 Great. Thank you everybody for joining us today for the special CCC OER open education week presentation, the advantages of using OER among the disadvantaged presented by Dr. Tanja Connerly. Thank you for joining us here today. Can you skip to the next slide, Liz? I'm just going to take a quick overview of the agenda. We are today we're just doing a CCC overview. We will have the advantages of using OER among the disadvantaged by Dr. Tanja Connerly. An overview of the EDI summer book club and upcoming CCC OER events and how to stay in the loop with CCC OER. So CCC OER is a community of practice for open education. We provide resources, support and opportunities for collaborators from learning, planning and implementing successful open educational programs at community and technical colleges. Thank you, Liz. OER Global is in its 11th year of hosting Open Education Week and it keeps growing each year with your help. You can contribute in so many ways. You can host an event, share open assets, engage in conversations on OER Connect, attend events and promote OER Week in your own network. Don't forget about the promotional toolkit and templates and advertising for OER Week activities on campus or digitally. So those are available on the website. And now I'm pleased to announce our guest speaker for the day. I'm pleased to announce Dr. Tanja Connerly is a sociology professor at San Hinto College in Houston, Texas. She created the Houston Area OER Consortium in June of 2017. This organization consists of Houston Galveston Area Colleges meeting to discuss the OER industry and how they can assist each college on reaching their OER goals. She is an open at conference board member. She is also the senior contributing author to open stacks introduction to sociology third edition and past co-chair of the EDI CCCOER committee. And currently a CCC advisory emeritus. She has presented numerous OER presentations and publications on topics pertaining to OER and EDI. I want to give a warm welcome to Tanja. We're so grateful to have you here presenting with us today. Thank you for joining us. Thank you Andrea and thank you Wade and thank you Liz for having me. I miss my family. Today, I am going to present a topic pertaining to the Disadvantaged Group. Can you guys see my slides? Okay, before I start. You're good? Okay, perfect. When I was working on my dissertation, I found an additional research that was pertaining to other minority groups. We tend to focus on just the minority group of race pertaining to open educational resources and how much money that we're saving via textbook to our minority group. But I think that we need to keep in mind that when OER was coined in 2002, that it was basically a organization and a community that was focused upon equity for all, not just for one group of people. And in 2020, we had a resurgered, a resurface, not we, the OER community, but our country did after the murder of George Floyd. It was like a social injustice. So everybody got on the bandwagon in reference to equality. But guys, we need to commend ourselves that we have always had this focus and reference to equity and equality. So today, what I would like to do is bring additional attention to other disadvantage or minority groups, such as women and the population over 40. Not ignoring racial inequalities at all. But again, I think that we need to be able to address other minority groups as well. With that in mind, I believe that we have to first define a topic before we literally talk about it. So when we talk about the disadvantage group, we're literally talking about and discussing people who have less of a chance of success due to different barriers. So therefore they're able, they're unable to achieve a successful life. This is a theorist by the name of Robert Merton. Robert Merton said that in our society that our goal is financial success. That's the reason why we have immigrants to come to the states that's the reason why we work as hard as we do and he said that there's two things that can basically obtain this financial success. And that's hard work and education. Unfortunately, this minority group that we're speaking of just to these minority group, there's many people that will fall in this disadvantage or minority groups that unfortunately they are unable to meet this success because of the barriers. The minority groups are basically going to be characterized or I should say the people who fall in this category, they meet these five characteristics. They receive unequal treatment and less power over their lives than anyone. They have distinguishable physical or cultural traits like their skin color may distinguish them apart from everyone or their language. They have involuntary membership that means that they're born into it they can't do anything about it. They have a high awareness of their subordination so that means a society makes them aware that they are insubordinate, and they have a high rate of in group marriage meaning they married within their group. Another character which is that's not listed by waggling and Harris that I found out during that I found during my research is that just because a person is a part of a minority group unfortunately does not have anything to do with size. Because our Latino and Hispanic population is the largest growing population that we have, but it has to do with who has the power, who has the power. With that being said, we are going to now address who are the disadvantage. We're going to look at the racial and ethnic minorities, we're going to discuss