might be able to map out together as a community. You know, some aspects of care practices and the critical components of care practices. So, that's what we have in mind. I don't know if Jonathan and Daniel want to add to that. Yes, I mean, just to say also that the keynote speakers that we have invited will be looking at this intersection between care and education and openness and different perspectives. But all of them have been somehow covering this topic. So, we have Janet and Joe who will be talking about the OER openness and care within academic publishing. So, academic publishing as a form of care. And also, Janika, who is a colleague who is part of our Center for Post-Digital Cultures that have been working around the pirate care, for example, in the past. The colleagues from FEMOS 98 will be looking at pedagogies of care and caring in connection with the activism as well. So, outside the formal boundaries of education as well. And then we have Sabah, who has been doing really interesting work around surveillance. Surveillance is something that we knew that we wanted to cover through different activities during the conference. This really reminds me of when I was a child with two older brothers who I always had to put my hand up to be able to get a moment to speak. Two big brothers. So, yes, Mia and Daniel, I see his family, I think in that light. I think one of the things that for us I think was really important is really, and took some time I think for us to wrangle, was given the breadth of backgrounds and spaces that we sort of came from. Really, how could we both bring that thematically together, but also I guess in terms of the construct and some of the things that as Daniel mentioned, that we do both inside the Disruptive Media Learning Lab and within our sister research Center for Post-Digital Cultures is really a really consider process. And I think one of the things that really stood out for us, and I'm going back through some of our many pages of notes when we're trying to plan this through was, I think that there was this quote from Zemos in terms of that they seek to develop a mediation process, which is activating relationships between a range of kind of participants, whether they're activists, artists, academics, foundations and public institutions. And I think for us, that really resonated and gave us a way of seeing who we would like to be involved, how do we go about conceiving all of this. And we're hoping and we're super hopeful and grateful to the team at OLD with their amazing sort of expertise to bring that not only to life now within an online environment, but also the support they've given us through some of the pre-satellite events. So perhaps we might jump both into why we ended up with a quasi Campbell soup tin as our symbol for OER 20. Mia, do you want to start off maybe? Sure. So, one of the best things about being an OER chair is that you have these wonderful conversations that punctuate the months that pass. And I remember a great conversation that we had with Brian Mathers included. And of course, what he does is listen and synthesize the ideas that a group might be throwing around and then make those ideas come to life in a visualization that speaks to the complexity of the things you're grappling with. And he did precisely that when he came up with this icon for the conference. So of course, it's a soup can and we were discussing the idea that care often comes at us as a sort of soft term. We associate it with things that give us a cozy feeling like a hot, warm bowl of soup that's given to you when you're sick as a child. And so we want to have that be one form of association with the theme of the conference, of course. But then when Brian was sort of playing with that image and used the soup can as a reference point for that part of the conversation, he, we knew right away when we saw that soup can that it also harnessed the kind of underlying tensions that we see when we choose the theme of care for the conference. And what I mean by that is, if soup is nourishing and it fortifies our body and soul. It also has been mass produced it's been commodified. It has been distributed on a large scale. And so of course we can see similar tensions between that idea and the concerns we have around open education at this moment in time. You know, so I think many people associate the soup can with Andy Warhol's iconic image of multiplicity of soup cans side by side. And I think that we were excited that the image had that complexity to it in the sense that it alluded to both soup itself and what soup represents for all of us perhaps. But then also this question of the scale up of consumer culture. And so we were very thrilled when we saw that one. And we also thought it was little, you know, kitschy and catchy so And another funny coincidence is that there was supposed to be a big exhibition of Andy Warhol update modern in London happening right now. So we were also hoping that we could go there all together, which is not happening now but anyway, because happy coincidence. Yeah. And I think one of the things that we're keen to encourage if people I think a few people have had chance to look at this Martin shared the the link to the image again playing on that the visual aesthetics of repetition of remix which all feel in synergy with, I guess, open education more broadly be great to have a look at and see some of those perhaps on Brian's sort of virtual kind of a quilt. So yeah, hopefully look forward to people having some fun with that. I click on that I'm conscious slightly of time everybody. But so, Daniel if I may maybe say something to begin with here and then you can jump in. I think one of the things that we're really conscious of with with this sense of privilege that we have by working within the institutions is to get that opportunity to either host events or go to a range of events and we were keen and really conscious I guess when we were originally planning conference firm to be in London that that might not be possible for everybody. So trying to create a number of ways for people to engage and and really build upon that that the amazing stuff that already happens around where we are and an alt we