 one. Hello everyone. If you're still coming in, we're recording now, so some of you may be trickling in a little bit late, but that's okay. So let's get started. Welcome to the Opened 20 community meeting for June. My name is Tiffany Reardon, and I and Emily Reardon are going to be running this month's meeting along with some comments and notes from other people on the steering committee. So yeah, let's move forward. Just a quick reminder, these are your steering committee members. We're all working really hard to make the conference happen. So just know us, I guess. I don't know. So another reminder, we are using Menti again for this meeting. So to collect feedback from you guys as we have for the previous meetings, please take a moment to select your favorite device and navigate to menti.com. There's also a mobile app, if you prefer that. When you're there, you want to enter the code on the screen here. It's 220415. So you may want to use one device to view the presentation and one to log in to Menti so that you can both watch and also contribute your thoughts and ideas. We are relying on this tool to collect your responses and we will share the results after the survey closes. And anyone who can't join us today for the call or needs to leave early, as I know that Jenrin has said she does have to log off a bit early. So anyone else who needs to log off early, you will be able to still contribute responses to Menti for the next few days. And Nicole and Hayley have both put the link also in the chat for you guys. Just to get us started here, as we have been, we want to know how you guys are doing. So if you will choose your character that represents you now or over the last month, we have the Chacha Chihuahua, the kinesthetic kitty, the perspicacious penguin, the unstoppable unicorn, the fatigued frog, the tenacious turtle, the dizzy doxin, and the stalwart starfish. And I can see we're starting to respond. And we have quite a few perspicacious penguins. And we've got some fatigued frogs and some stalwart starfishes. It's kind of fun. I like those answers. I like these questions. They're fun. So okay, you can move forward, Nicole. Sorry. And also just like every other meeting, we still want to know where you're joining us from to get an idea of where everyone's at. So if you will put in your U.S. state, Canadian province, or other country, and we should have a word cloud populating here in a moment. That looks like some people from Colorado, California, New York, Wisconsin. Let's see who's from other countries. What do we have? The new COVID epicenter. So there's that. Let's see. We've got someone from British Columbia. And oh gosh, it's hard to keep track because it keeps moving. But yeah, so we've got some people joining us from different areas. And it looks like there are, there's at least one person in the chat who is having trouble getting into mentee. So if someone wants to put those instructions into the chat again, maybe I know the links there. But yeah. Okay, so I am going that that was a good little starter for us. And it's good to know who all is here. So let's pass it off to Nicole for a planning process update. Wonderful. So thanks so much, Tiffany. And we're going to hear from a few people in the section. First up is Daniel Williamson from OpenStox. All right. Thank you so much. Hope everybody's doing well. So we are continuing to work on sharing up what this event will look like this year. Things we know for sure. The conference dates are confirmed for November 9th through 11th. So make sure those are in your planners and your calendars, your trapper keeper, if you have one. We are also moving forward full steam ahead with the online conference planning. Additionally, you know, we saw from the data last month that meetings that require travel are going to be difficult this year, either because of funding challenges or discomfort traveling or potentially regulations against traveling. So while we currently have a venue under contract with a hotel in Denver, we are talking with them on Monday to further understand our options, you know, no matter what if there is an in person event, this is going to look totally different than any open that we've ever had before. So we're exploring, you know, what the state regulations look like in Colorado, what their rules will look like, if there's an event capacity limits, how we would potentially enforce a six foot distancing, how we would provide for personal protective equipment like masks and gloves and hand sanitizer, all that type of stuff. And I was the person who said the new COVID epicenter and where I'm coming from because I don't know what the state of play looks like at your home states, but here in Houston and Texas, things aren't looking very great at the moment. And in fact, the governor today has rolled back a lot of the openings that were authorized just a month ago. So, you know, the cone of uncertainty is very wide. So in order to make the planning process as easy as possible, I hope that we can have a really concrete plan by our next meeting to say whether or not there's going to be an in person event at all. And until then, the planning process is going to be go forward focusing on the pieces that we know we can control, which is online attendance. So we're going to be making tons of progress there. And then hopefully next month, we will have a really solid plan and know all of our options with regard to the current venue. That's an in person venue and whether or not we can negotiate something there. So stay tuned. But for now, make sure those dates are in your in your calendars and be on the lookout for updates from us shortly. Thank you. Wonderful. Also want to give an opportunity for Spencer and MJ from Colorado and Maryland to share update Spencer. Thanks Nicole. Thanks, Daniel. I'm super