 Great, so welcome everybody to this OpenEd SIG webinar. The OpenEd SIG, if you're not aware of us, was established in March 2012. We are supported by the Association for Learning Technology and we have a space online, a community space online, which hopefully you've already discovered in order to join us today. The session that we've had, that link to the session is there. Let me just share that community space link. My name is Theresa McKinnon. I'm the co-chair of the OpenEd SIG and I'm facilitating this conversation way outside of my comfort zone really, but wanting to move the discussion forward. Great to see some more people joining us and some really influential and great thinkers here who are going to join us for this conversation because I think this is a very important conversation to have across all those organizations which use the word open. You can see a statement there on that slide from the OpenEd SIG that sort of identifies our mission statement. But the people who are joining us in the conversation today, very many of you are representing organizations which have the word open within their mission or their mission statement, but you may be doing quite diverse and different things. So really the point of today's session is to actually pull us together and to have a recorded, a captured discussion so that we can find out and surface some of the synergies that we share. And the OpenEd SIG role within this discussion really is just to facilitate it. We're not leading or we're just providing a space where we're hoping that we'll be able to get to know each other better and work together. And the reason I think that is so important is because the open message, although it may seem quite clear, it can actually be quite difficult to communicate to those outside of the open community. People who perhaps have never really thought much about what open means in the context maybe of education. So this space that we're providing today really is an opportunity for us to share our different contexts and think a little bit about the synergies and the things that we share and help really to sort of work towards a clearer message so that we can communicate what open means to those who are perhaps watching from the sidelines or potentially interested but not really quite sure exactly what is involved in all things open. I can see some committee members have joined us. I can see some names and participants here from OER, the very successful OER 17 conference. Josie Fraser was one of the co-chairs there. It's great to have you here, Josie. So, Chief, I see you've beaten your technological issues there and you've joined us, which is great. We have a fabulous response to the call to this discussion today and a huge range of people from open data, from open source communities, from open access, open education, lots and lots of different organizations doing slightly different things potentially but with that keyword open within their remit. So, the session plan such as it is today is I've asked each of the participating organizations that came forward to put together just a quick slide. So, as your slide pops up, I'd be really grateful if you would grab the mic. You just needed to hit the talk button underneath your image on the top left-hand side and very, very briefly just give us a minute or so around who you are and what you do or the focus of your organization. I'm going to have to be really ruthless on the minute because we're going to have to shoot through and really listen to each other here. But I would say that those organizations represented today in many cases have run more detailed webinars through the OpenEd SIG. So, before I move on to that session, let me just share with you the Alt YouTube channel that we now have. So, we have within the Association for Learning Technology, we now have an OpenEd SIG YouTube channel, a playlist in effect, where we're sharing the recordings of previous Alt webinars. So, for example, Geo for All, so Chief did a fabulous webinar for us. We also had a webinar from Wikimedia. And these are more sort of detailed one-hour captured webinars and events with interaction. And you can watch these in catch up and see in a little bit more detail what different organizations do in this space. So, we're going to have a quick introduction. Opportunities during that introduction, as many of you are taking advantage of now, which is great in the chat, to just network and connect, share links, share Twitter profiles. Tell us a bit about who you are and where you are. If you missed it and you've only just arrived, let me tell you that within this online room at the moment, we have people from across the world. So, we have several venues in the States. We have Europe, well, and truly covered two. The UK and all parts thereof covered as well with representation from Wales and Scotland. And that's looking good too. So, great to have such an international cohort here coming together. My background is in languages. So, when I was thinking about this session and talking to the open ed committee around the session, I felt most comfortable to actually start this discussion from a sort of a linguist perspective, I suppose. So, to think about facilitating the discussion on the basis of how we use language to express what open means to us and values. So, I've got a couple of little activities that we're going to do during the session that will follow after the initial introductions and sharing around our different participants that are very language based. I think this may be just, well, I hope it will be just the start of an ongoing conversation. So, I've really no idea where we're going to go from here, but let's find out. Let's find out. I took inspiration a little bit from the Association for Learning Technology as well, which is really why I wanted to share this slide. So, ALT, if you're not aware of ALT, have recently relaunched their strategy document. That's a sort of an annual review and it's been published. And that strategy also involved calling on the skills and expertise of Brian Mathers. And you can see here that they represented in a very visual, nice, easy to communicate way the things that ALT value. And I was delighted to see openness in that collection of values. And I know from being an ALT member for a little while now that participation is actually very, very important and membership is very important to ALT's ethos. So, when I sent an email around to those people who are in the room now who volunteered to participate, I asked each of them to prepare a slide and add a slide to our deck. So, I'm going to start with Martin de Geomas if I want to go right to the other side of the world. Let's have a look at the