 Hello, my name is Rafael Espinoza, I'm from Costa Rica and I want to present virtual community of practice, COP, Experience for the Development of Open Educational Resources. This is a collaborative academic work and learning through community of practice. This is a strategy for articulation and collaboration and exchange between institutions, teachers or scholars who decide to associate and join effort experiences and knowledge to achieve the common goal that is to produce OER. This experience across 23 countries involve people from different cultural backgrounds, racial identities, language, locations and continents. Our epistemological framework, this is very important where we are producing knowledge construction and its social view of learning, social view of collaboration, understanding is socially constructed. This is a very important framework to support in order to work across cultures. I have to tell you that in this experience we had professors, scholars from America, from European countries, from Africa and we collaborate in this learning community for doing research and the main outcome was to produce a research that impact the different stakeholders in our countries. By the way, we were doing and I am doing to right now during COVID-19 something important that is working with families. As you can see and you can read, we have 23 different institutions. Can you imagine 23 working together in order to produce a really important research project concerning to knowing the engagement of the families in all these countries? Something important over here is that doing research online as a learning community. I believe that in order to produce knowledge and not only for publications, I believe that nowadays we can get together no matter where you are to produce books, to produce guidelines for curriculum development across culture, which is a really at value when we are working in our universities. Something important is the mentoring time. Why it is important? Because sometimes when we had an open source, a book, we pay attention to the outcome, to the book, but what is behind the production of that book, of that journal? This mentoring time across cultures is very at value and I really had to tell you that it's very interesting when you as a scholar from K through 12, from K to the higher education, you get involved even with your students. I believe that we can get impact in our academic communities. Concerning about tools, I have to tell you that, well, this is not that I am doing propaganda, but I have to tell you that in this case, we use open free sources as far as we can do that even though some universities, they had their own license and things like those. I had to tell you that it was open free because we had privilege. Sometimes some scholars, they don't have the source for working in communities of practice. We come up with this open source, with this open data article, survey data on the impact of COVID-19 on parental engagement across 23 countries. I had to tell you that it was very interesting to work in this thing to produce the different data to understand, for example, in my case, the Costa Rican parent engagement. Finally, over here, we had the data in brief that was the open access journal that we finally produced to the different communities to understand what's going on in those days concerning to parental engagement during COVID time, which is for me and for all the team very important. Methodological route. How can we do this? It is important that you go to the different international programs like international collaboration that you had in your universities, government agencies to find out with which countries or universities you had agreements. That is a very important keyword. Why? Because in that way, not only for accreditation purposes, it is very interesting how can you add value to your curriculum and even to work with your students to work internationally with faculty and with stakeholders in different topics. Believe me, it's not value and not only for accreditation purposes, just as a learning experience. The software and technology tools available, there are many, but I don't pay attention honestly sometimes to the technology. The most important is the human contact that we can have, the collaboration that we have, the interaction that is very important and also, as I said before, the mentoring process. I have to tell you that I'm very happy to be with you. Thank you so much for your attention. Welcome to Costa Rica. Welcome to contact me for any collaboration with international here in America, in Central America, South America, and in Latin America. I will be happy to help you to contact different faculties for exchange programs for working in this, because I believe that in these global times, it is important this kind of collaboration among scholars. This is my contact for all of you and I'm going to be happy to answer an email, to answer any question that you have, if you want to know more about that. Thank you very much.