 The last session so if you're not in your seat, just make your way there. That's fine. I'm absolutely exhausted. I don't know about you guys. Congratulations to everybody who has made it here. Especially everybody who made it here via way of karaoke last night. I'm very, very proud of you. Very proud of you indeed. It's my absolute pleasure to introduce our closing plenary. We've decided, given that you guys are in an adventurous crowd, we decided to do something slightly different to the way that we normally do it. So we haven't got a closing keynote for you. Haven't got somebody standing up and I'm talking about it. What we've done is we've asked these wonderful ladies who I'm going to shortly introduce to you to do a horrendous task and like fools, they agreed to do it. So their lack of thought and foresight is our benefit. Their role at the conference has been slightly different to all of you people who have just been relaxing and having a wonderful time. They've been actually tasked with thinking about shifting through filtering all of the kinds of things that have gone on during the conference in order to bring together a voice and a view and a take on what we've achieved, where we are and to have some time reflecting on the conference. So we're hoping this is going to work well. In terms of Alicanised goals, I think we're both feeling very, very positive about where we are and where we've got to. We wanted the conference to be very international and I think from the diversity of delegates, the amazing range of stories, case studies, research papers that have come from around the globe. I think we've certainly achieved that. We also really wanted the conference to focus on inclusion and diversity and look seriously at that in terms of our work as a community and in terms of us as a community. I'm very, very happy with how you've taken that challenge and the papers and the work and the thinking and thoughtfulness that have gone into that as well. So thank you again very much for that. I didn't have an end goal about posting shoe pitches on Twitter. Realistically I should have thought of that and put that in. And I also didn't have an end goal that involved how many different kinds of animals. Can we have a small Twitter war over? But nobody is going to blame me for not thinking of that one. And the other thing, one of the other goals that was really, really important to us was about movement building and giving you people a platform and a space to talk and connect and meet and think together. And I certainly feel that we've had a journey together over the last couple of days and that we as a community have had the opportunity to really get together and really talk to each other, make new friends, find out about each other's work as well. So I'm going to hand over to my great panel here. Quick introductions. At the end we've got Katherine Cronin. She's an educator and researcher at the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the National University of Ireland. Sitting in the middle we've got Muren O'Keefe and she's a researcher and academic developer at Dublin City University. And on the end here, closest to me we've got Laura Cernovich who is director of the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the University of Cape Town. So I'll hand over now and let them get on with the session. Very much actually, we've got a mic. It was the clicker I wanted, Jodi, actually. Thank you. So we are going to give our opinions and reflections in a few moments but what we'd like first is a place to gather your opinions and your reflections on OER 17 so far. So I'd like you to get your devices out. I can see lots of phones and perhaps tablets and if you have access to laptops. And what I'd like you to do is take part on a padlet wall if you've ever heard of that. One of the presentations I was in. So it will look a little like this to start with. It's a blank wall and you double tap on it and the link is here. And we'd like you to reflect on some questions with the person beside you. So it's a think, pair, share activity. I'd like to, as soon as you get to the link I suppose, turn around to your nearest neighbour or even a group of people beside you and have a think about these questions for the next five minutes. What is the most unexpected thing you've learned at the conference? What is the most important or useful thing? And what most important questions or issues are you going to take forward? Okay. So five minutes. I'm hoping to hear lots of noise. Okay. I will type. If you've got something on the end of your fingertips, type it quickly now. I have no idea. I have no idea. Sorry. Martin, they want to show the padlet if possible. And then in a minute after she's finished talking, we need to switch it back. Keep talking. I'll start reading. I'm on here. Okay folks, I'm trying to bring up the padlet walls. We'll actually see that, but I can see lots of activities being really dynamic. And I'm going to read out some of the things. Somebody here has just put on the wall about fear. We need to confront the fear of speaking our mind. That resonates with me. How do we get into these situations where we can have voice? Would anybody want to say a little more about that? No, not at the moment. Sorry. I'll just run through these first. How cool Wikipedia... Oh God, these are