 So without further ado, please go ahead. Sorry, I'm Dr. Shauna Brandl. I'm an associate professor of political science at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York, which is on the lands of the Canarsie people. I suspect my discipline and experience with open and my discipline are not unique. So please take this and run with it in your discipline, whatever that may be. So for the last several years, I've been really keen about open educational practices, right? Oh, we are, open pedagogy, open, open, open, open, open. But I talk about it all the time, like mostly because there are a lot of great people to talk to and learn from and listen to, like open educators, like the ones in this room that I've just presented, right? And at this conference. But I think, and I'm gonna kind of ask us to stop talking to our friends in open education or at least to stop only talking to our friends in open education. I wanna crack open my discipline and I hope that you might find this useful for yours as well. Open education has no marketing department, right? There are no publishers reps dropping by or emailing, no sales agents calling our homes helpfully at 9 a.m. the day after New Year's to tell us about new features that we absolutely have to have. No booths at the sponsors hall at our large national conferences and no friendly VP selling our provost on the best new software for just $29.99 for full-time enrolled student. Open education has none of these and that's one of my favorite things about open education. But that does mean that if we want people in our discipline to know about open education then it's kind of on us to tell them. I wanna crack open political science because political scientists don't know open very much. In a survey I ran in 2018, respondents were asked how familiar with OER they were and their responses were split evenly. One third had never heard of them before, one third had heard about them but never used them and one third had actually regularly used them, right? I wanna crack open my discipline because the textbooks are prohibitively expensive. I wanna improve the quality of teaching and learning in political science and getting more open educational practices in the political science is gonna make our field more accessible and equitable. Textbook costs limit who can take and do well in political science classes which is especially unfair when several states like Georgia and Texas have state laws mandating students take at least one government course. And political science is important with respect to everyone else's disciplines. In November of 2020, those of us in the US are keenly aware of the importance of having a working understand of national and state politics and government. Political science as a discipline has many problems and I think open educational practices might be able to help. Not least knowing the problems of my discipline is a lack of diversity. In 1980, the American Political Science Association or APSA advertised a roster of black women political scientists. The roster had 47 names. While the discipline has gotten more diverse since then it's still overwhelmingly white. As of February, 2020, only 4.8% of APSA's 13,000 members identify as black, Afro-Caribbean or African-American. If you haven't guessed already in this graphic of race and ethnicity that blue color is non-Hispanic white or Indo-European. And this lack of diversity among political scientists really impoverishes the science that we do, right? Zvokbel and Loken pointed out in their 2020 essay in foreign policy, the first academic international relations journal Foreign Affairs began its life as the Journal of Race Development. And I'll quote them their excellent piece. Since much paradigmatic work is dominated by white men and is guided by Eurocentrism women, non-white people and issues of race and racism are displaced in core syllabuses. In a study I did about representations of historically marginalized groups in American introduction to American government textbooks most textbooks did not devote much attention to historically marginalized groups. So across 13 books, words referring to historically marginalized groups came up rarely 0.84% of the words in three over 3.7 million words. So that's infrequent use. And that was across all of the textbooks analyzed OER and traditionally published. As a discipline, political science doesn't consistently consider these words essential to the study of American government. And I wanna encourage everyone to check out this openly available article. I'm gonna share these slides later today after I've had time to image, I'll text them but don't because it's like, it's such a great article. Look at the bibliography, right? Copy this. It's really adaptable to any other discipline. The methodology is not rocket science. And then there's some really great studies in political science. If you are a political scientist or if you know a political scientist there's some great studies in the bibliography. So check it out for those reasons. So lately I've been kind of delighted to find folks who were already chiseling away themselves in political science. And you may have heard this, we talk about norms a lot. And I really like Finn and Warren Sikings life cycle of a norm, right? It starts with norm emergence where an idea comes out and norm entrepreneurs go out and tell people and try and spread this idea. Then there's a norm cascade where it becomes sort of a tipping point and gets very common. And then finally norm internalization where it just becomes the thing. It's a norm now fully. So it's feeling like in political science we might be coming towards the culmination of norm emergence. This might just be me having an optimistic day as open education conferences tend to give me those happy warm feelings. But maybe even the beginning of a cascade of norm of openness in my discipline because there has been really interesting and the last one here, this SSRC book The Disinformation Age. This is a brand new scholarly book supported by the SSRC. It's important, it's topical. It's published by Cambridge University Press which is hugely exciting because that's a high profile publisher. This is a high profile funder. It's full of sort of a murderer's row of political communication scholars. It's a great book and it's available. They chose to publish it open, which is huge. There was just this month, a new textbook came out. David Uberg from Salt Lake City released attenuated democracy. It's so new, I haven't had a chance to read it yet but I'm really excited about it, sorry, not yet. There's a great and still we rise open pedagogy project which is, I wanna make sure I get the scholars names Beatty Hartnick, Kimmick and McMahon and the folks at APSA. So for any political scientists in the room, our, and I will say this, I don't have data on this but if you've ever met a political scientist, we are stodgy, we are stick in the mud, we don't adapt. It's not, we're not on the cutting edge of most things as a discipline but our organization, our scholarly organization APSA now has an open platform and this is a huge improvement over their previous syllabus bank which you had to be a paid up member. Now anyone can access APSA educate and even members like myself who have let their membership lapse because I'm not going to any conferences for them for a while can still contribute. You just need a free login, which is really interesting. I think that's a huge new development. So what am I doing and what you can do? So first, when I say you, we all, these are, I think open educational practices can be hugely effective at the individual level. I wanna say that a lot of these actions are based on what I've been able to do is based on my own position and positionality and privileges. And I wanna state that while I think open educational practices can accomplish a lot, the crises affecting higher ed, a lot of these problems are systemic. So individual actions and solutions can't fix everything and I know that and you know that we need to make sure everybody knows that but there is a collective action possibility. We always talk about collective action problems. I wanna talk about collective action potential. Again, that norm cascade may be happening. So talk to your departments, talk to your administration, talk to your government, whatever country you're in, whatever is specific to you and we wanna get support for this work because it needs to be open to everyone, not just people with security and tenure, not just people with various privileges. But with that being said, what can you do? You can use it, adapt and share existing OER and then tell your disciplinary friends about it. These conferences are great. I love these open education conferences. They fill my soul, but we have to publish elsewhere. Don't just publish an open access journal in open education journals. You need to publish in your disciplinary journals because that's what people in your discipline are still reading and that is the way that we communicate with each other. Present at disciplinary outlets about open things. Write or revise learning materials and share them openly, always keeping in mind accessibility needs to be there so everyone has access and then also keep in mind about access in terms of can you actually, can students or learners access those material? And try not to mediate. Of course, and if you're not already, try to educate yourself or get some education about open access and open because the scholarly publishing thing is a real racket and we don't really train ourselves. We don't train our graduate students in about that so I sort of wish that we could talk about that because I think there's a real way to let the open ecology flourish if we can connect the people doing research, get them to want to publish and share their research openly, then it's easier to teach from those great pieces and that's all the time I have. So thank you very much. Thank you, Shauna. And there's a great response to your presentation in the chat so I encourage you to take a look at that. Shauna, I know that you mentioned that you would be making your slides available later on today so I'm just going to share the link to the OE Connect page where I presume you will be sharing them so that folks can check it out once it's up there. So that is everything for this Lightning Talk session. I want to thank all of the presenters for this incredibly inspiring, incredibly energizing, jam-packed schedule. It's been great and to all of the participants for your questions and comments in the chat, I know that that chat has been flowing consistently through it.