women and the population over the age of 40. During our presentation today, there will be questions that I will ask you to address in the chat, and Andrew is going to look at the chat and be able to respond to these questions and help me along the way. First of all, when we talk about race guys you need to know that race is a physical characteristic. So when we're talking about race we're looking at the African American people we're looking at our Asian population. We're looking at our native American population because race again is distinguished by physical characteristics. While we have ethnicity, on the other hand, is going to be looking at our Latino population, our Eric population, and what we call white ethnicity meaning like the Polish or Irish, our Jewish population. With that in mind, I would like for you just to put in the chat. Knowing what I've given you the information that I've given you pertaining to the disadvantage and the minority population. What are some acts during history that have happened that has contributed to making race a factor and making race. A minority or disadvantaged group. So if you just can put that in the chat for us and if you have any idea. That's just a little, just a little tidbit I thought that we could basically talk about and discuss. Andrew, let me know if you have any responses in reference to that. Okay, great. It looks like here we've got World War two internment camps. Very good. Very good. These are the things that we're looking for it and basically that's distinguishing race genocide we're looking at the native Americans here in the United States we're looking at the Muslims and the served we're looking at Holocaust. All of these are racial factors. Another disadvantage group that we are going to look at and address is is women. When we talk about women this is going to be something that's based upon our sex. Now at this time we're only going to address male and females. I know that we are now where we're addressing transgender and other and other sexual orientation but today we're just going to look at biological. And I know that we can have intersex as well so I don't want anyone to think that I'm ignoring any of our of our transgender population or anything because I'm not. But in reference to women being a part of the disadvantaged group. Well you may ask, when did when did all of this occur. Well, remember that our first society that was created was a hunter and gather society. And this society, men did the hunting women did the gathering, but believe it or not, they were equal, because their roles were defined, they were very important. So therefore there was no inequality during this time period. The inequality in our society basically came about doing our horticulture and in our gradient society. This is because our population literally started to grow. So the woman's role now was more in the home taking care of the children. You didn't see basically a resurgent of this until like the late 1800s came about, and you had the first feminist movement that came about. And then after that you had your World War two where women literally had to go back out into the workforce, and they were working during this time period and they were like we like, you know we like doing this we like being out of the house we like working. So, but the man had already established his role in society and society has already said that that is the dominant. That is the dominant force that is the dominant grace, and that is the dominant sex is going to be male. So that pretty much is how the transition came about in reference to women becoming minorities, because when society versus established again, men and women were equal. Well, I've already given you some tidbits and references historically what contribute to the sex factor being categorized women being categorized as a minority and disadvantaged group. But does anybody else have any other history and reference to why women and how women became a part of the minority population. Yes, we have quite a few entries in here. I just want to identify that way did note in here on the previous screen also Chinese Exclusion Act and other acts excluding immigrants from regions and countries. So that's definitely thank you way for appreciating that thank you so much. Yes, Andrew you have some more. Yes, overturning Roe v Wade, not really historical. That was mentioned. Yes, lower wages for women pregnancy issues in the workplace that men don't have with childcare. And then we have the equal pay act. Equal pay act is another act to the bona fide occupational qualifications same job same pay is going to coincide with that too. Right and then Liz mentioned with women's suffrage. The women's suffrage movement thank you Liz. And then another comment here from Wade exclusion of women from higher education opportunities. And we're going to get into that in just a second thank you way for that. Okay, so our last disadvantage group and guys I know that there are many many other minority or disadvantaged groups, but these are just two of these are just three of them that as as in our community again we always focus upon the minority groups and how we can help them in order to eliminate the barriers of textbook costs, but guys we have many other organization and minority groups that we need to focus on as well. And our last group of people that we're going to look at in our presentation is our population over the age of 40, someone already brought up our age discrimination act which basically makes it unlawful for a person to