moving so fast. An unexpectedly poetic conference with loads of great metaphors. Aside, considerate advocacy, spoiling the trousers. Fantastic. Yeah, I think so too. Another thought, how anglo-centric M-O-E-R is. Another one, keep quiet about the politics. We're novices in some way and can support each other continually in the OER-O-E-P process. Just like any education and learning, I suppose. Great stuff, diverse voices from global south and wider UK and North America. Lots of female voices. Political karaoke. Oh great, we've got them on screen. Political karaoke. I liked this idea about political karaoke during the second keynote. Whoops, they're moving so fast. This is hard to read. Hang in there, be inspired by open. I did the most important question. I'm going to turn to Laura and Catherine and ask if anything stood out on the wall there for either of you. I think what we might do is leave the wall there and do our reflections and maybe come back to that because... Is that okay? Yeah, because I know you're... Okay, that's fine. Well, we'll come back to it then. All right. Okay, so I'll just read out another few here. Useful networking and sharing and I certainly felt like that myself. It's my first OER and I've certainly found a tribe of my own within the OER community here in the last two days. Where do OEP conversations happen? They happen on collaborating, on creating, adopting OER. Where does this happen in the physical virtual spaces? Okay, and most fun was the Mickey and Geek media games and I did see something that on Twitter and I think I missed out on that one. So it looks like a lot of fun. All right, so... So I read one and it said I was made bad. I don't know, so if that was like your cry for help, come and have a word afterwards. Okay, and we'll sort you out somehow. We'll make you better in some way. Oh no, I didn't. I only read it in passing. I'm going to go back and pour over it tonight. Okay, so that's going to stay there and we've got that resource there. So thank you ever so much for that. I'm going to now ask the panel to share their reflections in terms of the conference. So I'll hand over to Catherine first, please. Thank you very much. And thanks so much for the opportunity, Josie and Alec. We wanted to start, this is on behalf of all of us, just to thank the three amazing keynotes. And if you want to express your gratitude as well, please do. We had a chat before the conference and we realized that even among the three of us, we could experience less than half the conference only because it's been such an amazing, the rich program, but we all really enjoyed the keynotes. And in particular, we gathered after Diana's keynote yesterday, whereas Diana, okay, and felt that she really put the gauntlet down to us and we thought, how will we be able to incorporate artistic expression in our final comments? And we decided that we would just very quickly choose two examples of what we saw as deep artistic community expressions, one from Ireland and one from South Africa. So does anyone know what this logo is? Repeal the Eighth Amendment? Okay. For those of you who don't, Ireland has an Eighth Amendment in the Constitution which equates the life of a pregnant woman with the life of the unborn. So abortion is illegal in Ireland. And several women travel over every day from Ireland to the UK and to other places in order to get abortions. Now, international human rights organizations from the European Court of Human Rights to Amnesty International have criticized Ireland and challenged them on this. And there's a growing movement called the repeal the Eighth Movement. You can see the hashtag there which is trying to repeal the Eighth Amendment. So there was a mural that appeared. I shared some murals last year when I was at OER 16. This was a mural on the Project Art Center in Dublin. There have been dozens of murals on this wall but this mural was objected to almost as soon as it went up by Mazer, a graffiti artist. And challenge was made to the Dublin City Council and the mural had to be removed. So over the course of a couple of days that mural was wiped out but the artistic and resistant expression of women in Dublin to this was enormous. So one of the things that happened was that women gathered in front of the wall and painted themselves blue. And that kind of active erasure was turned into a very powerful act of resistance. And there were, that women is holding up a repeal donut. There was repeal clothing. There's repeal light installations and so on. And hopefully we'll get to share this with Diana as well because I think it really is in the vein of what she was talking about. In terms of the conference the only padlet note that I could read before they all went whizzing by was now we've talked the talk and we have to walk the walk. I don't know who said that but that's kind of where I'm feeling at the moment at the end of the two days. The same experience can be interpreted so differently by different people and that was brought home to me. You know there was a question in one of the workshops I was in yesterday saying we're talking about open in education but we're not talking about beyond education. And many other discussions I was in say you know we're talking about changing society here. We all just see education as being a very powerful way of doing