slide that Martin added here. Martin, are you happy to pick up the mic or would you prefer to talk us through this on that text chat? That's fine. Whatever works for you. There we go. Great. Can you hear me okay? Yes. All good. Thank you very much for joining us. Oh, no. Look, a pleasure. Thanks for organizing it and it's a pleasure to join. Very good timing actually because we've been doing Moodle for 15 odd years and a lot of that head down in our own community and which is very active. That's great. And it's really the last year or so, really the last few months actually that I've been really very, very keen to open doors to other open projects. And we have a lot of things sort of starting in that direction. So, it was good timing and that's why when we saw the invitation I took it up. So, we have a very clear mission at Moodle and this is stuff that we've only refined again in the last year or so. So, our mission is to empower educators to improve the world and we're very focused on that. Educators specifically. Rather than saying we're trying to teach the world ourselves or that we're trying to enable everyone to learn, I feel and we feel that by empowering the current systems and I think this is very important with open stuff that that's how we make real changes. We're not, I would hazard a guess being first it's interesting but I would hazard a guess that a lot of us are not about replacing or disrupting or destroying existing systems but rather improving them and helping them. That's really helpful. Our mission is to give the world the most effective platform for learning. So, we are very focused on building a platform on which other people can innovate and take it in a lot of different directions. And we have five values that steer that. So, if it was just the mission and vision alone somebody pointed out to me recently that I'm sure Nazi Germany had, I'm sure Nazi Germany thought they were improving the world in some way. It's to really make that mean something and the values behind those kind of statements. And the values are for us of these five. So, we treat education as a value. We value education and we see it as a component of all interactions really, all communication. This is an education situation. And to realize that that is always there, we're always learning and we're always improving and that's kind of being open to mistakes and so on. Being open to mistakes is a value for us as much as anything else. That we try and be open in every level, inclusive and open to different people around the world and different languages. Moodle itself is very multilingual. We have a hundred plus languages. And most of the interesting stuff is in non-English speaking country. Respect for all participants and stakeholders but even competitors. And that's important to me that you should be open and open to different people around the world. And I think it's important to me that you should be taking kind of a high moral ground if you like and accepting that there's good things everywhere. But that if you have that respect for people internally and externally, that you have better results overall. And that kind of leads to integrity and being ethical, trying to follow through on things that we do, trying to make sure that software has integrity, that data has integrity, and that there's a structure that you can look at because it's open and you understand that it all hangs together. And finally innovation. I think openness breeds innovation. If you're open about what you're doing and what your aims are, a lot of other people who get that will jump on board and take it further and take it in directions that you can't possibly imagine yourself. We have to work together and it's pretty clear that we can't save the world ourselves. So we've got eight major projects and I don't want to spend a lot of time on these but I did want to give a flavor of what we're doing because in here are a lot of opportunities to work with a lot of new who are here and open projects in general. So I just, if you don't mind, indulge me for a minute to just go through these, maybe two. I'm going to kill the video actually just in case that's affecting the video. The audio. So we have Moodle open source software, of course, which everybody knows and is an education platform that's used by schools and universities and workplaces. We have our clients, open source clients for accessing them for mobile and now desktop. We have certified services. We have partners around the world who do services. And one thing about open source is that an open projects is I think they need to be extremely, they need to be sustainable. They need to be built sustainable. And to make them sustainable and not reliant on one-off grant funding and things like that, you need to build in some sort of a business model. And business does need to be a dirty worth. Believe me, there is a lot of dirtiness in business and the kind of Silicon Valley approach to software, this kind of profit focused business, that is what's causing a lot of damage in the world today. But open projects need to be sustainable. They need to have business models to last. And so some of the other things we have is a Moodle Cloud. We have a SaaS platform, which is an open curriculum to learn how to teach online and that's to help people use all this stuff. We have a MOOC which is Massive Open Online Courses and that's Moodle Academy which is under development now. This one is important, the second last one is the Moodle Community and Marketplace. This is a new social network that we want to build that actually connects all of our Moodles together, allows teachers to communicate, to find people who are working in the same area, perhaps teaching the same subjects in the same language at the same level. And most importantly, there's two bits that involve OER. So the first bit is that we plan to connect open education resources from around the world into our community system so that if you're looking at a course and you're a teacher, you're able to very easily find that stuff and then drag and drop it straight into your course. So we want to make that usability part on top of the other OER that's around. And the second thing is that we want the community to be making open education resources and making courses and sharing them. And we have in here the idea of a kind of a kickstart type model where a trusted member of the community steps forward and says, I'm going to make this course, it's going to be here's the outline of it, here's my credentials to say I can do it. And if other people like it, they crowdfund that development. And so that person who makes it is doing it for free. It's a sustainable model. They can spend their