 of the January, sorry, of the 2020 decade. So very exciting time to think about the future. So I'm glad you were all able to join us today and we're gonna have a little bit of future thinking when we get a little bit further into the meeting. And I'm Una Daly, as you know, from the Community College Consortium for OER at the OpenEd Consortium. And I'm excited that you all could join us today and I invite you to share your information in the chat window with others, you know, where you're from, what college, anything else you wanna share there. Because I know that we're spread across the country and we don't get a chance to see each other all that often face to face. So we've got a great agenda today. So thank you so much for coming. We are gonna have a little time to do some sharing and reflection. And about, you know, 2019 and what we see coming up for 2020. And then we are going to talk a little bit about, oops, I'm sorry, about the OEG rebranding, Open Education Week. You can see I didn't update this. Our regional leaderships for open education and strategic planning, and then finishing off with our calendar for the spring. And I apologize, I didn't update our agenda. We have a special guest speaker who will be telling us a little bit about open education policy and other updates. And that's Nicole Allen. So we're really excited to have her as well. I think you know all these characters. There's Liz Yatta who does all of our support and is a wonderful outreach person for us. And we also have another wonderful guest speaker which is Paul Stacey, our executive director of the Open Education Global who's gonna talk about the rebranding and some of our goals for 2020 for Open Education Global. So, lots of great stuff. And here is the CCCOER Executive Council. And I'm just gonna mention my co-presidents which is Lisa Young and Sue Tash-Jean who make all of this possible. It really just do amazing work along with the rest of the team here. You can see our professional development, our November VP, the folks who work on the website with us, and those who work on strategic planning partnerships and special projects. And we always do wanna mention our emeritus folks down there at the bottom, Quill, James, Barbara and Preston who've worked with us in the past and continue to work with us in an advisory capacity. Any questions about that? All right, well, thank you for introducing yourself. We wanted to talk a little bit before we get into the main agenda. Oh, here's our members. So you can always see this map if you go to our website under about and click on members. You can see our members spread across the country and we're very excited to have a lot of you here today. We have some new members who just joined us this fall. And I wonder if any of them are on today and would like to say hello. So I'm gonna just call out the college names and if you're there, please turn on your mic and say something we have East Los Angeles College which of course is in California. We've got Pima Community College which is in Arizona in the Tucson area. Trinity Valley College which is in Texas. Chippewa Valley Technical College which is up in Wisconsin. Vince is here. Hi, everyone. Hi, Vince. Anything new on your open RN you wanna share? No, just that the first textbook which is a pharmacology text is actually being piloted this semester. And then we're opening up the review process through the rest of the spring. So making great progress. Exciting. If you have like a link for people if they wanna get involved in the peer review if you could put that in the chat window that would be super. And then we also have Des Moines Area Community College which is in Iowa and they joined us this summer. I don't know if Tom is on today but welcome to them. And we have Santa Cento College in Texas who we've worked with for a long time but they actually joined us this last year and we're really excited to have them join us. And finally Butler College in Kansas and they just joined us this last fall and we're very excited to have our second college in Kansas. Lots of good stuff happening there around open in Kansas. And I did also wanna mention that we have two folks today on online who are not from new colleges but they've taken over new positions with CCCOER because someone else left their college. And that's Amy Larson from Lansing Community College who is now taking over from Regina Gong who left last summer. So welcome Amy. And also, do you wanna say anything Amy? No, just hi. Great to have you today. And also Bruce Massis and I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly, Bruce. Bruce is from Columbus State Community College in Ohio and Rachel Dilly who many of you may have known. I certainly did and did wonderful work. She moved on to another position and Bruce has taken over for her. So welcome Bruce. All right, thanks Una. All right. Lisa, can I turn this one over to you to share with folks? Absolutely. Happy new year everybody. We are thrilled to have you all here and we thought that we would do a little activity with you all. So what we'd like to know is what about 2019 are you most thankful for as you reflect back on the past year and then as we look to the future of this new year that we're in and this new decade of the 2020s or the roaring 20s, what are your next steps for open in 2020? And so we've developed a padlet and you can go to that URL it's bit.lead slash ccc oer 2020. I believe it's case sensitive. So please make sure that the ccc oer are all capital. And when you get there, you will see two columns and in those two columns, you can click the plus sign and add comments and thoughts as to what you are most thankful for in 2019 and what your next steps are for 2020. And I see that some of you have already started adding to that. So fantastic, glad to have you all. Oh, it's in