we offered to host the Wikimedia in Education kind of summit. And here are just a few slides and again, you can find out a little bit more. It was a really sort of an inspiring day where we had a range of different people coming into this sort of context. Alison little John kind of sort of gave a keynote to the opening of the event you can look on follow the hashtag to see a few more slides but these are just a couple of sample because one of the things that we've been hoping to do with with Brian was really put together this this visual sort of a smorgasbord of ways and different ways of thinking about the range of events we were planning on doing a few more bits and pieces but this a couple of these really sort of I think stood out for us that was it was quite entertaining is what happens if we're putting a Wikimedia in residence within the chief exec of an institution what might change in that sort of space. I think was one of the things that arose through the conversation. So this this this idea that I guess the although the there are powers and roles and relationships at play within the institution that I think equally we need to feel that we have that space to be both beholden to what we're trying to do but also perhaps to take more of an activist approach so we stop doing these things on the cusp on the verges of our activity and we find ways and creative ways to sort of build that into everyday practice. I don't know if Daniel you want to mention a couple of other things or Yes, so that Lorna Campbell just joined and she was also a keynote on the day. And so if you visit the link that Martin just shared, you will be able to watch the two keynotes and also you will be able to see their all the illustrations created by Brian on that day which provide a very good summary of the main highlights of the day. We still have more documentation to add so keep an eye on that. And that's also something that we are quite conscious. So as Jonathan said, we have been trying to provide other opportunities other on three points for people to to be part of this and and we are generating a lot of documentation which will be released obviously. And there are open license. Just to say interest because this was one of the satellite events and it was we were planning to run a number of satellite events. So before we are yesterday, we were supposed to host two events in the lab in Coventry. One was a kind of worship with a reclaim hosting about the going back to the basics of the web as a space for teaching and learning. And then the other one was a seminar run by a Marie Scott and other colleagues trying to reimagine education and higher education as a public good in the age of surveillance. So we I'm sure we will find in the future opportunities to do that. And I know that there is already an online version of the same in our which will be happening soon. So now that take us to the directory that many of you probably have already participated in. So I don't know if you want to say something Mia or Jonathan before we start talking about this. I'll just say briefly that, you know, one of the things that's a challenge in this context of an online conferencing is, is how to make sure that the connections that we make take front and center. You know, we dip in and out of sessions as we can and that's absolutely the way it will go and should go. But one of the things we really agonized over when we knew we were moving into a online context was how to try to put some magic into the the experience of connecting with people you haven't met yet, or that you're just getting to know better etc. One aspect of our efforts in in designing around that concern is this social bingo spot, which is a way to get to know people just in the sense that you're sort of chatting with someone and meeting them in the in the hallway, etc. We're trying to, you know, have places where people can discover each other. And so the spot sort of does a little of that work for us. So I just think you probably we should explain a spot because even though many people might be familiar but probably the majority won't be familiar with this plot and this plot is a kind of a funny acronym because there is not one single definition there is not one single way of spelling out the acronym. And that's something that Alan Levine and I think Brian Lam came up with the acronym in the first place and then Alan has been the father of a number of spots, which one, one of the possible ways of spelling it out is the simplest possible learning tool. So this is basically a customized WordPress which enables anyone to easily contribute without having to create an account or anything. So just by going there, you might be able to contribute. And that's what we wanted. We wanted to have really low entry barriers. There is just a password to prevent the spam, but anyone who has registered to the conference should be able to contribute. And we just wanted to share some questions for people to get to know each other. And now that many of you have already contributed, we wanted to suggest some little activity. So let me move to the next slide, which I mean, you already know how to contribute in case not, you just have to go to the website, click on the tab share, and then you have to use the access code, take care. Now what we wanted to do is to ask you to go there and click on random person and keep clicking until you find someone you haven't met before. And then what we would like you to do is to read the bio and the answers to the interview that we proposed and then select a quote or some comment or something. And this person said that you found particularly interesting. And then go to Twitter, if you're on Twitter, and just mention these include the hash, the handle of this person, the Twitter handle. If they are on Twitter, and then use the two hashtags to share these kind of insights. And if you're not on Twitter, you're going to still participate because you can just use the the spot itself and leave a comment. Which will be moderated, but we will make sure that they are published very swiftly. And Dario, thanks so much for just looking in the chat. I'm just seeing that it means weave and connect in Polish. That's, that's