excited to continue this momentum with this reimagining of open ed. So thank you all so much for it. I just am so excited every time I get on these calls. And I see how many participants there are. And it's just a testament to people's dedication and excitement and enthusiasm around open education. So very exciting to see here on the ground in Colorado. As Daniel mentioned, you know, we're also keeping a very close eye on the requirements from the state. Fortunately, our department is part of the governor's executive cabinet. And so we get those regular updates quite frequently, which we are sharing with Daniel and the rest of the planning team to help make informed decisions. And the latest from the governor's office is, you know, reminding folks that it remains critical for Colorado to keep taking steps to protect themselves. And our state success thus far has been due to the actions of personal responsibility of all Coloradans. And that will continue to be true as long as we continue to wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines. And we'll avoid seeing cases climb like in some neighboring states. Not to pick on anybody in neighboring states, but that's kind of the current status here in Colorado. Again, working closely with the team to help make informed decisions and happy to answer questions for folks who are curious about anything else going on in Colorado. M.J. Spencer spoken like a true state employee. Well done. We're in the same boat here. And obviously, if this was a normal year, we would already be starting to approach hotels and venues for Open Ed 2021. But we are not doing that right now, because quite frankly, we don't want to put ourselves in a position again for next year where we, you know, are having to renegotiate contracts and think about, you know, how are we going to make this work. So we will continue to monitor the situation, keep an eye on it, make sure that for 2021, if it's going to be in Maryland, that we're ready to pounce as soon as we think we've got an open road ahead. And I'll echo what Spencer said about just, you know, how great the planning work has been so far. And, you know, I often, in the academic innovation space, talk to folks who serve on groups like this about dealing with ambiguity and how difficult that can be. And kudos to all of you for hanging in there as we navigate these uncertain times. Thanks. Thanks M.J. And, you know, I think when our four organizations sort of got together and put forward the proposal for, you know, the first two years of the conference and its new form, this isn't sort of what we expected, but I just want to thank everybody who's been involved in the process thus far. And, you know, I think the conversations that were happening, that are happening are really important. And, you know, we're doing the best we can and we're going to gather in November no matter what it looks like. All right. So moving forward on the planning update. Just wanted to share an update on the volunteer front. I know that we have many new people joining this call. So welcome. Welcome to volunteers and planning team members who are on the call. As everybody knows, we had previously put out a call for volunteers. We were, you know, overwhelmed and excited and just really happy to see such a strong response with over 120 people signed up for that. The steering committee has spent a lot of time working through all of the, you know, the wonderful information that all of you shared and really putting a lot of thought and intention into how to structure a volunteer system for the conference that made sense. And ultimately, we ended up forming a set of planning teams, most of which are are nearly fully formed or completely fully formed. We'll be sharing out the full details of those teams probably next week. But they will be meeting over the next couple of weeks and really get to work on key parts of the conference planning process. And then there's a whole lot of volunteers that are signed on to help out with important projects that are going to be coming up, especially the proposal review process, which will kick off after the call for proposal opens and other efforts that are going to pop up as we move through the various stages of planning the conference in its various formats. So I do, you know, the only thing that is challenging about having 120 volunteers is just the amount of the amount of time it takes. So thank you to everybody for your patience through this process. And we're so excited to get to work. And if, you know, you haven't received a specific assignment yet, we will be in touch very soon. So yeah, we have a quick question. Oh, is there? Yes, is there a way to check if we have already completed the volunteer form? Yes. In fact, Haley will be putting into the chat or already did and it got buried a link to the form. Thank you. Wonderful. Thanks, Lee. Well, and Lee, why don't I hand it straight over to you to talk about the the planning team specifically. Okay. Thanks, Nicole. I'm going to just give a quick summary for these five teams. So the program team, they will develop and manage the process for constructing the conference program, including how to organize tracks, session types, and the proposal review process. The online conference team will be responsible for structuring a robust, engaging and accessible online conference, whether the conference is hybrid or fully online. Diversity, equity and inclusion will be a core consideration for all planning groups, so the DEI team will provide guidance, support and coordinate coordination of these efforts. The communications team will support development of the conference's social media presence, public identity, website and general keeping attendees and the committee informed. And then for the future of open ed team, they will focus specifically