that. Lucy reinforced that this morning. Another comment that I heard was someone who said oh I now understand that critical means critical discourse and critical social theory I thought it meant being critical of. So I think we really need to be careful when we talk about being the importance of critical discourse that it doesn't mean being antagonistic. As some people said today that it can come from a place of care as Capel says so beautifully. This body of work in critical social theory is we can draw on to a much greater extent than we have. This is my third OER conference. The first one was OER 15 and there was a small strand of work I would say at that conference that could be called critical. Last year that was a bit larger and this year it's just exploded. And I think these are the conversations that we need to have open can improve access and equity as so many of the presentations here have shown. But it can also exacerbate inequality as we know openness is always negotiated on an individual basis. So open educational practices I found in my own work is always personal. It's always contextual and it's always continuously negotiated. So we can be advocates for openness in a societal institutional level but still be very cognizant of the risks that we may be asking people to take. Staff students whoever when we're advocating for openness. And finally just I want to counterpose my experience here at OER 17 with my recent experience at OER Global. And as was mentioned also in the paddle. Well I think we really need to challenge our northern centered epistemology. And I think that was done to a great extent here at the conference we could do it more. The work of Wikimedia globally is hugely important in that respect. But we as researchers in the global north whether that means North America UK Europe whatever that means for you. We have a collective responsibility to deepen our awareness of work done on a more global level in open education it is there. That's all to start with. Thank you. So Diana had an influence on us. And I'd like to start by showing you this image of performance art which happened in 2015 at the University of Cape Town when student protests led to the removal of the road statue which had always stood at the front of the campus. And during this event an art student in fact not a drama student has set in Billy and Cezanne spent four hours dressed up as a Zimbabwe bird flapping these incredibly heavy wings. As a protest to the fact that roads had gone to Great Zimbabwe which as you know is an enormous historical importance and stolen the sculpture of the Zimbabwe bird. Which is still in his official residence. And to me it speaks to the conference in the sense of the kinds of issues around protest and decolonialism and the geopolitics of knowledge and the issues of southern epistemologies that Catherine has referred to. I really think emerged at this conference. So I really think kudos to the organizers because this was a very explicit conference in terms of its themes. Most of the time conferences have themes and they are indicative of their tokens. But I think in this particular case when I was looking through my notes of the conference the sessions I went to and of course I went to a sixth of the conference. The issues of criticality, of coloniality, of androcentrism, of democracy, questions of freedom and openness that have been discussed in several sessions. The focus on development, so the development goals at an open education conference which have come up in at least three places. I think that that's been really exciting. It really hasn't been on the edge. It's been pretty central to the conference. So that's been really exciting. The one thing that I would like to put out as a challenge to the community is that I think we've been all quite quick to talk about the commons. And I feel like it's a bit of a throwaway line and I would like to see the open education community explore the notion of the commons in much more detail because I don't think that the commons as it's spoken about originally in nature is the same as the digital commons. I think it's actually quite a complex notion and it's quite an easy thing for us to suggest as an alternative imaginary. So that's perhaps a gauntlet that I'm throwing down and then another one that I'm throwing down which I think is much more contentious but I think it's the role of the panellists to be contentious. I've been a little bit concerned during this conference at the easy homogenizing of all references to the market. The market commerce, neoliberalism, all these bad terrible things that we all object to and of course this is not a pro market statement. But I think we also need to develop a more nuanced engagement with the hybrid economy that higher education actually is. And there's a danger that we seem to be suggesting that the state should take over education and the state. I'm not sure that is, well, I wouldn't be promoting that. So I think something else I'd like to see is a more robust engagement with different types of models. That terrible word business models, which everyone is so averse to but I think we need to be really exploring. And I think it's in our own interests because while we're sitting about saying this is all very terrible, the market's doing really, really well in taking over the