the chat box now too. So you can just click through to that link and we're getting some great comments in regard to what we're thankful for in 2019. Things like collaboration, dedicated practitioners, support in terms of looking back and looking to the future. Yeah, getting funding, continuing to support OER, publishing promotions. We're seeing a lot of great things in our padlet. You can just scroll right down and see a scaling previous efforts. You can scroll down and see all of the wonderful things people are contributing. I'm seeing thankfulness for continued employment, retirement, the dedicated faculty, our members here at CCCOER. And in terms of looking to the future, we've had some more posts. The webpage, big projects, work with specific departments on campus, helping others, some great things. So please continue to contribute to the padlet and we'll continue on with our program. Thanks, Lisa. And thanks, Rebel, for sharing that in the chat window as well. Collecting review standards for OER, submit here. And I know I saw that going around on the LibOER email list. So that's wonderful. Now I want to give a little planning update. And actually, since Rebel is here with us, and I'm so glad Rebel of course is from, she's from the Florida virtual campus from Falsi. And I always forget exactly what that acronym stands for, but it's for the Florida libraries. And Rebel, do you want to talk about the Open Ed 2020 planning meeting that you're holding this Friday? So we're just trying to get the ball started. I know there has been some discussions with some private parties in the back end. So this is just kind of a community meeting for anybody who had entered into the community forum that they wanted to be involved in the organizing process in any way. This is kind of like just a group. You can come together and you can let us know what part of organizing you wanted to contribute or be a part of. There is a group document that I created just to kind of track, because this is just kind of a brainstorming meeting to track anything that is said or wants to be said at that meeting and then pass forward to anybody who wants to continue efforts of organizing or being partners or leads for this. So I know there was a discussion in several areas we had said, oh, what's gonna be the next step? We just really didn't know. So this is kind of hopefully a way to get people together so that we can start having those next steps. Wonderful, thank you for sharing that. And I see somebody put that in the chat window as well. So yeah, thank you so much, Lisa, for putting all that information in the chat window about how to get involved there without meeting. And thank you, Rebel. And I can see a lot of other people are thankful that you're giving them the community forum to speak about this. And it is Friday at 2 p.m. Eastern. I think probably can read that on the slide, but just for folks who weren't aware of that earlier. And next up, we have Nicole Allen giving us some policy updates. And also the big update is around, she wanted to share about the Cengage McGraw Hill merger, which I'm not sure if we've talked about before at CCCOER, I mean, in one of our meetings and it's really a pretty important thing to be aware of and the possible implications of it. So Nicole, are you there? Yep, can you hear me? Yeah. Hello, everybody. Well, thanks so much for inviting me to come talk a little bit about some of the things that are happening at the national level in terms of policy and the publishers and the market. We're, Spark is such close allies with CCCOER and we're so supportive of this community and it's been a while since I had the chance to really connect with you all. So it's wonderful to be here. Thank you so much. So yeah, I wanted to just brief everybody on sort of where things are at with Cengage McGraw Hill merger. I think many of you may have seen the merger was announced in last May. I can turn on my camera if you can see me. And this is a merger between two very large companies the current college textbook market is dominated by three companies. There's Pearson who has about 40% of new sales and then the Cengage and McGraw Hill are a little bit over 20 each. So combined, they're gonna hold well over 40% of the market. And as we all know from basic economics and a free market system competition is really important but especially in the textbook market things don't really work the way that things do in a normal market because students are required to buy whatever materials they've been assigned. So publishers have the ability to set prices really without being concerned. And that's what caused the rapidly rising prices over the last year. And over the past three years or so prices have started to shift a little bit as students have really started to vote with their feet and use copies and rentals. And the publishers have really been forced to respond by shifting to digital. And Cengage and McGraw Hill, their case for the merger is very much saying that by combining they're gonna be able to offer digital materials faster and at lower prices. But Spark and virtually every other stakeholder group in education thinks that that is just wrong and false. So the merger is actually being opposed by everything from the Association of Public and Land-grade universities, the National Association of College Stores, representing college bookstores by student groups, by consumer groups. And Spark submitted a detailed 49 page filing to the Department of Justice that performed an antitrust analysis on the merger with respect to federal competition guidelines. And our major case was that... Well, you know, we talked about this. A merger between these two companies, especially with Cengage launching their unlimited program that's sort of an all-access, all-inclusive plan, it would likely push the market