weekends and earn something for it. But then the results must be created commons and is out there for everybody to use. And lastly, we're starting a Moodle Foundation which is a non-profit organization based in Europe and it's going to be very focused on getting involved in the EU funding which is very compatible with Moodle. And a lot of people already use Moodle in there but they usually include our organization. But we are going to start to get included. We want to be securing funding and promoting research around Moodle. So we're going to be a lot more active in Europe. I may be moving there myself in the next year or two and it's exciting times. And we really want to work with all of you and particularly open source projects to get our integrations working much better. Because I think we're in a bit of a war here. Not a bit of a war. We are in a war against interests that are trying to take over the internet. They're trying to take over data and privacy. They're trying to take over ownership of tools that really should be open to all. And that worries me extremely and so if you want to talk about that contact. Thank you very much. Thanks for the time. Thank you. Thanks so much Martin. I don't think we could have had a better start actually to today's discussions because Moodle and the way that the Moodle community works is a great example really of how to be open and effective. And the fact that you've sort of opened some of those cans of worms that often come up in big discussions around what is open and actually to be open particularly online. We do need money so business models do have to be part of that discussion. It's great to have those perspectives brought in and illustrated so well. If it weren't for the collaboration of a lot of people working openly we wouldn't have Moodle. I say that as a Moodle with some years now have had been experienced too. So I don't think we could have had a better start than that. Thank you so much for taking us through your plans. I'm quite excited actually to see whether Martin we couldn't do an open-ed sig in-depth Moodle session like we did with Wikipedia and Wikimedia. And I'm sure many of us as we'll continue to discuss in the chat as well concerns around that neutrality and control of the internet by big business as well. So yes, those aspects are certainly shared concerns too. I can see Carol have joined us as well. So Sarah welcome. We've had quite a lot of people joining us as we continue. I'm going to press on because we have a lot of organizations represented here. Who is going to talk to us about Scotland. Lorna I'm assuming that's going to be you. So and because there are several slides here Lorna I'm just going to make you a moderator so that you can move through them as and when you're ready but do grab the mic. Can you hear me Theresa? Yes I can indeed. I'm not actually involved in the OEPS project so I think it would probably be Pete Cannell talking about that. Right. Do we have that person in the room? Sorry I couldn't hear what you said very clearly there. Let me just turn my volume up. Hi this is Pete. Ah Pete thank you. Hi there's obviously a lot more to get through so thanks for the opportunity to just say something. OEPS is a three year project in Scotland which actually is very close to its end. It ends in just over two weeks time due by the 31st. So I am others involved with it and kind of reflective and hyperactive by writing things up at the moment. And the particular characteristics of the project I think are that it's a project that's very much predicated on developing practice in education from a widening participation perspective. And it's interested in the kind of use practices that enable both learners that we've particularly looked at kind of non-traditional adult learners and also organisations and institutions to engage with in education. And I think rather than it's been a very broad and diverse project there's lots of things that we've done. We can follow some of them on the website in the links too. But I think I was going to just concentrate on two things just now. I think one of the things we've done is give us a lot of attention to the barriers for both learners and organisations in engaging with open resources and open practice. And we've found that in a variety of ways in most range of organisations. So it's kind of work through things in practice and gain insights. And I think some of what we've found about that and the ways in which people who are coming to open education from the point of view of actually living in a digital world, having lots of experiences, both positive and negative, but actually wanting and needing to get engaged, the kinds of obstacles and barriers that they face. And we've written quite a lot about that and we've got a bit more to write about it yet. I think the other thing that we've done is some interesting models of participatory and collaborative course development. One of the things we were asked to do by the Scottish Government and the Scottish Government was funded the project at the beginning was to develop a small number of exemplar of new licence courses in which we could employ some of the practice-based ideas of the project developed. We found that there's been a really high demand for doing those things in partnership with organisations that are primarily but not entirely outside the academy and actually over the course of the project we'll have produced 14 new open badges of the licence courses in a quite wide and diverse range of topics. But I think we've done one or two things that are relatively innovative in the way that we've designed those as well. I think I'll stop there because otherwise if I start going into everything else we've done over here all day, it's better to stop and let everybody else have a chance. Thanks so much Pete that's great and I really appreciate Brevity is at the soul of it really because we could there's so much we could talk about and we've got lots and lots of people to hear from too but thank you so much. Scotland has been leading the way I think in the UK and many times we've pointed to the experience within Scotland and the things that have been going on here. Open Scotland is my next slide on the deck here. Would somebody like to pick that one up? Do you want me to take this or do you want to take it Joe? I'm not hearing Joe so if you can hear me I'll go ahead with this. Okay so Open Scotland is a voluntary cross sector initiative that aims to raise awareness about the education policy and practice to benefit all sectors across education. When I say this is a voluntary project I mean that it's unfunded but it has been supported by a number of organisations and institutions over the