world and I think we need to be engaging in a much more nuanced and complex way with the hybrid economy of provision that we are part of. Thank you, Catherine and Laura. I guess we all come into conferences and to situations and contexts as different people with different experiences and in different positions in institutions, in society, in the world. And I feel in entering into OER17, my first OER conference that I am a relatively new person into this network. Also within my working context, I've worked in several different universities and each because of short term contracts and I'm sure many people have been affected by those kind of things. So I suppose I'm talking about the issues of power and how my experience have influenced my thinking around the conference teams. So as a person, I perceive myself with low power, but what has resonated with me at the conference is opening up conversations about influence. Listening to people, how they have been able to influence, how they talk to people, let's say in a strategic way, but also in a ground up way. Talking to other champions of learning and teaching or open education. Finding the people who have similar or maybe dissimilar mindsets about open education and finding those. And I think that that's a process. It's about forming relationships with people. And I look forward to being involved more in the OER community and building more relationships like that. And hopefully in my own future work in institutions, I will have better and more strategies to make influence myself, to talk about e-learning perhaps in a different way, to talk about academic development, which is my own area in a better way and influence things that I think would be worthwhile following on institutional strategies. Yeah, this image I suppose sums up, was mentioned, I think it's from Brian Mathers, Catherine was saying. And while Diana yesterday was using it in terms of finding the location, I thought it was very useful. She mentioned about collaborative efforts and as an artist working with somebody to find the location where art could be displayed. For myself, I feel that I haven't known where that location is. But I'm hoping that these collaborations that I'll be able to talk to people and find those locations. So that's why that image resonates with me. I think that's about all for me for the moment. So we've got a little bit of time now for you as delegates and as the community to actually either ask questions of the panellists who have been kind of thinking about the higher level of the conference or as has proved very popular in this conference for you to share your reflections with us in this session. And you're welcome to do that briefly. We welcome hearing that as well. Thank you very much for the really great everyone reflections. I have a question actually now, not a comment. Laura, you were talking about the models. And I'm quite, I would say ignorant and just didn't get really what you're talking about. Although I think I have a general idea and it seems important to take that into account. Could you extend on that idea so I could then know better what to do next in a way? Thank you. I was referring to the way that teaching and learning provision is unbundling in higher education. And that's leading to new forms of relationships with different partners and to the kind of fragmentation where it's now possible for teaching content, assessment, support, online exams, whatever could be undertaken by different partners in different configurations. And I think that the private sector is taking advantage of exploring this in really interesting ways driven very often by profit motives, although one must be careful not to conflict nonprofits with profit organizations. But I'm concerned that the open education movement is not doing enough to explore new models afforded by the new technologies. So we can all think of a handful of models, but I'm worried that there are incredible opportunities of new forms of provision that are afforded by the technologies that are possible that we're not spending enough time developing for different ends. So that's what I was referring to. Hear me? Yes. Okay. First of all, I'd like to say it's been a really fabulous two days. I think I'll probably speak for everybody when I say I'm just buzzing with ideas. The past two days have really made me feel that I found my tribe and we all share very similar values and we're open to learning. Open is not just a concept, it's actually what we do and how we engage with each other. And that's so fabulous that I'm reluctant to introduce a negative note, but it's been niggling at the back of my mind and I'm going to try and articulate it. And that's, you know, we've talked in a lot of the sessions about the forces of, are we calling it Trexit now? And that's been such a dominating force over the past year or so. That seemed to come almost from nowhere. And I'm just conscious that we're in danger of creating a kind of echo chamber because we have these shared values and shared approaches that actually the open education model can be used by anybody. So OER 18 might have people who are interested in developing OERs to educate people about the dangers of immigration or, you know, things that we would consider not to be such open messages and not chime with their values. And I'm just