on the important process of developing long-term plans for community ownership of the conference. So those are the current teams. Nicole, did you have anything you'd like to add to that? Yeah. Thanks, Lee. Just noting that originally we had identified a couple of other teams to put together and are moving forward at these five for now and will be looking into forming additional teams as the conference's needs become clear. Just as a lot of things are up in the air right now, so basically stay tuned more to come. All right. So that covers the planning process update. I'm going to turn it over to Tiffany for a set of benchmark questions. Thanks, Nicole. Okay. So we want to get a feel for where we are at on some of the questions we actually asked at the last meeting, see how things are changing, getting worse or better, depending on how you look at it. So one, assuming public health conditions allow, how do you plan to attend open ed 20 on November 9th through 11th? We have in person in Denver, online or if you're just completely unsure, we want to see where you are at so that we can compare to last month's answers. So if you want to answer that. Okay. So we do have a lot of people planning on attending online, very few in person and some on shore. And I think this has actually changed significantly since last month. So that's good to know. Yeah. So last month we had a lot more on shores and it seems like some of those on shores may have moved to online now. And I think you're right, Jeff, that travel restrictions are starting to form. So but it's good to have this information that helps us make our decisions. So okay. And also for comparison, assuming public health conditions allow, give your best guest on the following statements, re attending open ed 20 in person. So very unlikely versus very likely if you want to do a sliding scale of one, I will have funding for travel. Two, I will be allowed to travel by your employer and three, I will be willing or able to travel personally. Okay. So it looks like some people will have funding. Fewer people will be allowed. And then we've got some people who are willing. But there every everything is kind of on the bottom half of the scale. So and it doesn't look like it changed too much from last month. It looks like we had more people who were willing and able last month and that has gone down. And so has the being allowed to travel a little bit. The funding seems to be fairly similar, though. So that is also all good to know and helps us make our decisions. So with those benchmark questions in place and our ability to make those comparisons, I am going to pass it off to Emily, our other meeting host, to talk about some program forming questions. Let's have a discussion around that. Emily. Thank you, Tiffany. Well, clearly the program is at the core of what open ed 20 is going to be. And so I'm really excited that we get to have this discussion. And just to clarify, right now, we're really focusing on online because of that uncertainty around the face to face elements. So as we have this discussion, keep online for sure in the front of your mind as you're helping answer these questions. And your responses are obviously going to help all the planning teams, but especially the program team as we move forward. And so just to recap some of the things that have come up in our prior meetings, multiple people have mentioned an interest in no keynotes. And this is an issue that we're going to come back. And we have a couple of questions around later in the presentation. So we're going to gather some more information around keynotes. Some other themes have been to avoid or clearly mark vendor presentations that we want robust representation from people of color and be welcoming to people of color. And we want to elevate voices that are on the margins, the importance of accessibility and making sure that people can see and hear and otherwise access the information shared at the conference, and the importance of inclusive networking and mentorship opportunities and how we do want to help newcomers feel welcome. Yes. So kind of, you know, so setting the stage with what some of our prior conversations have generated. Our question for you first is what do you personally want to learn at OpenEd20? And so this is going to allow you to enter a short answer. And in a few moments as the responses will start coming in, we're going to see them scrolling up our screen. But again, for you personally, what would you like to learn? So new ideas, what's happening for other people, trends, strategic planning, pedagogy, diverse voices and OER, how to improve learning outcomes, leading campus initiatives, focus on the K-12 landscape and connecting between higher ed and K-12, interested in policy ideas. Several people are interested in what other folks are working on, leveraging the impact of COVID. That's COVID-19 and open education, innovative approaches, creation platforms. What's next? Absolutely. Where does open education go from here? Trends of OER, both in the nation and the world, being strategic for our campus initiatives, long-term planning, global stories, focus on online, recognizing the shift to more online teaching right now, publishing, planning for larger OER projects, research, best practices, supporting inclusion and diversity, fair use, sustainability, promoting OER, effectiveness research. Again, we're seeing more with pedagogy, more with strategic planning and sustainability again. Nice. This is so rich and helpful for us as we think about themes, potential tracks, think about how we're going to be organizing content and making sure that people are going to be able to get what they want to out of this conference. Learning about exciting work that students, faculty and librarians are doing, even if they don't have institutional