We will leave space for the last panelists
to participate.
Através will be with us.
Travis gets virtually grilled.
And then there's a video of his presentation.
Good day, everyone.
My name is Rory McGrail.
I'm the Unit School
International Counsel for Distance Education
Chair in Open Education Resources
at Athabasca University in Canada.
As part of my duties,
I am involved in disseminating
information and supporting the development
of policies and other agendas, supporting
open educational resources
in the Global South, in
Canada and in our institution.
So I have the obligation as part of my chair network to do that.
I am participating in the Open Education Unit 20 Network,
and I also work with all is Global and
with Go Gen.
So I'm quite active in the Open Education resource community.
I'm a big supporter of the idea
of assembling courses, using
available open educational resources, and I believe that
there is too much of a emphasis
on creating open education resources rather than making maximum
use of the open educational resources that are presently available.
And they are.
There's a wide number of them now available
and we should be assembling courses with them
rather than creating our own new courses
and then giving them just giving them an open license.
We should only be doing the creation of courses when
it's necessary, when there is nothing else, when
it just isn't appropriate for your particular
needs at any specific time.
I'm a big supporter of
using the new generative
artificial intelligence like Tragedian and Bard
for the creation of open educational resources.
I think we should be looking at them very carefully.
Right now it's up in
the air what the licensing restrictions
are going to be on artificial intelligence.
And we do know that in many countries
you cannot put a copyright onto
content that's been created by a computer.
In some countries they do have that possibility.
But right now, I think that it's possible
for us to work using artificial intelligence
to create a body of open educational resources
for the benefit of our students and our teachers.
So I'm just
giving you a an idea of where I'm coming from
in the open education resource space at the moment.
And I'm also working on micro
credentials and
their role in supporting massive courses,
massive open online courses, and how we can use that to support
the UNESCO's goal as
DG for of education for all.
So that gives you some idea of my work
and I wish everyone success in this
online get together.
So goodbye everyone, and thank you very much for your attention.