wondering, I've seen so many relatively open spaces being colonized by more toxic people and more toxic messages and I'm wondering, as an open community, is that something we should be conscious of? Thank you so much. I'm sure that Murn and Laura might have things to say as well. It's one of the things that's troubled me as well is that being in this community can feel like a warm bath sometimes and that we can fool ourselves into thinking that, you know, open educators are people who are committed to democratic practices and so on. And certainly one of the things I found in my own research is that some people get involved in open education for purely structural reasons. You know, they may end up in a situation where they have to use open practices they don't want to and many, many other reasons. So I think you're right to crack that open and be careful about the assumptions that we make. I've been enthused at the conference about the number of people who have been talking about things outside of higher education. So the Wikimedia work, the work that's done in the GLAM sector, the works that's being done in schools and thinking of Sarah Brune here, the liaisons that are going on between higher education and the community. And I think we need to do much, much more of that because we are in echo chambers. And there's a poverty of language sometime around openness when we all think it means the same thing and we have to crack open those terms. Even the question Caroline just asked about what do you mean by models. So yeah, I mean I suppose I can only agree with you and think that we need to do more to move outside of our kind of comfort zones in terms of language and in terms of how and where we act and do our work. I don't know if that's helpful but I hear you. Have you got any more questions or comments at this point? Okay, so what we're going to do now then is move on to our next activity. You don't get to rest. You could have had a rest if one of you wanted to ask a question. But because none of you did, you've all got to work now. I should have probably said that before but the thing is it's so enjoyable it won't even seem like any effort at all. Okay, so I'll pass you over for the next activity. All we want to do now is close for just the purposes of this conference. A beautiful circle that was started by Maha's keynote yesterday morning where she talked about intentionality and that the gift metaphor can be problematic. But the only way we know if that's problematic is if we're very clear about our intentions and bring those to light and open them for discussion and examination. So we just wanted to ask you all before you hit the road to share. You can do it with your partner as well but if you could tweet it if you're on Twitter use the OER 17 hashtag and the hashtag I will just to share an intention that you have or more than one. And so as not to exclude the people who aren't on Twitter we've also set up a Google doc and the link is there. So just to reflect on something that you intend to do or intend to take forward from the conference and then we'll wrap this up. Thank you. It's come up. I know that it's always come up but if we can think about the things that we're going to actually take forward from the conference and the things that we either came with in terms of our commitments and have been strengthened by the things at the conference or things that actually we want to try and explore the needed directions that we want to take that have been inspired by things that we've learned at the conference and people that we've met and spoken to at the conference as well. Hi. I'm just looking at the I will intentions there and I see one there. And I will going to post in SIG blog even if it's crap. And I'm saying Catherine said in a session yesterday about Wikipedia. I think go do it and for myself who I've had a blog let's say for the last five or six years but I've only I think been finding my voice in the last year on it. And I wish that I had put myself out there a little more. It is a bit of a reach into that space. It does feel vulnerable but it is worthwhile because then other people know who you are. I know what your interests are and those people have reached into my space then give me what Bonnie Stewart calls care and support. And especially when I was on my and doing my doctorate last year. So yeah blog do that blog whoever has posted that. Marion I think so thank you. I will raise some hell. Lauren is going to find out how long ago it lives. And I will desperate to find out. And I will store five these I will tweets to share. OK. Somebody else is going to resurrect their Wikimedia account and use it. And Mara and Deepa said about policy. Work on policy enable more practice in my organization. And I was at Alex talk earlier on who's talking about policy being that dark matter. And I was I was trying to articulate something about like policy. You know I really feel that it is beyond me that it is far away from me from where I sit within the context of everything. And but it is something that policy can be powerful. And it's useful to put ourselves in the position where we can take part in conversations that influence strategy and policy. And so I'm going to try and do that in my next and I suppose my work place or context in those conversations that influence