years. The initiative was founded in 2013 and at that stage was funded by CETUS, SQA, JSC Scotland and ALT. Several of the organisations that initially supported Open Scotland are no longer in existence and the initiative is now primarily supported by ALT Scotland and by the University of Edinburgh. One of the main things that Open Scotland does is it lobbies the Scottish Government to try to basically endorse open licences for publicly funded open educational resources. To date we haven't been successful in doing that. The Scottish Government has proved to be very resistant to the idea of actually engaging with open education. Other than the OAPS project which was funded I think three years ago that's the only block of funding that's been put into open education. This is quite a surprising perspective I think because Scotland has always had a very diverse and inclusive approach to education. For those of you who aren't from the UK the education systems of Scotland and England are distinct. But we haven't been successful in engaging the Scottish Government with the campaign to open licence publicly funded educational resources. We have developed the Scottish Open Education Declaration which basically lays out the principles we believe are beneficial and it's based on the part of the way our declaration and it's an open community draft I'll put the link up in a second and many educators from Scotland and further afield have contributed to. Interestingly although we haven't been successful in engaging the Scottish Government with the Scottish Open Education Declaration it has generated a lot of interest elsewhere and some of you may have seen a link that Javier Asanas posted in the chat window about ten minutes ago which is about a campaign from the Moroccan Government who are looking to endorse the version of the declaration. So we are going to keep pushing this with the Scottish Government we've got I think quite a lot of momentum behind this and I hope that we will be able to make some impact later if not sooner. So I'll pass over to Joe next because Joe has been engaging with several international open education policy initiatives on behalf of Open Scotland. So over to you Joe. I hope you can hear me. I think the first thing about lack of engagement with Scottish Government we actually have been engaging with the Scottish Government we just haven't been getting the answers that we kind of expected from them. The kind of policy view in Scottish Government still is that open education isn't something that's all embracing that spans universities, colleges, schools community learning the whole gamut that in fact open education is reflected in things like the MOOCs that the universities produce and it's still really a social responsible thing that universities can choose to engage with and it's not really the Scottish Government's job to interfere in any of this. The feedback problem it's just not been the kind of feedback that we anticipated and Lana wants to jump back in with one last point so I'll later jump in with one last point for a talk about international dimension. One thing that I should add is that Scott Guelves have been very active in getting behind the Open Government partnership and that is another area that we're hoping to try and engage ministers behind opening up access to public and Government data particularly financial data is a real driver in Scott Guelves at the moment and I've certainly been talking to some of the people involved in the Open Government partnership in the hope that they can sort of start to push the idea of open education as well through these channels so as Jo said it's not so much that Scott Government are completely sort of blanking the idea of open education it's just that their attention is unsurprisingly quite often in different places and I suppose just to round off on this and thanks to a lot of Lana's work actually the Open Scottish Open Education Decoration really has garnered support not just around Europe but around the around the world, lots of people actually assume it's Scottish Government policy and where I think where I hope we'll get to following the Lubeana event in September is we're going to have a lot more evidence to take back to Scottish Government really to stop them hanging about and to really to get them to adopt the Scottish Open Education Decoration the evidence is that what's going to come out from UNESCO in September is really a series of very sensible things which I'll add a YouTube clip that summarises the things that are coming out of the consultations and you can all see them and that means we can move on to the next speaker. I'll shut up at that. Thanks so much that was a great tag team effort from Scotland and great to have your representation there. I can feel your frustration but please don't give up you're a great team and you've done some fabulous stuff and just as Josie broke through in Leicestershire with policy I'm sure things will break through in Scotland too and I can say that with pride because I'm married to a Scot so you know, that counts too. The Open Recognition Alliance Serge Ravé Serge would you like to talk a little bit? To the Serge great lovely. Bonjour Depuis from the 14th of July best day in France What a significant day to have you with us too. It's a great day because it was a freedom for France and we also want freedom of education so I think it's very apt there to speak about Open Recognition. Absolutely. So if you were about Open Recognition you I've been working with open badges for a long time now there was open there was a Badger Alliance and then when the badges, open badges were headed over to the standard was headed over to IMS level there was no more open community and as we had the conference in Bologna, the epic conference in Bologna lecture, we decided it was a bit cheeky but we decided to remix the Bologna declaration of 99 and they called it the Open Recognition Declaration because what we want with open badges is there is, we now have the tools to build an open architecture for recognition and recognition is absolutely central to education. It's fine to have open resources, it's fine to have open software, it's fine to have open learning but at the end the recognition of this learning is very important and so while the first Bologna declaration was about creating an open space for higher education where we would be able to exchange credits but the idea of the Bologna Open Recognition Declaration is to open recognition to all forms of learning and also I think one point that most people miss when we speak about recognition of learning it's always imply that it is a formal recognition of learning it's true that open badges have been