discriminate hiring of firing someone over the age of 40, and guys believe it or not, 20% of our educational populations is over the age of 40 and they're returning back to school. There are several reasons that they're returning back to school. They are returning back to school in order to find better employment because they need additional expertise they need to need a degree. They're returning back to the workforce because of promotion or a pay raise. And I was also reading an article today from inside higher ed that our retirees are literally coming out of retirement. And because it's because retirement age has increased and they're not really ready to retire either. And so they're finding themselves going back to school in order to, in order to obtain more knowledge. Back to exactly the previous questions that we talked about. We're just swapping in age. Is there some other acts that have happened historically in our society that has contributed to making age a factor of people being minority or disadvantaged group. Any comments pertaining to that one. Thank you for waiting for that I just want to acknowledge that Bridget had mentioned here in the chat and Tanzania various religions and tribal and national laws continue to treat women differently under law. For example, in inheritance. Thank you for bringing that up in the feminist movement you have multicultural feminist and multicultural feminist believe that if one woman is being oppressed all women around the world are being oppressed. And so, all of these we have to keep abreast of all of these, all of these occurrences. With that being said, our next section is going to cover the advantages that we are can provide to others and this disadvantage or minority group. But before we go to that slide. Please write in the chat. How can we are provided advantages to these minorities and disadvantaged groups in our society with the information that I've given you. Can you tell me how else can we are provided advantages to our minorities and disadvantaged group in our society. And I'm hoping that your answers will be what I'm going to utilize to discuss and reference to or advantages and disadvantages. Well, we're waiting for people to make a response Tanya there's also another note here from Jacqueline, the baby boom boomers not being hired because it's assumed that they don't know technology. Right, that is true for some but not all that is so true that is so true. And also they can get to for the price of one to because if they hire somebody younger they can train them. And in order to basically do what they need and then they they don't have to pay them as much to that was in the article as well. Thank you Jackie for that contribution. Well, we talked about the disadvantaged population and reference to the race and reference to women and the population over the age of 40. We already know the advantages that OER can bring about pertaining to education, but I also want us to highlight the advantages that OER can bring to employment as well. We already know education advantages that can help this that can help this minority and disadvantaged group. We already know that towards education. OER can save money through textbook costs as of today nearly $1 billion have been saved pertaining to textbook costs and reference to education guys we are one of the leading innovators and reference to online teaching and learning. The publisher the traditional publishers are really following our lead and reference to online teaching and online learning, especially with having your textbooks on the first day of class because everything is online, especially with the teaching and the different pedagogies. This has been us from start. So, keeping that in mind as being an innovator, we have to continue to have that mindset. I think that you know we are at a point in reference to education that we keep repeating the same thing in reference to, you know how much money we've saved in reference to textbook costs. But I think the pandemic has given us an indication that online learning and teaching is not going to go away it is just going to continue to grow. And in order for us to continue to expand OER, we have to continue to grow with it as well so that means that we have to continue to keep our innovative hat on. We have to partner with our instructional designers. We have to partner with continue to partner with our librarians. We have to continue to market it at every level starting at you know the president of the chancellor of our college on down. So, with that being said, in reference to the money saving part. If you can in your chat if you have any idea in reference to how much money. I'm curious to know today that your college or university have saved students using OER. If we would love to give you a shout out. If you can put that in your chat. Okay, we have a few comments here. One, first of all from Bridget. That says I'm curious to learn about how those cost savings numbers are calculated if anyone has a source and how they could share that. Kelsey from West Hills College, the more says 6.5 million since 2017. Awesome. Liz says we don't have any way to track how much money our members have saved students yet. I wish we, we had a way to track this. Liz, I have some ideas about that. Great. Wade. Oh, okay. Wade, you're just commenting back. Jacqueline 1.5 million since to 2022. Awesome. And, Andrew, do you want to share in reference to the calculation part, or you want to just in case other people would like to know would you like to get back in