 If you take a look at the perspective of education and digitalization it's always a question of if you address the few or the many. And yesterday for those that were here in the session at 12.15 we had a very nice presentation of the Austrian solution related to this sort of big question. And when I'm talking about the Austrian solution this is really the Austrian solution. So it's not a part of it with a small network trying to do something but structures that have been established over the years. Some things work out better than others. But reaching from actually primary level to upper secondary level of all schools. We do have corporations with universities as well but still focused on the school system and all the way to the federal ministry of education. Which means that we are now at a situation where we have the connection to both teachers that use digital aspects and everyday classroom work as well as getting funding for the development and maintenance of our very central platform which has the name individual. Which means that actually everything we are talking about today in my presentation relates on one behalf on this network structure but it comes down to and I can give you the executive summary right away of the big, big, big moodle installations that are hosted centrally by the federal ministry of education that are available to everyone. And the part I'm in charge of started 2016 and has the name e-education. And e-education is a network of schools that have the emphasis on digitalization in general. We started out 2016 with 300 schools. By now we have around 4000 schools that participate in this network. And taking the size of Austrian to account we have a total of 6000 schools. It's quite a big number that we can reach with the idea of digitalization and all aspects that relate to this. I'm going to tell you a little bit about this network but first I also think that you will not be able to read everything but I can give you the main top-down impression. The federal ministry of education has established work groups that address different levels within the school system. One is that the way the school system works is we have local educational authorities in each state and these local authorities are actually in charge of state schools. In addition we have the idea that these local authorities and these states we have nine states in Austria are in charge of primary and lower secondary education. And we have other school types. One is academic school. The other school types are related to upper secondary education. That's where the federal ministry is in charge of. And so for example just taking a consideration of how the problems sometimes are in Germany where they have 16 states and they're so much bigger for them it's a little more difficult to find a central strategy. But Austria being so small this is still possible. And then if we have this federalistic case of different obligations that the states have related to schools as well as the federal ministry we sort of all work together. And for example one practical example is our centralized model platform which means that vocational schools, primary schools, lower and upper secondary schools and all the way to universities can access the same system. So in addition to that we have one thing which is maybe a little untypical or typical to Austria let's say that is that we have also nine universities of education. And these nine universities of education also want being in each state. We have a few more, we have some private universities as well. They're actually in charge of either basic or further teacher education. And then we also have the virtual university of education which has done the digital agenda over the past years where they tried to promote e-learning related things, digitalization in general. But still this whole network, this is the structure in Austria and e-education, this teacher network relates to all these fields. Which means that we have actually a great number of persons that work. You see here in the lower right hand corner that there are 60 state coordinators which means that they're actually provisioned from the federal ministry with sort of money or hours that they get for their support of schools. And that starts with primary schools up to upper secondary schools and depending on the size of each state there's a different number of state coordinators. But we then coordinate them with a team, a core team of about additional 15 persons so it's a total of about 80 persons that try to improve digitalization in general for schools throughout Austria. We got the new numbers just recently because I was talking about two-thirds of schools participating in this network. Actually it's 78% of all teachers and students in Austrian schools that work in e-education schools blind to this network. What we do is we have two big conferences with around 300 persons per year. One is in March, one is in November and we also try to emphasize on using didactical tools, digital tools in classroom situations reflect upon them and try to sort of take the best out of this. And it's a very good way of connecting all those people that are engaged just in this particular part of digitalization and exchange their thoughts on that. The last conference we had of course was related to AI. Let me give you this idea of the principles of this network and actually this is our sort of solution we found that we need to tackle. We have this like a pillar concept, these different perspectives within each organization. So the first column would be digital competencies which means at first all the people that want to use any software in classroom situations for teaching they have to have a certain basic fundament of digital competencies. So we try to emphasize our educational programs on establishing this. The first step is try to get the teachers to become more digital in general. This then means, then we are moving to the second pillar, that we can address the question of how does this transfer to classroom situations. How are the tools being used? Which tools are being used? This is where Moodle kicks in for example. Still our perspective is not to look towards specific situations in schools but in general to enable and this means that we have to have a broader perspective towards the whole idea. You know probably that Moodle of course is a very big system but sometimes it can become overwhelming for an individual. So that's where we focus on. We have apps for example that focus just on the reduction in the front end of Moodle so the first steps are easy even in the classroom situations. And then the third pillar which is actually a very important one that's the organizational development. How does the organization you teach in provide services to you as a teacher to be able to do this? And this is a big perspective because of course there are the aspects of infrastructure for example but still what's the main idea? What are the perspectives of the organization related to learning? What's the philosophy? How much freedom does a teacher have in maybe transporting certain ideas of a curricula? And we have enabled a set of tools where schools can relate to that self-assess and then see which are the necessary next steps to take so they will be able to develop something like a digitalization concept and then based upon this develop the needs for the education that is needed for their staff. To provide you with some numbers and this is also a key point of our basic idea of e-education is that we have this sort of gamification idea and actually it has worked out pretty