very good at promoting the recognition of informal learning but there is one form of recognition which is not yet visible not yet accepted which is the informal recognition and I think with the technology we have the possibility to make individuals not just begging recognition from others but to make everybody the builder, the co-constructors of recognition space and so this is the idea of empowering individuals to be the active contributors to a culture of recognition and trust and also thinking about recognition recognition is often centered on make reference to the past basically you have a qualification you have a diploma a certificate and this certificate tells you what you have done in the past and probably from that you can infer what the person will be able to do in the future the recognition comes post factor comes after learning I believe that a number of other people in the open recognition alliance believe that recognition should be at the center of learning not at the end but it should be at the center and learning starts with recognition and thinking in those terms that is to make the individuals the co-constructure of a culture of recognition I think it's a way to create ultimately an open society and this is the goal of the open recognition alliance that's enough for that here it is thank you so much sales I think this is really important to have you here today and to have this aspect and I'm so glad that you mentioned the trust word because I think that is probably the most important those of us who are working within institutions we're beset by challenges of competition and each trying to out do the other and the great thing about open education and belief in open education is actually that we need to trust each other and that we need to work collaboratively certainly from an education practitioner perspective too sales just work with EU portfolio as well you may be aware of please do connect with sales if you've not come across the work of open recognition alliance and open badges Doug Belshaw was going to join us today he was to do quite a lot of work with Mozilla on open badges but unfortunately can't because he's busy with we are co-op at the moment but I'm sure he'll catch up on the on the recording and there'll be many of you I know within the room who have used open badges in various ways to CPD and for initiatives within your institution so great to have your input thank you very much sales open education working group we have you next we have some great badge fans in the room as well Deb good to see you there now do we have someone who wishes to speak to this if so just grab the mic Hi this is us great okay thank you hi thank you for organizing this fantastic I'm Javier well the open education working group is one of the branches of the open knowledge international we have thank you we have a great bunch of people working with us we have a new board so thanks for everyone that just joined the board but we have a clear commitment we promote open educational practices but also open data, open policies and open science in our team unfortunately she's on the beach now she couldn't join us and Alisa she deals with the open science beat which is great and I mostly do open policies and open data and full backstage deals with the open educational practices and open policies he's one of the most wise people around our sector and in open policies so um yeah unfortunately she's on the beach she said oh unfortunately cannot join I'm on the beach so yeah that's what we do we're going to rate with a project which is one of these open nets and we have a new Charter because we've changed the conditions of participation which were a bit outdated so please see our Charter see if you can join us later on I'm going to post some more links in the forum because we have an open forum for everyone which is searchable so if you want to deposit your research for example you can you can do it and um yeah we have some interesting projects coming ahead we published a book on use of open data open educational resources we have a month um whatever we are supporting all the initiatives so if you need our support please feel free to contact us and yeah that's it for me anyone has a question on the new board what are you doing guys hello sorry I didn't the microphone under the chat panel I've been involved in the open education working group since its inception quite a number of years ago now I think it's really great to see the new board reinvigorating the open knowledge network open education working group I know that particularly the the the work around open data which Javiera mentioned have been really influential and we have a thoroughly international board steving the work going forward so hopefully we're going to be able to link up with some of our really interesting initiatives that are going on like open Scotland, like the open med project as well certainly really interesting times for the open knowledge, open education working group and I think it provides a really important international umbrella that we can all work and we all have our own initiatives going on but I think this act is a really interesting a really useful hub to bring us all together so I'd really encourage everyone to have a look at the work with the group Thanks Lona, I'm going to press on because we've still got a few people to get through before we start the activity together so GoGN here if we can invite Martin perhaps Martin Waller to say a few words to this Yeah it was going to be Bayer Bayer has been called in for that So it is me Can't make it So the GoGN is a global network of PhD students who are researching OER funded by the Hewlett Foundation I think we've got at least one of them here Catherine, hi Catherine and partly what what they wanted to do was to try and raise the profile of OER research going to make it a research field as it were but also often we find that people who are doing OER research are often the only person in their institution who have got a vague interest in openness or OER and often even their supervisors aren't really from the area of kind of providing them with a global network and what we do is we bring them a bunch of them so people can apply so people can join, I think we've got about 40 odd members so every year we bring about 10 or so to the OER global conference and we run a two day seminar beforehand where we get them to present about their research and give them feedback and we offer advice on methodology or concepts and stuff and that's really useful for them I think the most useful part is that they get to talk to other people and often they've gone off to form little subgroups around particular methodologies and then we have