policy. Checking the Google and Google Doc as well. So I'm just going to check that. I will read. Open the philosophy and practices that are revolutionizing education and science. By Rajiv and talk to the teachers at my institution about OER awareness stimulates usage of OER. That's it. And that's something else that came across to me about like how to influence it's awareness raising and awareness raising in a number of different contexts and locations. Open knowledge education working groups say we will keep promoting supporting and advocating open education enabling spaces for participation collaboration and dialogue. And maybe in the spirit of karaoke we should all stand up and sing we will survive. That might be an eye will too far. I think there's going to be announcement about the OER 18 chairs. Is that right. Does that happen today or. OK. Yeah. But what all I'm saying is whoever those people are we don't know who they are yet. I don't know who they are but there's a lot of love for OER 18 in the stream and someone said that they're coming. Lots of people saying they're coming and they're going to bring three more people in addition to themselves. Very exciting. Yeah. That's going to be announced very shortly. You're obviously going to be the first people to know who those new chairs are going to be. What the possible topic might be. We'll be doing that. We'll be announcing that very soon. Before we do that though we're going to. Did you want to do any more of the tweets at the moment. OK. So we're going to hand back over for some final words from our panelists. OK. I hardly know what to say. I'll just be really brief. I think one thing that I wanted to say before that I didn't say was I would like to encourage more research that is qualitative interpretive, dialogic and critical because some of the most wonderful work that I heard and saw in the last two days is based on that kind of research. And it helps us to really combat the facile assumptions that are often made by policymakers in different positions who make who make as I said facile assumptions about the digital and about open. So that's my challenge or encouragement. Yeah. And to link in with that I mentioned my research that it was qualitative and about the real experiences of people who were trying to use Twitter to put voice online and that there was real barriers and inhibitors in an effective and in a social way. And I see a lot of people tweeting here said I am going to blog. I am going to reach out. I know you guys had that intention but for certain reasons of I suppose confidence my own vulnerability and the vulnerability of being in precarious work positions as well. I felt that they were a real barrier. So for those people who are going to blog I'm not sure if you'll come across if you'll feel in those same ways. But this is a great network and if you can find a peer to review your post if you need that kind of help. And that's what I wish that I had actually was you know somebody else to review something that if I was going to express voice. And so ask somebody to review it maybe if you if you like if you need to and reach out and ask any of us here about that for help. One of the. I had lots of notes on this conference and one of the things that I didn't say earlier was that it was really lovely to see how theorized so much of the work has been. And I know many people struggle over this. How do I be an advocate and a practitioner and a professional and a scholar. Well actually people are doing it. And so I think let's stop stressing about that and just just do it. Just keep doing it. OK. So thank you very much. Let's have a round of applause for our panel. Yes. See you next year. Next year. I'll drop you an email. OK. So this is the part of the day when I feel a little bit sad. Alec has a little tear come to his eye because it's the time when we actually have to relinquish our mighty power as co-chairs. And pass on our beautiful OER tiaras to the next people that are coming. But before we're going to do that we're going to say some thank yous to people. So first of all we want to say thank you obviously to everyone who made this event happen. But huge huge thanks to the conference committee who did loads and loads of hard work made sure everything went like clockwork. And I think we can all agree picked an amazing selection of papers for us all to enjoy. So I mean thank you ever so much for the quality of work. On the other side of that thank you very much to everybody who submitted that work and everybody who came along and actually spoke, delivered workshops and gave speeches for us. We really really really appreciate that very much. The other people that we need to thank are obviously our sponsors who we're very very grateful to for supporting the event and showing that they're standing with us in terms of what we want to achieve and the things that we wanted to work through at this conference. So thank you very very much to Reclaim Hosting and to Spark for being there for us. We'll see you next year. And we also have got four people that we want to specifically thank who have been involved in promoting and sharing and talking about the conference on social media. So can I ask Joe, Rebecca, Jeffrey and Sinead to come up and can we give them a round of applause as well. We also want to thank the chairs of