touch with her at a later time. I can get in contact at a later time that I want to take time with your presentation. I can stay. I'm happy to stay after two and answer questions. I just want to make sure that she has the information that she needs. Yes, definitely. Thank you so much, Andrew. I appreciate that. So we said one of the advantages that OER has provided is through the use of education through textbook costs, money savings and also our innovative techniques. The next advantage of me we need to discuss is employment. The US Department of Labor Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training is a grant training program that has that offers training in our workforce in order to assist with employment needs. You know, we've always focused upon the academic side and reference to when I say academic, I mean degree. Because our textbooks have always focused on that side, but we're missing a whole nother and a whole nother side of our society and I'm so glad to know that we are now focusing on this side as well because it's just important as academic certification and academic. But we're just providing what we need to for society, making it an equitable society. We just want to make sure that society has employable people. So with us providing academic textbooks as well as, as well as the workforce information is exactly what OER mission is. So skillscommon.org is a site where you can find information and trainable program information pertaining to, for example, information reference to construction, computer operations, healthcare, manufacturing. And this training is also very important to our disadvantaged population, especially women and our blue collar workers. So OER again is not only do we have academic work, but we also have workforce training development work. And again, with employment, that is our goal we are providing an equitable, giving the disadvantaged population, an opportunity to have an equitability in their, in their society. The last portion of my presentation is about sharing, and that's what we do in reference to the OER community, right. Our, our five hours is talks about that how we can, how we can basically take something revise it, you know, and, and do everything else we need to it in order to make sure that we share it. With that being said, we can share this through what I'm going to talk about the first part town and gown. When we're talking about sharing I want us to look at not only our community. I want us to look at our institutional outreach, as well as our government outreach. Our community and our institutional outreach is town and gown. I want us to move outside of our platform at this time, because when you are in a room where everybody knows exactly what you're talking about that means that it's time for you to move around. That means when I say move around that means it's time for you to share your knowledge with other people. It's time for us to go out in our community. I've just given you two examples in reference to how open educational resources, not only affects our academic platform, but it also affects our certification platform. Why can we not go out into our businesses our local businesses, and let them know about the materials that where we can provide internships with our colleges work on internships for in order to help them with their programs in order to let them know that when our students graduate either with a certification, or a degree, how we can help the community how we can help their jobs. It is time for us to again to reach another platform. We are able to utilize their there are our information in order to help them and in an exchange and exchange is just going to be a bartering system if we can help them utilize our free resources. We then can pledge more money in order to help us to pay for falconies members utilization utilization and creation of information, provide instructional resources. I'm sorry instructional designers additional funding in order to help with creating new resources, provide more professional development. And then down and get a town and gown basically focuses on how we can go out in its community and how our institution can basically provide these businesses. Additional employment and better employment. Another way that we can share is through our government when I say share with our government that means that guys we need to reach out to our local, as well as our national governments pertaining to open educational resources, and how we can help our employment needs as well as our educational needs. Sparks has an OER related policy tracking, which will keep your breath of current legislation sessions pertaining to our OER community. If you're not sure in reference to how to find out, you know, utilize that utilize their information in order to help you to to find out about legislative needs. Because again remember that if we share this information in reference to what OER is doing and what our future plans are. Again, that's the only way we can continue to grow. And that is, and that is what we have to do we have to get out of our grassroots mentality because we're not grassroots anymore. And I know that some people get offended when I say we're not grassroots because we're not. We're publishers, traditional publishers are competing against us. We're in a whole different arena. Okay, so we're not playing arena ball anymore. We're in the NFL and the NBA right now. Okay, so those of you who may be sports fans we're playing against the Lakers right now, and we're playing against Boston