some open sessions and then a number of them will then present at the conference so we were in Cape Town this year and we also run a monthly webinar where we get speakers to come in and talk about aspects of OER and open education so sign up for that, it's the first Wednesday of every month and we offer kind of other bits of support as well so sometimes someone will say can someone have a look at an abstract unpreparation or can anyone help me on a proposal I'm putting together so it would create a global community and it's been really successful actually I'm sure Catherine would agree that certainly the Cape Town conference this year was really good and really useful for a lot of people I'm just going to stick a little video in the chat there so you can go and see and I'll leave it there that's great, thanks Martin I'm sorry to rush people but we've got a few slides through here so I think we've mentioned so this is a sort of combination slide this is me again yeah, it's you again after having told Lorna no double dipping I'm now double dipping so I'm talking about the OER hub here so the OER hub is so it's me Beck, Rob Farrow Bayer Del Arcos and that's a research team at The Open University and we run a portfolio of OER projects research projects and we're really interested in kind of the impact of OER so it started from a Hewlett funded project the OER research hub which had 13 different hypotheses about the benefits and impact of OER 15 different collaborations looking for evidence around those but since then we've kind of made it a bigger team so funded by a number of different projects so we've mentioned some of them so OPS has been mentioned so Beck worked on that GOGN which is mainly Bayer Rob works on the OER world map which is to which department it's made number HBZ in Germany where they're plotting they're putting together OER resources projects and people there's a project called business which is developing MOOCs for business and professional development and we've just started a very exciting project UK Open Textbook so Hewlett funding again and we're looking at the Open Textbook approach from the US particularly working with people like OpenStax and the Open Textbook Network and seeing whether that is transferable to the UK so if you're interested in Open Textbooks come and look it's there I've just realised I'm actually wearing the same t-shirt that I'm wearing at the photo I do change t-shirts so OER hub is a conglomeration of different projects so if you're interested in Open Education Research and OER Impact then come speak to us Lovely thanks very much Martin we've got OpenMed now I haven't managed to flip back through the room participants to see if we've got I think we do indeed we have Hello Christina from OpenMed thank you very much for having organised this conversation which is very inspiring thanks to all the participants this is OpenMed I work at OEMED the Mediterranean Universities Union it is a network of universities in Europe the South Mediterranean countries aims at supporting and fostering the academic cooperation among the Mediterranean countries so our purpose is not exactly on Open Education however we're leading this project as a way for us to support the academic cooperation across Europe and the southern Mediterranean countries so OpenMed stands for Opening Up Education in South Mediterranean countries and it's a three-year project funded by the RASMUS about the Building and Education Program of the European Union this means that the project is not for life so it's not an initiative for life we worked together for three years supporting educators in the South Mediterranean countries to implement Open Education in their context that's great, thank you so Christina I didn't mean to interrupt you there do you have something else you want to add? well I just wanted to mention one of of the collaboration that we are already having with this community we, well Javier is the panel the leader of OpenMed and advisor so she is supporting very much the project and most importantly we have now line-space petition to support authentication in Morocco which is inspired by Lorna and the OpenSpotland declaration so I want to thank also Lorna for availability and inspiration thank you thank you so much Christina and you make a great point there about the organisation that is happening naturally because a lot of these projects which are very focused on making a difference within our communities and very time consuming and run and organise with a good deal of passion we take support from each other in the open so it's great to emphasise that it's so important that we recognise each other's contribution and that we get inspiration and ideas from each other I'm going across to the US now and Carl is very close to my heart as a linguist because the work there at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas is very much around open educational resources and working in the open for language teaching and learning so having a quick scan through who is here from Carl I think it's Hi Sarah Hi thanks for having us so Carl is as you said at the University of Texas at Austin but we're funded by the Department of Education so we work with faculty at the University of Texas but then we serve the entire country and so we create materials for language learning and they're all open and then we also do professional development and so one of our main goals is to provide materials for people but then also at the same time teach them about openness so our main objective is just to provide language learning materials but we're hoping to slip in the message about openness to language teachers and encourage them to share with each other about open materials so we're really focused on open practices as well as open materials and I think yeah that's basically it so we have about 11 or 12 projects we're working on right now with different languages we have already materials in 16 languages and so we're just trying to spread openness through language learning Thank you Sarah and I want to sort of emphasize as a language practitioner just how important this is because language delivery and language teaching is highly commodified and therefore from a practitioner's perspective some of this is actually very difficult to empower teachers because often the curriculum is controlled and your delivery mechanism rather than somebody who can truly interact and create resources with and for students and Carl has done a great job in actually exemplifying how the digital can be used in order to empower teachers and make teaching sustainable I'd sort of kind of return to Martin's point at the very beginning here about wanting to improve the world and