support. Absolutely. I think sustaining and building connections, feeling motivated, helping us become re-energized, right? So sharing and comparing current work. Yes, we will circle back around and we have some questions around keynotes to really get broad impact, broad input from a variety of voices on the topic of keynotes. We'll get to that in just a little bit. A broader view of the history of OER, what to do about inclusive access, practical applications, helping campuses who feel like maybe they're starting to stall, how to incorporate Black, Indigenous and people of color, international collaboration, open's role in dismantling structural racism, Z degrees, teaching and learning research with open slash OER, more with the anti-racism intersection, how to strengthen the student movement and OER work and sustainability via OER orgs. And what to do when we don't have institutional interest or support, libraries and how they're leveraging OER. We want to hear about successful research, peer review models, how to do more with OER without a stipend or grant program right now as funding is getting tight. As a grad student, I want to know more about what I can aspire to, funding models, again improving learning outcomes. Yes, there's fantastic ideas here and thank you all for participating and sharing with us. It looks like we've received voices from the global south, maybe 137 responses here, which is super exciting. How we can use research in the field and bring it back to our institutions to help build support for open ed. OER creation platforms, definitely we want to hear what other people are working on. We want to make OER reflective first voices. So I think we might be ready, even though this is so rich, we have another great question next, which is as we're ready, we're going to ask next, what do you want to share at the open ed conference? So the past question was, what did you want to learn? What are you coming to share and hoping to share at open ed 20? And I'm hearing in the chat the importance of making this meeting more international, appealing to historically black colleges and universities and Africa. And sadly, some people want to share a drink at the conference and we may be doing that virtually, as well as the virtual karaoke that we're looking forward to. Okay, so how we're moving toward more accessible OER on day one? Someone wants to share their sabbatical project, someone else positive student feedback with OER, someone else online education and OER. Emily, yeah. I'm so sorry to interrupt you. I'm going to stop sharing my screen for a minute because this question was set to single response. So I'm just going to fix that real quick and then I'll reshare the screen. So everybody who's on it, keep talking. Yes, so you know, we're doing our best right with this fantastic technology and recognizing that you may want to share multiple things at this conference. We're going to make it possible for you to share those multiple responses. Okay, if you refresh your device, if you're not able to enter additional things. Okay, so more great things sharing connections with others in the field. News about new projects. A sense of welcome and inspiration. Oh, state supported OER repository and evolution over the past seven years. Things learned from the Open Textbook Network librarian program. Developing and recently published OER textbooks from Hawaii. Other materials and student created content problems and then solving them using our conference time. Developing online professional development. Experimenting with online and digital systems and technology. Some people are too overwhelmed to think of sharing. And of course, that's great. We can also just come to absorb advocacy strategies, lessons learned about doing it at scale. Ideas for smaller universities. Research experiences and practices. Student success. K-12 connections. Creating faculty champions. OER grants and projects. Global collaboration among institutions. Info and results from the Canadian online education consortium. Materials and student created content. Projects with faculty. Having a student OER specialist program and student OER tool kits. Ideas to propel the movement into a more mainstream public dialogue. Thoughts on OER and open educational practice in K-12. We've got the karaoke coming through here again. Online professional development. Open pedagogy and universal design. Results of renewable assignments. New global focus and humanities teaching. Assessing open education student learning, equity, and open education statewide strategies. Insidious business practices of some big publishers. A syllabus project. Faculty-authored projects. Lessons learned about doing it at scale. How OER is enabling better learning and teaching. It's just so at the core. So at the core of what we're doing. Creating faculty champions. Thank you. So we have about 57 responses to this question. And again, recognizing that everyone needs to share. But we are really looking forward to the exchange of ideas. And not just ideas, but also energy and enthusiasm that can happen at this conference. And in the chat, Michael shared that I love the idea of workshopping issues. So perhaps this is a good time to move forward to our next question, which has little sliding bars. And what we're going to ask you next is what kind of conference session types should there be? And again, for this conversation, we're focusing on online. Definitely we're having an online component to this conference. So we have online content, like videos and blog posts. So you get to slide your slider from less important on the left to more important on the right. We also have lightning talks, approximately 10 minutes. And online content, as in asynchronous would be for the very top bar, is my understanding. The idea is that we certainly would have