Assam has given us a good question today about how do you address the risks associated with using online technology when you're starting to plan and design a course? Now for risks association with open technology, I guess that is open to interpretation. I've got a few ideas but. >> Well, I think the questions is really about open access technologies and absolutely, it's one of the risks. Because it's not just the risk associated with technology but often the lack of support associated with the technology. You don't necessarily have institutional support and that sort of thing, especially for your students. So I guess the first thing you would do, or I would do if I was going to use an open technology, whatever that may be, is actually use it myself. >> Mm-hm. >> First. Make sure I understand it. Make sure I actually know what its limitations are or what technical issues I actually might run into, whether it might be installing it or accessing it. Does it go down at certain times, are there particular buttons on it that just don't work, are there error messages? That sort of thing. So almost using it as the way I would expect my students to use it, first. Do a trial run with myself in using the exact sort of activity I expect my students to do to make sure I understand it. Because if there isn't any other technical support for students, they're going to come to me. >> To you. >> Essentially, yeah. >> Yeah. >> So I need to be prepared for the types of questions they would ask. I might even do up a little Q and A kind of technical troubleshooting issues that I might have run into and they might have run into. I mean it's tough, some open technologies have good forums and technical support online, >> They do. >> But not all of them. >> No, and that's what I was about to say. Often you don't have to take that burden on yourself, to be able to completely troubleshoot every aspect. But just we aware where you go and look for it. So you might, as you said, if someone is in trouble, one of your students, you could actually know where to go and look for that solution. And there are plenty of forums out there, there are plenty of video support, YouTube, all that kind of thing out there. Another danger though might be about the issues of privacy and- >> Yep. >> And what it’s exposing your students to. So, for example, asking your students to publish their projects on YouTube. >> Sure. >> If they don’t understand how to limit who can see that, then obviously, that's open to the world. And you need to understand. Are your students under age? Are they actually mentioning things they shouldn't mention? Have they got permission to show certain things on there that might breach copyright? There are a lot of different dangers like that that you might not think of necessarily. So I think that' an important angle to cover as well. >> Well, that's also an important part of helping your students develop >> Their own digital literacy and to protect their own digital tattoo as well. So if you want them- >> Digital tattoo? >> Yes, [LAUGH] digital tattoo. >> I have not heard that one. I've heard of digital footprint. >> Oh,no. >> Digital tattoos, okay. Yeah, we moved to tattoos because they stay with you forever. And your online presence, what you put online can stay with you forever as well which is why you want to be careful with what you actually post online. So it doesn't come back to bite you later on. And the same of your students when they want to go seek employment for example. >> And actually, sorry, on that topic, digressing a bit. I was actually listening to a radio program the other day, where they were talking to a lot of employees and they look, they actually look now. And their saying they won't hire people if they find things on social media etc., that put them in a bad light. So very important route the digital literacy and digital. >> Tattoo. >> Tattoo. >> There's actually a very good website about the digital tattoo as well and we'll provide the link to that as well which is great. I think it's from The University of British Columbia. >> I look forward to seeing that one. So I think those are the sorts of things the support, knowing the functions yourself. Knowing where the content is going to end up and for how long. And one of the other things might be- >> And mitigating those risks as well. You know ask your students to use a pseudo name for example, if they don't want to use their own real name. >> Also, how long will that piece of technology be there. Because many institutions have requirements that student data is kept for a period of years. And if it's in some other platform that might not be backed up or secure, you could get into trouble that way too. >> Yeah. >> So those were a few things but I believe that we also talked about some of these risks in the module talking about- >> Module two, Open and Close? >> Exactly. >> Yeah. >> So if you haven't looked already, that's a really good place to go and look and the activities have some really good scenarios that you can test your understanding of that.