not replace teachers with robots and Carl did a really good example of how language teaching really relies on people and interaction and how important it is to use the digital to support that so thank you very much Sarah that's great we're going to come to Spark next and Nicole I think you're there for Spark Hi I'm Nicole Allen director of open education for Spark we're a global coalition that works to make open the default way for sharing information and research and education we're a membership organization of mostly academic research and research libraries primarily in the US and Canada but we also have regional affiliates in Europe, Africa and Japan many of you are probably familiar with Spark Europe so we work across openness in terms of open access open education and open data and our work consists of three kinds of problems the first is policy which is probably what we're best known for mostly in the US promoting open access to research and publicly funded educational resources but we also do some international work through the open government partnership we also do education and professional development for libraries to implement open policies and practices on campus and incubate projects like the open access button we also have a student program called open com which is about empowering the next generation of leaders where students are early in their careers to kind of drive change toward openness and we're currently in the process of our application process for this year's conference and there's more information there and I'll just note that it is an organization that works across several open areas we've had kind of an interesting experience of adding open education as an issue area and learning how open maybe means something a little bit different for education than it does in research you know if we're talking about languages it might just be that it's a different language but the same branch but the thing that we've kind of settled on is you know first that open has a clear meaning of free possibly use right and that when we talk about open it's not about open it's about open in order to open in order to improve society to accelerate research to help people so that's it Thank you Nicole, thank you very much for whizzing through that as you can see our time is getting somewhat limited so I'm going to press on but we've saved GEO for all here as our final slide and Stochis has done an in-depth webinar for the OpenEd SIG which you can find on our playlist on the Association for Learning Technology YouTube channel so this really was one of the most inspirational webinars that I've had the pleasure to pull together which was really sort of making very clear the connection between openness and making a difference to the world so Stochis, I'm hoping that your technical problems have disappeared and you'll be able to quickly talk this through there Thank you very much Jerry and thank you everyone for all your presentation, I was really happy to hear all these different perspectives on openness and I want to send our greetings on behalf of the GEO for all community and we are the Open Education Initiative of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and we believe that access to quality education is everyone's birthright and thanks to digital technologies we now have that opportunity to make that possible and open principles in science and education are key for this and so by open principles we mean the whole spectrum open source software open access to research publication open educational resources open data, open standards all coming together so I want to move to my next slide So I put this image because in fact when this image was taken it's much older than me I was not even born when this image was taken but this image I saw this first time when I was around 10 years old when I was a school kid in India at that time, I went to a science fair and I still remember this image from that this is one of the images you will never forget once you see it and for me when I look back when this image was taken we were around 3.5 billion people at that time but now we have around 7.5 billion people on this planet but still in spite of all these technological advancement it's a sad fact that majority of the world's poorest do not still have access to basic facilities and I mean clean drinking water, sanitation hygiene facilities, good quality education resources and for me openness is fundamental to this and I am giving you one example for example from agriculture and nutrition one of the things we believe is open data in agriculture and nutrition is fundamental to make the 800 million people who are still struggling from delivering hunger and malnutrition to make sure by 2030 we have achieved the UN sustainable development goal so for us openness is not abstract it is something fundamental to what we have to do now to make these changes happening and that's what at Geo for all we do every day so my next slide is on why openness is important so it is over one year since the United Nations launched the SDG 2030 and it is a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The SDG is working the spirit of partnership and pragmatism to make the right choices now to improve life in a sustainable way for our future generations. The SDGs are an inclusive agenda and they tackle the root causes of poverty and unite us together to make a positive change to both people and the planet and for me the openness is fundamental to all achieving all these 17 fundamental goals so without that we cannot make this happen and that's what at Geo for all what we do is to make sure we work together to bring together all these ideas and make this possible and service for the betterment of humanity is the key fundamental principle of Geo for all and we want to contribute and focus our efforts for the UN SDGs and when I showed you that image from the image that was Earthrise with the astronauts from Apollo 8 took in 1968 I'm thinking now we have a son who is 7 year old when he is around 30 years old and when he looks back to this same image our Earth will have changed dramatically we have an responsibility to make sure we make sure these 800 million people who don't have even food and basic facilities this has to change and that's for me that's the fundamental thing of what opens us we can only do it not by government we have to make sure we bring everyone together use our resources to make this happen and that's all from my perspective so thank you very much Teresa for this opportunity given to us Thank you Shashiit and thanks for making that case so clearly I think it's really yes and thanks James for inviting me to travel back in time this is true OE Global 