amazing. Take that take that one away. So thank you. Yes, it's perfect. And thanks Gabby for sharing the post to Alan's website blog where he explains the origins. Indeed. And, and, and hopefully this chopping and changing between the three of us is, is not too, too. Discombobulating for case that's a word. I'm not sure. But yeah, no, I think if we just take a few minutes for people to have a bit of a play in the social bingo space. Daniel and me were kind of prompting and reminding me so I was up super early this morning just to try and finish mine off. Yeah, I think it's great. And I can't believe we've already got, I think it's 116 in there now. Thanks for sharing that one, Francis, not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that we can counted counts from real time edgy. There's some real gold in those entries that grabbing a quote and then foregrounding it maybe on Twitter and sharing it out so it draws attention to someone new. It's wonderful. Yeah, I think I've just got up Joe Wilson's from Glasgow, whose vibe and meme is whenever an educator posts open resources on the web, an angel gets their wins. Open Scotland is doing its thing. Excellent. So, hey, look, I think thanks for everybody for indulging a little bit there. Hopefully you can continue to sort of play around. It was our way of trying to think of how do we bring some some sense of participation within our opening slots. So, yeah, if I continue through, I think we've got a few more, a few more points. So, Martin, are we able to get this this video to play perhaps? I'm afraid not, but we'll. Okay, but can we share the link for people to sort of maybe in their own time play along to apologies, but should have checked. I think when we were thinking about some of those, those questions and what we're what we were looking forward to. We were reflecting a little bit back on Laura and Catherine's sort of final summing up post from OER 19 and one of the things that I think late last night for me and late last night for Daniel and I and I think lunchtime for me. We came across the tags Explorer dance, which, yeah, for us just sort of seem to sum up that idea of both what I think has existed within the OER community for quite a while. The sense of playful humor, the ability to reach to really draw together kind of a wide range of people. So, yeah, this this simply shows much to our amusement. Yeah, the tags Explorer dancing away merrily from OER 19. So for those of you who are might not be familiar with tags Explorer, which was designed, of course, our own Martin Hoxie. It's a visualization of the network in action and it's dynamic and you can see every node of participation. And when the Italian from Australia sort of remixed some of the video movement of the network from OER 2019 and then layered over it, some music and it's really fun. And we wanted to highlight in this moment in our in our comments this morning, what we're looking forward to and I think that that sense of a network coming together and dynamism and sharing. Etc. With something we wanted to capture. So you guys can check out the little video. And I guess at this stage, the three of us will just share a few of the highlights that we're looking forward to within the conference. So I'll take that up first. I am very much looking forward to speaking with Savasahili Singh later in my morning time and your afternoon time in the UK. Savas' work, as Daniel mentioned earlier, captures the concern we have over surveillance capitalism at this moment. But at its heart, it's really opening up the question of care. And why am I so excited about speaking with her well for the obvious reasons of her artistry and her work and thinking about that but also because my graduate students and I are thinking of these and Alan Levine who co teaches this networked course with me. The two of us have been working on this question of surveillance capitalism with our students and watching Savas films as well. She has a series of short films. So this will be a culmination of some of the kinds of conversations I've been having with my students as well. So I'm super looking forward to that. I also want to make mention of a very special element of this OER 20 conference, which is the FEM ed tech quilt that originally was going to be displayed in all of its beautiful collaborative glory in the gallery in London of our conference space. So I want to just mention that Frances Bell at the helm of this project has been an inspiration to all of us, and she's also had quite a bit of help from Suzanne Hardy. We will be hearing about the quilt and seeing the quilt in the session workshop today, and that quilt, which is called the quilt of care and justice in open education that quilt has a life well beyond OER 20. So I'm just thrilled that we'll get a glimpse of it and that it will travel and have a life of its own beyond the conference but is in some way launched within our conversation about care in the next two days. Then finally, I just want to mention that I'm really interested in this karaoke session later on. I've heard plenty of stories about Jim Groom's talents, and I know there's a lot of others who regularly play along. I think Martin Weller is in that clan. I think Laura Richie, Brian Lamb, I could go on and on, but I just can't wait for this karaoke. I don't know if I'm going to have the courage to join in and sing, but I'm definitely going to be checking it out. Daniel, do you want to? Happy to go now. So I'm looking forward to finding ways and learning about the ways of taking care and carrying pedagogies to the core of not just open education, but education at large. So this is one of the kind of things that I was hoping to achieve through the conference before we came up with this new format. So now that it's an online version of the conference, I think that these tax explorers explore relationships are even more important because the conference itself will be happening distributed in this network of people. So I think that it will be adding up an important layer of complexity and hopefully new connections will emerge more than ever before. So this is kind of the main highlights. I'm also looking forward to, of course, sharing