well since 2016. And the gamification idea is the following. We have a concept of three levels. We have so-called member schools, expert schools and expert plus schools. So if a school decides to become a member of our network of the e-education network which is totally free of charge because it is a project run by the Federal Ministry of Education they just have to fill in an online form. And that was it. So then they're a member of this network and this just means giving the message yes we want to try to go on the digital path. And then our gamification idea kicks in. You see this different types of batch categories up there and these are batches that are actually not given to a person but to an organization. So a school working on different digital ideas they document what they're doing and earn points by doing this and this is where the network of our 60 state coordinators kicks in because they reflect, give feedback, acknowledge, say yes this is okay or this is not okay. And they can even decline activities that schools turned in if it's not too much pedagogy or digitalization involved. And by this at a certain stage the schools become expert schools and from this moment on they're able to access the centralized budgets which is sort of a neat idea. We have a budget of half a million euros per year that we can use for further teacher education. And once you have this expert status and you have acquired it during a school year you have it kept for the next year as well and then if you would stop documenting you would drop down to member status again. So we have a shift between member schools and expert schools all the time. The expert plus schools, those are the ones that are the highlights. They have a digitalization concept. They have a very big focus on digitalization. Often they contribute teachers to our further educational programs because they tell about technologies and as I mentioned before if you want to broaden the perspective then of course it's not only open source. We have other players, we have Google, we have Microsoft and we want to provide them with easy entry points in the frameworks that they are using. However, keeping in mind that there is a very much more useful system in the background called Moodle. And so we let them work in their context but then open it up from step to step. And this is where at any time any teacher can switch over from one product so to speak to the other. The other things that we have also is of course e-learning scenarios I will come to that a little further down the road and those proposed activities that these are actually the activities that the schools document. And now we have almost 100,000 activities that have been documented in the past years related to different fields in our badges system. And so that's actually the measure of all things. You come from member to expert schools and what our state coordinators have is actually a statistical dashboard that shows what are the expert schools in my state, where is development needed and they try to support these schools on this agenda. As I mentioned, we have the self-assessment tool in place for schools so they can get a basic idea of what digital competence means in general and we heard it yesterday, there are EU frameworks like DitchComp, DitchComp edu or DitchComp org that we use as base of the self-assessment. So everyone knows about digitalization in general. If a school logs in, what they can see is the different tools that are provided for them for this reflection part for creating digitalization concepts but also to document the activities or at the very bottom you would see the individual registration which means if a school then just clicks this button automatically a course area is created for the school as was presented yesterday where schools then immediately have access to our big moodle installations just like one click. So first they become member with the education and then they are automatically sent to this other system as well. Here's a perspective or a view of the statistics that are produced and depending on the role system and the role you have in the system you get different forms of aggregation of these statistics but this is then base of your work to see where improvements can be done. And now just to give you an idea of what kind of activities there exist we have our main batch categories but within these categories we have these activities like using a learning management system school-wide that gives you 10 points that you can have if you prove that you have this in place or that you use it and depending on the school size you then get a point limit you have to reach and after you have reached this then you come to this expert status and so at any time you can even then download a certificate which shows you okay now I have become expert school and this is also a little bit of a marketing instrument for schools to show that they're on their technical way. Another thing that we have in place which is kind of neat is actually that we have all our curricula from all subjects from primary to upper secondary in one system which is competency based. I will show it to you right away it's actually a software it's called Comet it's like competence grid editing tool which enables you to develop competence grids and that's very important to understand what the difference is between competences and competence grids because competence grids also introduce a level of complexity like taking the presentation from yesterday with language skills you start with A1 to C2 you can have this applied to virtually any subject and by doing this we put learning objects to these competence fields for teachers to use and so they know in classroom situations immediately okay I can actually select what is my subject at which level do I want to teach and have this material accessible right away for example for digitalization we have about 500 examples just related to digitalization in different subjects called DigiComp and they're freely available and they're all Moodle courses like one learning object is equal out to one Moodle course of course keeping in mind that not everyone is using a Moodle it is open to that degree that we cannot use Moodle activities within this openness unless you log in but still we have the metadata provided and the learning objects and actually the way it works is then the description of the competence and then the examples the learning objects are directly related to this and can be called up and then you see already here if you click on one of those links you're in a Moodle course which is openly available the Moodle installation is configured this way that it's open for everyone and we call this concept Etapas and actually the founder of this idea is Robert and me many years ago because we both love tapas and the idea of having a didactical scenario it's not so much about the content but it's more about telling a teacher on how to use this content in a specific context in his classroom work so this has certain restrictions it has to be OER it has to be something that can be done within one hour of teaching so maybe even a teacher that kicks in for a different teacher that could go on this website and immediately tell the students go ahead and work on this example and then would also get the solution if the teacher works with Moodle all Moodle possibilities kick in if a teacher works with a different platform we even have onboarding from teams to Moodle so if someone uses Microsoft and uses Microsoft Teams they would have an app that transports all these Etapas into the Microsoft course