synchronous content as well. So lightning talks, people share very briefly and efficiently what they're doing. So that's the 10 minute slot. Presentations at 20 or 25 minutes allows for a more in depth discussion of the topic they're presenting about. And even more in depth would be standalone talks at more of a 30 to 45 minute time frame. So one question we're kind of asking is, how long do you think people need to communicate their projects? Do we need multiple lengths of time? We have panels in there where there would be multiple individuals participating in a panel discussion at probably somewhere between 45 and 60 minutes. There's the potential of having a more of a workshop or training that would come in from perhaps one to two hours. Is there interest in a pre-conference event? So sometimes the half day before the conference starts, there might be a pre-conference or multiple pre-conference sessions. And then an idea that had come up in an earlier call was the idea of having a maker space or a sprint for creating content or other sorts of get together and create together sorts of projects. Let's see. So where would something like uncomferencing slash discussion-oriented sessions go? And we will, if nothing else, our very last slide, you get to put more ideas in there. So don't hang on to that and give it to us again if you like. Is there an assumption that talks, panels, etc, would be recorded? And I think certainly we would definitely record some sessions and we haven't finalized whether there would be an expectation that everything needed to be recorded. Would it be up to the presenter? People could still opt in or out of being recorded. That, I mean, this hasn't been decided yet, but these are important issues. And the program committee is going to be meeting and helping us move forward towards getting the call for proposals out, which we want to happen in the next month or so. And we've got some excitement for the maker sprint. We could do all of these. That's right. We don't have to just focus on one, but we're soliciting your interest in these different options. And right now, we do have the most important being for the workshops and the trainings, perhaps a one to two hour time slot. And there's definitely interest in recording the presentations. So probably the default, considering the possibility of having a default for recording. And let's see. Yeah. So I'm glad we're getting excited about some of the ways we can connect with each other and share information. And then a question is pre-recording presentations or recording as they happen. There's certainly, you know, possibilities for both. I think the idea and of course, other folks on the steering committee are welcome to jump in and help clarify as well. Yeah. So someone comments that a recording's archive with captioning can be really helpful. And, you know, another, and American sign language interpretation and captions are important. Someone comments. Another thing that we don't have on here, but we have certainly talked about is how can we have time for people to socialize and connect maybe a little bit more informally, but after some sort of more formal presentations. And we have a couple of questions that hopefully will solicit some ideas related to that coming up as well. Yes, perhaps we can do an open cafe of some type to connect in brainstorm. So we definitely are going to continue soliciting some feedback on different topics here. And then another question is the plan for a schedule as intense as past open ads full days with multiple concurrent tracks every day. And certainly we want to have a lot of space for many people to share. So I imagine there's probably going to be concurrent tracks in some form. But again, this is not set in stone yet, maybe breakout rooms, virtual tools can be integrated for community buildings for community building ideas for virtual happy hour. Okay, fantastic. So let's I think some of some of these ideas in the chat too, we might be able to get up on a few of our next slides, but the very next upcoming slide is about the keynotes. So should open and have keynote sessions, we've heard voices actually on both sides. And so now you get to share your voice. If you're voting yes, keynotes, how do you think speakers should be selected? And then if you're voting no, what type of programming would you like to see instead? Okay, so we have some yeses, some interest in workshops and practical applications. Yes, selected by the community. No more presentations instead. Yes, it allows people to have a shared experience. Yes, keynotes but not as many as last year fresh ideas, noting that keynotes can be a draw. Again, highlighting the value of workshops and trainings. Some people are not fans. Maybe a keynote panel with diverse voices, but not a solo stage on the stage. So, obviously, we're going to crunch these results and use them as we decide how we're moving forward with these pieces. We have someone suggesting an interactive facilitated discussion, bringing in everyone's voices a bit like this. That way you have presentations elsewhere and synthesis here. So the importance of time for synthesis. Yes, actively recruit from underrepresented groups to speakers with completed projects and strong future plans. No, smaller workshops and sessions. No, unless you're elevating the work of early career folks. Speakers from outside the normal open ed crowd. Yes, but voices we haven't heard. No, more in-conference interactions. I have an opening session devoted to lightning talks. So kind of have a keynote slot that has lots of short talks. Or one keynote at the opening and one at the closing. Have a way for people to suggest keynote speakers and focus on getting people of color to help present. Maybe not a keynote but a general welcoming session and a closing session. Or we could