and introducing the keynote by FEMOS 98, which will be happening on Twitter, and also because of our personal connection. And so I was part of the group for a while. We all met together when we were actually studying and they're grabbing the studies. So it's bringing me a lot of nice memories and it's always very good to have an opportunity to work with them again. If I maybe just close on from this one. I think on the one hand what I'm looking forward to is, I guess at some point some sleep. It's been a crazy few weeks, I think for everybody. But yes, and I think that that ability, I think as Daniels just sort of mentioned about how the things that we can discover and we can find over the next two days can really sort of, I guess, find their way into our everyday practices. And really that's the bit that for me is the constant challenge in the space that I enjoy sort of occupying, I think by being able to work within higher education. And I'm absolutely delighted to be co-chairing the session with Yanaka and Joe. I've had the pleasure of collaborating on a few occasions with Yanaka and their session tomorrow. We're going to very much build on that sense of how we can converse and work collectively, but also share perhaps different ways of understanding those same challenges. So rather than saying that we all need to have the same voice, that ability that we can do these things, we can work together as they're doing around the community led open publication infrastructures for monographs, which is a title and a project that, yeah, I'm really looking forward that we can share with everybody in tomorrow morning's session. Well, you probably cannot read many of the words from this visualization, but this is basically a cloud with some of the most frequent words from the abstracts accepted to the conference. It's just to give you an overview of the kind of flavor of the conference itself, because even though it's called the OER conference, it's not just about open educational resources, it's about much more. If you look at the most frequent words, you will see that this, that definitely people, community participation, learning is much more important than technology itself in the technologies enabling us and even more in these circumstances to make it happen. But the focus is on what actually people do with technology and with the resources that we have available. I will be sharing this on a blog post later on, so you will be able to explore them in more detail. So we wouldn't, we would be remiss if we didn't mention the idea of care and then not talk about the urgency and importance of taking care of yourself at this time. We all know that this is not an easy moment in our shared history. There's a lot of things that we're stressed about and we want to emphasize in this opening that you guys need to pace yourselves take what you want from the conference and take care of yourself. So, I mean, a lot of the material within the conference will also be available in archive. And we just want to make sure that everyone remembers that we remember that everybody needs to take care of themselves. And we want, we just want to emphasize that you guys want to throw anything else in. And Daniel, you've got the star picture there, I think. That was taken last week when I was joining, I think, a team meeting. Yes, you can see my daughter who was peacefully sleeping, having an app there. So I guess it's a testament of how we have to combine many different responsibilities these days. I think mostly it's working, at least for me. I hope for everyone else as well. So yes, it's been an adventurous kind of year. We, as a family, had two new kittens, one of which who kind of enjoys hiding in a box. So Ray, the brother to Harla, has decided to self-isolate in our kitchen inside a cardboard box. I think this care, I think, also goes out, I think, to everybody who is both online now. I think we've got 125 people with us. But in particular, I think, as Marin said, everybody is really sort of making this feel truly special. But please don't feel obligated. The sessions are recorded. Please dip in and out as you see fit. I know I've said immediately to my team, my life seems to be spent against the screen. So I think in our last catch-up with Marin and Martin, I was just mentioning that we need to just make sure that people have that time and space to feel that they can leave the screen and not feel sort of any sense of guilty or pressure. But yeah, a huge big thank you to everybody. So, you know, our final comments are sort of offering up a reflective series of questions. So Daniel inaugurated our social bingo slot. And in his own quotes, he shared something that the French philosopher Bruno Latour recently prompted the world with in terms of questions. And we thought those questions are pertinent to the work we hope to do with all of you over the course of the next two days. So Daniel, you want to sort of read out these questions and frame them a bit? Yes, sure. So also, I want to say that this is part of a wider, a larger set of questions that you can hopefully visit. These are the first questions on the fourth question. The first one is about the activities that now are suspended that we would like to be resumed. So things that we are now not doing, perhaps when we go back to normality, if we can ever do that anyway, we wouldn't like to see them. And the second, I guess the other side of the coin is which of the now suspended activities would you like to develop, resume or even create from scratch? These are two questions that we would like to launch to the community and apply them to our daily realities. And specifically, I think that we could come up with very interesting questions if we think about education and learning in these particular times. I just wanted to add that this is such a moment of crisis and in our welcome note, we mentioned that we think crisis is also like this kind of tipping point in which things can get worse or can get better. So hopefully in our gathering together in these next two days, we'll be thinking about the role that open education will play and taking the world forward differently than we left it behind after all. I don't know if this