the sessions that's a very small but important role that makes things work fluidly. And I also wanted to thank but I'm sure you agree because this is out of the program people who do the virtually connecting work. You know it's a very important bridge that bridges the real with the virtual or rather the real with the real. I find that it really this is a crucial element. So thank you to you. And finally last but not least we want to thank Marin and Martin and the whole team that worked with us and Krista and I'm forgetting to other people. I'm sorry but I must say as a chair this has been just fabulously nice work working with you because it was all so well organized and professional and amazing. So thank you very much. Well thank you on behalf of the whole team that works with me and all five of us were delighted that we've been able to be part of this and support this community. It is my honor on behalf of all of us here to thank two more people who for the last 12 months have worked tirelessly to pull this event together. And I think whose vision and exemplary leadership for this conference has really helped make this a very stand out event. The shoes from previous coaches of the OER conferences are very big and I have to say they are getting bigger every year. So if you'd like to put your hands together one more time for Alec and Josie. But now saying that the shoes are getting bigger every year so there's no pressure. We're coming to that part of the afternoon where we're looking ahead at next year and seeing what we can do to take action. What the eye wills will turn into in the next 12 months because we're now ready to announce OER 18. And for that we have a very special guest who I'm now going to ask to come up and join me on stage. She's very bravely representing the conference next year on her own. So please give her a very warm welcome Vivian Rolf. I'm not prepared I really am. This is just so much too much and who said stepping outside of comfort zones Catherine. Because you know you are a community that has had such an impact on me for way over 10 years now. Through my work through my research and it is utterly overwhelming to be studia. A six girl done good. But anyway I'm so well you wouldn't think so. I'm sorry about the shoes but I'm sure my co-chair who you'll meet in a minute will look stunning in some heels. And we're going to keep the theme of what we've started this year really. I think you know there has been such a leap forward and there's so much vibrancy in the room. We're going to keep the themes around diversity. We're going to keep the themes around engaging with our communities. But I think the people that we perhaps haven't heard so much about in the conference in the last few days has been our learners and our extended communities back in our organizations. So very much the theme of next year will be as open education has kind of hit its terrible teens. We're 17 years down the line now in the UK from some of those early starts. What has been the impact on our learners and how have they benefited from engaging in open practices and all the cool things that you're doing with people back in your organization. So it's all about the student and the learner next year. So I hope you approve of that. So I'm not going to do this on my own obviously. That's a very difficult job and such a tough act to follow with these two guys. So my coach unfortunately is now sailing around the Mediterranean as yacht as we speak. But he's marred up in Barcelona and he's left a video message with Martin Hawksy. I think Martin's going to play some of this if that's OK. I might do. I said everything needs to be called OK. We go chairs. We go curtains. Can we get some gold shoes for a meal? That would work. Yeah. And yeah. I mean obviously of course business pass. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely OK. Hi. I'm David Cannon. You caught me co-chairing a conference. I'd like to welcome you all to the idea of OER 18. There's been a number of promises made about urban education. What it can do for the world. What it can do for learning. OER 18 is a conference where we find out how well we've done and what work we still need to do. I'm really sorry I can't be there with you at OER 17. But I am so looking forward to being there at the conference in April 2018. OER 18. So I don't know what this talk about goats is. It's all about the dogs. Right. I did ask Mike to co-chair but I thought you know themes around sticks and sofa cushions just wouldn't hack it. So but anyway we really look forward to working with all of you and thank you to those of you that were already volunteered to be on the committee for next time. We look forward to working with your own. I know he's really keen. So there we go. Good to go. See you on the ice. So there's no time like the present time to turn your I will intention to a sign up for volunteering for next year. If you go and go to the conference website you can now sign up and become part of our community for the next 12 months. It has been a huge privilege to share the last two days with you and we are finishing five minutes early. So please do make sure you have all your belongings. Have a safe journey home and help us spread our message about the importance of openness in education and beyond across the globe. Thank you very much.