 Hello everyone, I'm Jessica Gramp, Moodle Community Manager and I'm here today with Anna Kraser, the Education Advisor in Moodle Academy and I'm going to talk about the future of Moodle Academy. Can everyone hear me okay up the back? Yeah, hopefully. So the Moodle Academy team has doubled in size recently since the beginning of this year. You may recognise some familiar faces, one of whom you just saw at the front of the room, Mary Cooch, our Education Manager. And Aurelie Soulière, some of you may know, she started with us yesterday as our Community Engagement Lead. So please say hi if you see her wandering around the conference, but it's her second day so she's keen to hear your thoughts and she'll start working with the community soon. Richard Lafroy is speaking directly after us, he's our learning and media technologist and Raje Neel is our developer educator so he's been creating our developer courses on Moodle Academy. We have a new start from about a month ago, Federico Astorga, our UX designer and of course Sandra Matz who has been working hard to put this moot on for us today. So if you see any of us around the conference please come say hi. So what is Moodle Academy? Moodle Academy is the learning hub for the global Moodle community. It's here to help you learn everything about online education within Moodle and it's a community of practice for professional development, interaction and best practice where users can get a Moodle badge or certificate to help grow in their career as an educator, administrator, developer or designer. Moodle Academy launched in mid-August 2021 and it offers free self-paced courses to help everyone make the most out of Moodle and e-learning. You can get to Moodle Academy through Moodle.academy and create your own user account. Our courses are open so they're CCBY mostly and they're available for people to copy and reuse the content. There's a badge for every course and certificates are available for programs of sets of courses for a small fee. So what kind of courses can you find on Moodle Academy? We have three learning pathways, one for educators where you can learn how to teach, assess and communicate with your learners, one for Moodle administrators where you can learn how to manage and customize your Moodle site and a Moodle developer pathway which is all about learning how to develop with Moodle, create plugins, contribute to Moodle core code and set up your own Moodle development environment. We currently have four programs, over 47 courses. We've issued over 6,500 badges and we've got over 15,500 users registered so far. Here's a snapshot of some of our courses and it gives you an idea of the variety of courses we offer. So things like facilitating forums, we have a course on ABC learning design, one on introduction to Moodle net and developer courses like web output essentials. We also offer general courses like introduction to Moodle and introduction to accessibility. And we run regular webinars, so at the moment about two a month and we have also started delivering these in languages other than English. So on the right you can see a snapshot of our current webinars. If any of these peak your interest you can go on to Moodle.academy and sign up and if you can't make the actual webinar you can catch, watch the recording afterwards. Until the end of this year we've run, we'll have run 23 webinars and co-presented 11 of these. So roughly half are co-presented with community members including our partners. We've had over 1,200 people attend and over 36,000 views on YouTube. In the future we're planning to focus more on the developer and administrator pathways and enrich the general pathway as well, increase our frequency of webinars, offer webinars in more languages. We want to set up a credit payment system so organizations can fund their staff to get certified and integrate with your past digital credentials. We also have a suite of programs which are sets of courses where you can achieve a certificate of completion and we currently offer four programs. We've got Moodle Teaching Basics, Moodle Teaching Skills, Moodle Developer Basics and Moodle Admin Basics. And if you are familiar with Learn Moodle you'll recognise some of these names. We've redesigned them into short courses and added a lot more content as well. And we're also planning an additional intermediate level program for the developer pathway. So let's take a step back and have a look at the bigger picture of learning how to use Moodle within Moodle Academy. If we could represent the process of learning as a mountain then Moodle Academy's courses would be placed at the bottom along with the training that's offered by our partners. So Moodle Academy courses are self-paced and the partners courses add value by offering facilitation. So in the future we plan more programs. At the moment we're developing a program around assessment for example and we're also planning to expand the number of languages supported. So I'm going to hand over to Anna now who's going to speak to you about Moodle Academy certifications. Thank you Jessica. Thank you all of you for being here. So certifications allow users to organise, verify and so offer their learning experience in Moodle. The idea is to offer one certificate for each learning pathway. At the moment we have established and offered the Moodle Educator