 Hi, I'm Chrissie, a passionate open practitioner and academic developer in the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University. Curiosity fuels my imagination to create stimulating professional development opportunities for academic staff, with students and the public. I do that through open educational practices with others, other universities, other organisations. Open practices that take us out of our bubble. Open practices that cross boundaries and make our experiences more diverse and adventurous. Where would you rather be? In here, where everything is the same? Or in here, where it's right and colourful? If you would like to find out what some of my colleagues have said about my work, keep watching. Hi, my name is Becky and I met Chrissie back in 2012 when she was my tutor on a PG Cap course. She's been a huge influence on my professional life and my personal life to no extent. She's so enthusiastic and helpful, she's a great mentor, always asks really kind of probing and thoughtful questions and yeah, I would say she's totally responsible at least for getting me started on my journey to becoming an academic developer and an open practitioner working on enthusiasm. I knew that A, she was a force to be reckoned with, B, she has a great passion and creativity in how she approaches educational development and use of technology to support that and that's kind of evidence in kind of the bewilderment array of projects that she's been involved in and I think that's kind of like what I love about working with Chrissie is that there's always something new and next that we can do and I guess fundamentally we don't always agree with each other and I think that's kind of really important and I learn a lot from the debates and conversations that we have. Hi, I was a participant in FDOL 131 and 132 and I remember Chrissie as a very enthusiastic and engaging open practitioner and really a role model and helped me really become self open practitioner. We developed here at Karlsruhe University several open online courses on advanced level and very things to her engagement. Namely, Chrissie helped me to explore the meaning and the dimension of creativity, something that I couldn't reflect not only on my previous experiences but also on my current attitude towards creativity. Moreover, the fact that Chrissie promoted the interaction among the participants as well as that she was accustomed to treating us with new challenges was also perceived as the added value for me. First thing you notice when you meet Chrissie is a tremendous amount of energy and enthusiasm she has to bring about change for the better. Some of the work that I have done with Chrissie in the HE context has included the cross-introductional LTHG chat. However, I do think that the word that Chrissie is doing, the promotion and evangelisation is moving things in the right direction and I think that many of us working in HE now recognise that there is a different more collaborative way that we can work together across institutions. And I only have one thing to say, thank you. Thanks Chrissie for being so generous and for always being at the heart of the open education community. I do respect a lot what you do and the ways you do it. You're always generous and you always share your research, your ideas and you're always open to listen to us and to talk to us when we're struggling with things related to our work.