have a keynote with a different emphasis on each day. Students. Yes, of centering voices of marginalized and underrepresented populations. Yes, because some topics lend themselves to the entire community. They could be selected by the program committee less key notes than last year. Or maybe a time limit of 30 minutes. Yes, and yes to bring all together. Someone writes they are not against key notes as long as they are selected by the community. They are relevant and they prioritize interaction with the audience. Sorry, someone else isn't interested. Selection based on tangible achievements and outcomes from OER implementation and impact. Otherwise, unconference. Pre-recorded keynote for those who want it. A final session where the community can come back together like this and get feedback and talk about what they liked the most and the least. Maybe a panel. Yeah, I like that. An improv keynote. Outside the box keynotes. They can be motivating. A student, perhaps a student panel closing keynote. Where do they want OER to go? Or we could have a one-year break from keynotes and reset our palate. We want people who would bring unique perspectives and challenge our day-to-day assumptions and thinking. Perhaps we need to redefine what keynote means. Right. Okay, so we have about 82 responses here. And I, you know, of course I apologize, I can't read them all, but this is really, really rich. So I appreciate everyone sharing. Yeah. Lots of excellent ideas here. Someone's interested in having community review as part of the selection process. Other people are really important, emphasizing the importance of conference interactions and applications. Okay. So we've had a few responses come in in the last few moments. So maybe we'll take a minute just to let them keep scrolling. I'm just taking a breath here. And I'm really excited to have all these ideas. And these results will be available to us afterwards so we can continue to go back and, you know, mine all these really excellent ideas. So we have a couple more ideas coming in and as we get ready to shift away from, yeah, oh, inspirational moment as an alternative to keynote. Yeah. Thank you. I like that too. We're going to shift now from this very specific idea of keynote to a broader question about theme. So should OpenEd20 have an overarching conference theme? Conference themes can be nice for helping provide some cohesion. But we also don't want to have something that's overly limiting. And so what are people's thoughts on having some sort of broad theme? Or I mean, we'll discuss what the theme would be actually in the next slide so you can tell me whether you want it to be broad or narrow on the next slide. But for right now, for this slide, should OpenEd20 have an overarching conference theme? Okay. So in early polling, many folks don't have a strong opinion. Slightly more yeses than nos in this moment. And in this moment about equal numbers of people saying yes and no opinion. And then half of those numbers saying no. So right now we're at about 12 saying no and 20 each for yes and no opinion. Great. Well, thank you. Let's move on to if we do have a theme, what would you like it to be? And so again, this is an excellent chance to brainstorm. And then to kind of reflect, do you want a broad theme? Are you feeling something more specific? What are you feeling? Online education. Hashtag intersectional. Equity and education. And someone who's a yes says they would be curious to hear why people said no. And that's something we can put on the last slide where we'll have more chance for feedback. So open together. Liberation. Equity and quality. Opening doors to OpenEd. COVID. Anti-racism. COVID and open. Equity and open. How OER builds flexibility. Recentering open time. Be more open. Equity and access. The care and open. Open ed map to sustainable development goal to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Reimagining open ed. Redefining open. Social justice. Anti-racism. A new open education to honor the new direction of this conference. Equity and open education. Now more than ever. One wants broad but with a definite focus or theme. How OER is impacting education during COVID. Durable OER for changing times. The rise of OER. Greece. EDI and online. Quality, quality, quality. Better open textbooks and resources for higher ed. Open by default. Social justice. Breaking down the detrimental legacies of education. Waces from the margins. Resilience of opening crisis. And back to that equity in education. Karaoke. And a very important element. I'm smiling imagining that as the overall theme. Reimagining. Hashtag community. Yes and. Oh we like the yes and. Social justice. Don't stop believing open ed 20. Fantastic. Do other folks here on the panel want to help read out. Read out some of these fantastic responses. I can help Emily. So. Let's see. We have new trends. I'm trying to remember which ones you've already said. So a theme might exclude potential presenters workshop facilitators. That's a good point to keep in mind. Social justice. Lots of social justice. Recentering open. I don't know what SDGs are. Yeah I don't either. Does someone want to expand on that in the comments? It's sustainable development goals. SDG four is education. Equitable education. Okay. Thank you. We've got reimagining community curriculum connections and open ed. The care. Something about moving out of silos. Lots of different theme options here anti racism definitely redefining open. Yes. I think. Good. I think we've we're you know we're this is really helpful again to have feedback related to the themes. We're going to just like switch gears again and our next question is what is most valuable to you about an in person event and again recognizing that we're having an online component but we're stepping back and reflecting on past