Certification and in future plans the development of equivalent programs for the administrator and developer pathways. Now as we are exploring the mountain picture from Jessica we would place the MEC at the top of the educators pathways. So if a user completes our two programs offered in the educator pathway and gets some teaching experience with Moodle at least here then this user will be ready to get the Moodle Educator Certification. Let's see the certification program closure. Well, what is the MEC? The MEC is an international certificate for teaching with Moodle and the competency framework that we generally use in the educators pathway and in the MEC is the European framework for the digital competence of educators. Perhaps you know it as Digicombe do. And this framework organises educators, professional pedagogy competencies as well as learners competencies into six areas. And MEC follows exactly the same structure and has six certification courses that lead to six badges and end up into one certificate. Please note that the MEC is offered exclusively by authorized Moodle certified service providers and at the moment is offered in nine different languages. English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, French, Catalan and German. And if you are interested about the MEC you can take more information from the Moodle.com slash MEC. Now in the future our plans is to develop a competency framework for Moodle administrators and Moodle developers. Having those we will be able to set up the Moodle administrator and the Moodle developers certifications. Now in Moodle Academy accessibility and inclusion are important elements for the learning of the future. So we try to keep academic courses simple and clear for people to get involved with and get value out of them. The training courses developed in Moodle Academy and the certification courses developed in the MEC side are both following the universal design for learning guidelines. That's why we follow a very simple and clearly layout without necessary graphics, videos that contain transcripts in online downloadable format. And also although the courses are self-paced and offered as such into the wide audience, we still use forums and trigger discussions so people can start engaging into the courses and set up their own self-regulated communities. Now finally we have clear course completion guidelines and auto-assisted pre and post course quizzes to help learners control their progress. Now following Moodle academy, Moodle Academy is working towards the easy translation of the course content. I'm not going to talk much about this thing. I just want to thank you, Andrew, who was our external collaborator and developer who helped us build this plug-in to easily translate the content of the courses and research in the following courses. So the future for us is to expand the translation even more and we want to coordinate and support train and coordinate the translators and group of translators to have all the courses of the academy in multiple languages. And of course we want to enhance accessibility by working on mobile app access. Now we're going to talk about the future of the community. Now we want to extend the future of the communities to involve community a lot. We already do this and we want people to come and to us and help us present webinars, work with us to create and facilitate sort online courses and you can also nominate yourself for other to contribute and you may suggest and vote on ideas of new webinars and courses. Actually, in our main page of the academy, you will find this icon says get involved and from there you will be led into a course where you can suggest topics and you can vote for topics already suggested and help us set up our curriculum. Now we have already several community contributions so far. We have four courses co-designed. We have 46 topics suggested and we have a lot of contributions, contribution nomination and of course, thankfully, we have a lot of translators already raised the hand to help us move on. Now the future for Moodle Academy is to involve the community even more. We want to change our team's role from instructional designers to coordinators of group of experts who want to serve their knowledge with wider audience as open educational resources. And of course, in conjunction with MoodleNet, our network to serve and curate open educational resources, we will collectively empower educators to improve our world. So, thank you and if you have any questions, please. Thank you very much, Anna and Jessica. Okay. As Richard comes up to prepare for the next presentation, we have time for just one question. If anyone has a burning question, but as you can see, we are the academy team. There's just one over there if you'd like to and you're welcome to ask us questions at any time. I saw something about payment system. Now they are free. The courses, what is the future of it? We didn't hear you well. So it was a question about the payment system. If they're free courses, why is there a payment system? You can purchase a certificate of completion for our programs, but the courses themselves are free and you receive a badge of completion for each course and program. So it's only if you require a certificate of completion, you can purchase those. How much? Oh, I think they're between 20 and 25 euros.