Celtics right now. I mean, this is exactly this is the arena that we're in right now. And when I talk about sharing, not only sharing on the outside, but guys look at your institution and if there's someone that you have not met or told about at your school about open educational resources. That means you need to walk up and say hello. My name is Tom's economy and I'm one of the OER representative and I heard that you're teaching statistics and open stacks has a new statistic book. Our name is Tom's economy open stacks has a new nursing program a nursing book that's coming out. And I know that you have a new BSN program in your college. I just want to email you some information if that's okay. Our traditional publishers, they have everyone they have separate they have book reps that come in knock on your door they have the publishers they have the editors they have the reviewers. We're all of them. So we have to change hats and we have to do that. By attending our by attending OER conferences, because you're not only networking and learning and sharing. And that's exactly what OER is about. So on our CCC OER website, we have different conferences that that you can attend or you can learn information, and also, you know, get involved. Do a presentation and reference to a different topic or something get get just get out of your box a little bit do a presentation on do research on on a new topic, or attend a conference in order so you can learn about different things because there's so there's so much that we haven't really tapped into. And with that being said, I'm going to end our presentation by giving you a challenge and I'm not, I don't mean to point my finger at you because I know it's rude, but what will you do when our OER community to help the disadvantage. That is what I'm challenging you for. And with that being said, I really want to thank you guys for your time today. And I'm hoping that you can join our open ed 23 conference March to seven through the ninth on Monday, we will start taking proposals for this conference. And our conference is entitled innovation and practice and guys, the reason that we selected you, we've all selected because it was about in our in our community is because we have to continue to grow. And again, we really introduced the innovation of open pedagogy to our traditional publishers. And they are literally following our bandwagon. And we want them to continue to follow us we don't ever want to get in a point that we are following them. So join us if you can again at our conference. Open educational resources conference 23 November the 7th through the night. Again, thank you for your time today and I have a couple of minutes for questions if anybody has any questions. Thank you so much Tanya that was thank you. That was amazing. Lots of great ideas there and as always lots of great quotes to I'll be quoting. Thank you. If you have any questions like feel free to unmute and just ask directly. Please don't hesitate. And you can always shoot me an email. Anytime. Right, I want to thank conjure today for her presentation. I appreciate the call to action that you that you presented to us is very thought provoking for me and it makes me think about whether I am, you know my initiative is addressing all of the disadvantage groups that you highlighted today. And whether or not I'm doing enough outreach in my area so thank you so much for that very thought provoking and I wish we had more time for a discussion. I would like to take just a couple of minutes to more of your time to share about our. Summer book club so on behalf of the EDI committee and Andrew Scott co VP and myself, I would like to invite you all to attend our summer book club. We recently announced the community selected title origin stories pathways to the open movement, which is a which is a retelling of the personal and professional experiences of six women of color who are leaders in in the open education movement. And so this is a free CC licensed text. There is a link there. The book club begins in June. And we have some links below on the slide. We do have an interest form that we invite you to submit either if you are interested in attending the book club we will be sure to contact you. We are also soliciting facilitators for the book club. And so if you might be interested in being a facilitator please just submit your your interest using the form it's not a commitment. We are having a facilitator training in May. And so you can learn more about the book club the EDI committee as well as the facilitator training by going to our EDI committee webpage. Next slide. So we have a couple of upcoming webinars to close out the year. April 12 we have the open education and community impact webinar, and on May 10, the transformative power of we are and ZTC pathways webinar so please be on a lookout for those webinars and add them to your calendar. Next slide. Tanya mentioned going to the CCC or your website. Looking for upcoming conference information. Please join the community email if you haven't already. And please go to see our EDI blog posts and student or our impact stories. Next slide. And please fill out a survey today to let us know what you thought about our presentation today. And on behalf of CCC OER. Andrea Scott, Tanya Connerly and first and foremost Liz Yatta. Thank you so much for attending our webinar today. Have a great rest of your open education week, and I hope you have a very relaxing weekend. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks everyone. Thank you. Thank you.