2018 is next on our list I'm just going to remind people that if you come to the file link at the top left hand corner of the screen and come to save you can save the chat and there's been lots and lots of really useful exchanges going on in the chat so it's certainly worth revisiting that we have an activity that I'm going to ask everybody to do next so just to give you a chance to wake up your typing fingers let's just focus on these words here from Gandhi when I was thinking about values surely organisations start with their values and then they sort of turn that into action they operationalise their values and I had that sort of totally thrown on its head really when I read this but what it made very clear to me is how close and how important it is that actually what we do is connected to what we value and how in fact our messages the messages that we transmit through what we do sometimes betray but we're not totally aligned with our values I think Joe I'm with you, for me it's totally humbling and you kind of when you read your way through this you kind of think okay well I made that decision I made that this has become my habit is that connected to my values in some way I think it's really quite a useful activity to do to kind of think about how aligned we are with our values in terms of what we do so there's a very quick mentor meter activity that I'm going to ask you to take part in here so in order to do this let me just give you a link in the chat in fact what I'm going to do first is just to show you this through the board so let me just move to the web tour and put this into the whiteboard so you should now be seeing first of all a padlet that Deb who's in the room and a GoGN researcher doing a PhD at the moment created and set up that many of you have shared your organisations with so this padlet pulls together the many many faces of open and I'm sure there'll be even more that are still there so please don't already know many of the organisations represented here please do connect with them and follow that up and make sure that you're represented here I'm going to just swap that now for another one this is just a shot, this is a local shot at Warwick, I've been involved in an activity here where we're trying to get people to engage with open practice within my institution and we took the metaphor of wildflowers, well if you think of wildflowers as being the stuff that your organisation does and supports Deb perhaps you can pop the padlet link in there for Martin in the chat the the image for me really represents just how what we do also is to tie up with where we're going and how important it is really to have our values aligned with our actions so to finish off I'm just going to ask everybody to go to menti.com so let's just put that link into the chat and what you're going to need here is a code and that code is the number 35 0444 which I'm going to put in the chat there as well and it'll take you not only to that initial image that I just shared with you but then if you move on through that to a slide and I'm going to put the it's a word cloud slide and I'm going to ask you to give three words that come to your mind when you think about your organization and open the three values that you think if you had to bring it down to three things what are the three crucial things that your organization values and we're going to do a bit of a linguistic exploration here to see what actually comes up and to see exactly what our word cloud generates and I will then be able to share it with you if you can here we go I can see it starting to come in let me just grab this and see what's coming up in our word cloud excellent and we can see it growing and changing I'm going to just share this with you so that you can see it too if you're not seeing it already there we go right excuse me while I do a bit of fiddling in the background and let's just put this into our web so you should now see some of the keywords that we think are vital and I think this is a discussion that we need to keep going because these things take a lot of thinking about and maybe some of these are quite complex constructs in fact that need greater thought and exploration and also we're coming to it from lots of different languages as well in terms of mother tongue so it'd be interesting to know just how these things come together but good to see obviously the word open right in the middle and ethics in the trust, collaboration, transparency these are great words to have coming in here cost control that's interesting isn't it because that that's all part of your business model it has to be there we don't have endless resources unfortunately yeah Chris the word it doesn't have to include the word open but the values that are core values to your practice that you feel are particularly important to your organization we'll keep this going and we'll share it as well on social media and we're using thanks for continuing the discussions as well in the text chat our time is about up and I'm sorry it's hurried but we've had such great collaboration and input it would have been great to have Wikipedia here as well I can see Martinis here actually Martinis if there's anything you want to add Martin Polter there to the discussions please grab the mic and speak to us it would be good to have Wikimedia represented as well as a great form of open knowledge and contribution to the open community that also has multiple facets of activity and again has had a great impact through your open OpenHeadSig Webinar you might switch off okay let's see if I can sure it shouldn't be so let's see if we can yeah it's not saying it is so let's just try unblocking that if possible great okay well good to see that coming together I'm hoping that now you've met each other if you haven't met before virtually and now you've heard each other's voices as well we can work together on making sure that we are communicating some essential core values around the word open that are understood and perhaps interpreted in a meaningful and positive way by the wider community and Chris thank you so much for doing that story that's great what do we value we value from the looks of things the way that word cloud is going at the moment collaboration so let's live by those words and make sure that our actions speak of exactly that thank you so much for your participation everybody today do feel free to put things in the chat but I'm really great for your time over lunchtime I do hope you still manage to get some lunch big thanks to everybody I'm going to switch the recording off now and we will continue the conversation obviously through social media and those hashtags open edsig and values and make sure that we're all