and actually hidden behind that there's a transfer of all the students that are synchronized from Microsoft Teams to our central Moodle installation and the data is stored in Moodle and it works perfectly and the teacher doesn't care where the data is saved they just want to onboard in their system that they're used to work with the big idea of course is Teams is not a learning management system it's something that you can onboard or you have a communication possibility but there's more and what Robert showed yesterday was actually now the very big idea which is called Bildungsportal and this is this very central mechanism it's one big portal which is one big Moodle installation that connects all e-government applications to the educational context so you see these different platforms the first one is e-education that's our teaching network that we support they can log in and have all the data that is from the single sign mechanism available within that platform which relates to school development and digital competencies individual being the Moodle installation for technologies savvy teachers automatically has all the accounts made available edutik, that's the next project that we're just tackling is this going to be where the content is? Yes, what it's based on it will be a Moodle repository function to transport all the data to all different platforms and all the content that is related to this being used in school we have an edtech integration so edtech companies can also apply to become part of this Bildungsportal and then there are different levels of integration of their software so they can become part of this system in general and then we have PH online that's the further education qualification platform used by the universities of education where also teachers log in and have all these resources available and so now saying this we have actually now four Moodles in plan working together we have the government Moodle where all teachers, students and parents can log in I talked to Martin a couple of days ago and I said hey we're heading towards the biggest Moodle installation worldwide be careful in China they have an open university they have 3.5 million and I said we're going towards 3 million but of course it's about numbers and don't take it too seriously we can put it into a different context compared to all the people that live in Austria the population is 9 million we can reach with this first platform one third of the whole population coming down to open university would be 0.002 for 1.4 billion Chinese but it's just about numbers then of course individual as we mentioned yesterday that's the platform that we use for didactics mostly then Moodle as material repository I just mentioned that and now we also have this idea the name is not going to be individual light but the idea is that if you have a teacher that you want to onboard and you have everything done in the background you automatically create courses and so on this could be a Moodle installation where this is kept so it's lightweight and easy to access for everyone and nobody knows right away that they're working with Moodle we'll do this subversively one step after the other that's a basic idea but just to give you the number it's a big thing and actually the talks that we had in the past few days was especially from Sandra, Julia and also Robert the installations that have a similar size and issues that we have related to that so it was very good that we are present here it was perfect and that's just a new face of the individual platform that we just updated to a 4.2 version and now taking this graphic into consideration I just want to point out some points so moving from the left side of e-education where we emphasize on transporting and disseminating all this knowledge to teachers we have all the learning objects which are available on the site but they're connected with this Comet tool so they have a specific pedagogical context to curricula to each subject and we have this synchronized with which is this material repository and synchronized with the individual platform for those that might know the ExabiSeries that's a product series that we initiated many years ago it's a portfolio work and competency-based education as plugins for Moodle we use them to get the data into Moodle to get the learning objects into Moodle and as you see down here it does not matter to us even MS teams that you start with you connect to this whole complex and all these interfaces have been atomized so far and there are two apps that we have developed together with Germany Baden-Württemberg State of Baden-Württemberg in the past few years where they concentrate on using competence grids to develop individualized learning paths the main idea would be first take a test as a student and then you find the position in a competence grid depending on the level of your knowledge and then once you have this position defined in this competence grid the system then shows you what are the next steps to take to reach your goal and that's what the project is about the comet tool actually is something which is outside of Moodle it's also based on open source it's a content management system called typo3 open source a big CMS around Europe enterprise based and we do the creation of the competence grids there so many can participate and this is platform independent but then this is synchronized to Moodle and even from our block we have a script that then synchronizes this to the Moodle competencies back and forth so it's pretty much working well on this behalf actually the very bottom two apps this is where pedagogy or didactics kick in because this is when you have to think about how can you be supportive to a learner using digital technology three more minutes to go and I think that's time for the questions thank you hello Bildung's portal is based on MoodleNet somehow on Moodle it's hosted centrally at the federal ministry of education thank you any other questions Martin oh my god that's not technical what's the what's the support from the government of like for this and teachers and associations of teachers and so on is there a general good feeling politically? yes and we have a very big advantage for example Robert he was the one that initiated individual centrally I took his job over and everything was almost finished and he moved to the federal ministry of education so now we have this starting with funding all the way to classroom work and of course to be realistic our government still pays licensing fees to Microsoft but in addition they have a budget for open source development which is great and giving half a million euros per year for further teacher education that's fine as well and then in addition we have those state coordinators that get money for their work and for the eTapas I forgot to mention those OER learning objects they're also financed so you get around 250 euros if you produce one of those eTapas so that's incentive for a teacher to do this and I've always loved your work around competencies for many years and the modules and things you've written would still love to see that getting to course somehow it's another big discussion but if you haven't seen his what's it called again? Exibis competencies Exibis check it out it's on the plugins database Thank you and Martin thank you so much that you participated we have a special relationship because we both love your platform and I think I was one of the few persons in your life that cost you a sleepless night Remember Moodle Mood Miami That's a very good story for another time Thank you very much Cigar