is ever going to end really. I'm talking about the pandemic right now, but hopefully it will resolve itself eventually. And in the midst of all of that, there'll be a lot of shift change, etc. So we hope that you'll think of these questions and, you know, they'll inspire you to think about the context of your own work as we all move forward. It's interesting to see that many people in the chat are thinking about assessment as something that we could probably rethink in this situation. Yeah, so really, I guess there are the things that we'll be, I think, trying to mull over as we get chance to either chair or dip in and out of the various sessions over the next kind of two days. I think one of the things that would be entirely remiss is really not to formally thank Maren and Martin both for their guidance and the wider team. And as Maren said, I think at the beginning, the trustees for sort of still seeing value in convening the conference and that unbelievable confidence and reassurance that Maren and Martin have given the three of us. Has been phenomenal. So yeah, a big, big thank you to them as this has not been in any small task to put together in such a short period of time. And an especially huge thank you, I think to the unbelievable positivity from our immediate sort of a conference committee that we were working with on how quickly they were turning around all of the reviews of papers, submissions. And again, I think the less called it Daniel and me were able to take with them. I think really showed that that sense of togetherness. But yeah, so a huge thank you to them and the program. Wow, what an incredibly full program. So yeah, the next few days, a couple of days are going to be fantastic. A big, big thank you. And thank you to Daniel and Mia to making this film super special from from me too. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jonathan. Thank you, Mia. So thrilled to have you and have a wonderful welcome. Before we go and start today's program, there's three important things that we still want to share with everyone here. If the conversations that you're having at OER 20 want to go on beyond the session or you're looking for a cafe to meet up with someone else, we've set up an social space that is open all hours open to everyone. And you will hopefully always find a warm welcome. I know you will find the warmest welcome in five minutes because our very own Debbie bath is going to be there offering hugs and welcome to you all. So please, if you want to meet someone or you are feeling like a bit of social interaction head there. And I also wanted to point out that throughout the program, we have related hashtags, you're all getting the hang of them already. Social hashtags and brown bag lunch hashtags. So throughout the day, follow the hashtags. But I'm going to ask my colleague Martin to introduce the last feature that we want to highlight today because I know it's close to his heart in particular. So Martin, do you want to tell us all what's coming up this evening? Because there ain't no party like a car or party. So in the absence of a social program where for those who were going to attend in London, we were going to visit a former sex shop, which has been turned into a nice cafe and bar. We're having to find alternative entertainment for you all. And I have to say this has been made possible by Jim Groom and Tim Irms at Reclaim Hosting. They're kindly hosting the inaugural OER 20 carry OER Oki night, which there's a strong tradition within the open education community to expressing ourselves through songs. So you can watch. All attendees are invited to take out the microphone at day one. And you'll find in your email this morning from us for the day one activities, you'll find a link or how you can join into the session. But if you just want to have a watch from the sidelines, if you tune into DS106.TV at 8 p.m. BST this evening, you'll hear some of the greatest hits being murdered but being shared. So I have to say when we tested this with Jim and Tim on Friday, I hadn't laughed so much in a number of weeks. So I think it's probably going to be a nice, light week and probably end of the day. Thanks Martin and Seacalls in the background have played us nicely onto the last part of the morning welcome, which is that we're now getting underway with the program. For the rest of this conference day, so to speak, or it might be your conference night or afternoon or midday, there'll be two live sessions in our two webinar rooms. We hope that you've been able to navigate the program. The order of the program is the order in which things will happen. And there's also much asynchronous content that is coming your way. Now we finished dead on time two minutes to spare. So I'm going to say thank you for joining us and I hope you enjoy the next two days and the final words and waves goodbye to Daniel, Mia and Jonathan. Mia, go for it. So I just want to say, go for it guys enjoy this. And I'm really looking forward to connecting with as many of you as I can. And I know there'll be all kinds of wonderful things that emerge from this convergence that we're, we're having together. So thank you. And really looking forward to everything. Yeah, I have to say that the, that's a reflection about the situation and the fact that even though we are in very different locations, we are probably going through very similar, a very similar process. We are, or most of us are probably at our homes, and we will be connecting from our own domestic spaces. And that's something that bring us more togetherness, I guess. So we know if we are far apart, we will be sharing something very special, which hopefully won't be repeated. It makes iterations of the conference, but that's something that we can make the most of in this occasion. And on the basis that I seem to spend my life running from pillar to post and always running late. I'll be very brief. A huge big thank you again. And yeah, enjoy the next two days and looking forward to connecting with people online. Thank you. Take care. Bye bye. Bye everyone. See you at the program. Have a wonderful time with us here at OER20. So going to the social space now. See you there. Bye Daniel. See you there.