in person events that we've attended and trying to highlight things that have been valuable to us from those and the time sorry you guys the time is going so after this we have just three more slides so we're going to do fine on time in case you're giving a little word because time flies as we're having fun. So networking is totally jumping out and then karaoke and connections. I love that karaoke is such a priority. Definitely community and collaboration learning so many you know there were different ways of saying it but ways of connecting with people. Yeah lots of connection in social there are a lot of different ways of saying basically talking to each other in person and connecting meaningfully I think. And then if we go to our next slide this is where we're going to try to bring these elements into an online environment in the chat. 80% of communication is through body language. So what ideas do you have for how we can replicate those valuable parts of in person events in an online environment? So right away breakout rooms and themed breakout rooms smaller breakout room sessions first three answers. Having social spaces, places to have threaded discussions, workshopping problems, meetups that are facilitated like shared eating and drinking time. Sorry Emily we have another set of technical difficulties that is not scrolling. And then something else in here in the chat is end of session chat sessions always open social rooms for casual conversations for lunch virtual lunch or dine arounds. Yeah end of session chat sessions is interesting almost like a debrief time. Absolutely because that's when we have a lots of ideas floating around in our heads that's a rich time that we would normally be talking to each other. We need virtual fruit water maybe we'll have to have some recipes for quick things we can whip up in our locations. Look we're scrolling. Yay okay so we've got pre-conference introductions of attendees, facilitated meetups, informal persistent virtual meetup sessions. So so much with these social spaces and breakouts and we need good facilitation for the online karaoke a robust back channel. Unconferencing brainstorming sessions rather than presentations so really having a chance for people's voices to get in there. Make links to all sessions available to all so can move to a different presentation if you want. Twitter hashtag oh small workshop sessions with a facilitator but no set agenda trivia social bring your own drink sessions could there be the possibility of local meetups planned downtime in the in-person schedule so that folks can connect debrief time a mentoring program for new attendees and seasoned experts. Connection makers how do you get invited or feel comfortable going to a breakout? So this is something for our online planning team to really take a close look at these ideas and help us figure out how we can integrate the best of technology and our human needs and make sure we're getting those met. Okay so two last slides open ed is scheduled for November 9th through 11th should we consider changing the length of the online program and this was response to some steering committee members who mentioned some online conferences are spreading out over more time so they can be a little bit less packed so we're getting feedback on this and so far with about 20 people responding we've got a lot of folks who are interested in making it longer and more spread out. We do have maybe about a quarter of respondents saying keep it at three days and only two out of about 50 only three out of about 50 respondents saying make it shorter and more intensive. I mean there's trade-offs right trade-offs so um absolutely so the open textbook network just ran something over two weeks for example and some people found that exhausting zoom fatigue you know okay not too long fantastic let's move on to our very final question um which is really it's just a slide saying that's it for today but this is the place for other ideas or feedback that you would like to share with us and again we appreciate all your responses in our chat so we're also going to be reviewing this zoom chat as well as comments that people have shared with us through Mentimeter and again this is our final slide so we can enjoy our last three minutes together. Yeah and Emily just to note even even though we'll end on time this question will leave this running so if you're still filling out your responses you can take extra time. Excellent thanks Nicole. Okay so let's see definitely a k-12 chat track um all ideas need to be accepted and not condemned some unstructured time un-conference we want to eliminate contempt um orientation and networking global participation if only online make the price affordable as a newcomer to open ed i'd love to be paired up with someone who knows the ropes a little better skill share and project matching mentoring should be available for new recruits so that's a theme open conference cookbook maybe a google doc for people to suggest panels and share topics people want recordings of sessions promoting connections for groups like k-12 non-profit orgs districts higher ed a community college track would be terrific keep time zones in mind mentoring for mid-career folks unstructured time un-conference a workshop for student advocates i appreciate that some people at least one person said this was the best and most or for running the best and most organized zoom sessions they've attended since quarantine began that thank you Nicole for that um yes again thank you for all of your ideas for your time for your participation for your energy for your interests yes we know some folks um are going to need to go we're pretty much at time but just again thank you from all of us and we're going to continue working and building the open ed 20 and i'm glad we're all working together