in a direction where basically institutions have the choice between two large subscriptions to catalogs. And that would basically destroy competition in the market and basically set us up for prices to rise really rapidly in the future. And we also made a case around the concerns about student data. So putting two companies in control of the vast majority of the market would also concentrate a lot of student data in the hands of just a few companies. And, you know, in the age of platform monopolies and tech giants are lots of questions about sort of the use of algorithms and the equity concerns around that and the privacy concerns about data breaches and how that can really have a negative impact on students throughout their lives. So where things stand right now with a merger is that it's under review by the US Department of Justice. And it has been under review for well over eight months. And, you know, the companies set the expectation that the merger would be approved in early 2020. At this point, that seems unlikely because the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand have also opened investigations into the merger. It's looking like the review is likely to take longer although the US antitrust review process is actually a little bit of a black box. So it's hard to know what's going on right now. And there are not a lot of levers that we can use to oppose it. So, you know, what we're doing is reaching out to allies in Congress to provide oversight to the Department of Justice talking to state attorney generals that could challenge the merger if it goes through and really just making sure that stakeholder groups are aware of the negative impact that this could have for students. So we'll see, you know, in the current antitrust environment, mergers do tend to get approved in some way or another. And if it happens, I think, you know, it is gonna change, remake the market. And I think that may be an opportunity for us to really push harder for OER. But if it's not approved, I think that will also cause some disruption in the market. And, you know, either way, I think open educational resources are gonna continue to be an important piece of how we get access to students. So the work that all of you do is so amazing and so important. So I just wanna wrap up by pointing out two other things that might be of interest on the policy front. The first is that Spark maintains a 50 state policy tracker where we keep an eye on state legislation pertaining to OER and we've also released a state policy playbook that provides policy recommendations. And those are up on our website. And also in related news, there are rumors right now that the executive branch of the federal level is considering policy that would make the results of federally funded scientific research available to the public immediately upon publication. And there's actually a letter, since there's not a lot you can do to South Merger, there is something you can do to help support this. There's a letter at OAintheUSA.com that you can sign to just show your support to the idea of making taxpayer funded research available to the public. And you can also go on Twitter with the hashtag OAintheUSA. And there's a big debate over whether OAintheUSA is a Bruce Springsteen song or a Miley Cyrus song. So you can weigh in on that. Oh, I see a comment in the chat. I know I'm over time, but maybe I'll just quickly mention. So at the end of last year, Congress approved $7 million to extend the Open Textbook pilot grant program. We do not expect to have any updates about when that funding is gonna become available for application for quite some time. The first step will likely be a call for public comments. And as soon as there's more information about that, we will definitely be coming to the community to make sure that everybody is equipped to be able to respond to that. I would look at a second half of 2020 for opportunities to apply, although that big caveat that anything could happen in the current political environment. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Nicole. That was great information. And thanks for the report that you mentioned about the federal grant still pending. Any other questions for Nicole while we have such a valuable resource here? Well, I just want to say all of you are awesome. And as I said before, we're such fans of the CCCOER community and sending the whole Spark team best wishes for the new year for you all. And unfortunately I have to hop off, but I'm just an email away if there's anything we can do to support you. Great. Yes, rock in the USA. I agree. All right. Thanks so much, Nicole. And come back again soon. Sure thing. Bye. All right. We'll continue without my camera. I can't find it anyway. All right. Paul, Paul Stacey, please share with us some information about the open education global rebranding. And I think you all know Paul. He's a frequent visitor. He's our Executive Director here at OE Global, of which CCCOER is one of the regional nodes. Thanks for that. And yeah, happy to be here. So exciting to hear all this great work going on and see all of you joining in on this meeting. So if Nicole's rocking in the USA, we're trying to rock globally, I guess, would be what I would say. Last year, I had completed a lot of interaction with people about the value proposition of our organization and through all of that, it became clear that one of the strongest things that we provide to the open education community is this perspective on open education globally. And in addition, the word consortium was a bit of a problematic word, especially when it needs to be translated into other languages. And sometimes it even has a negative connotation in some countries. So we decided to change our name to emphasize the biggest value that we provide, which is the global context. And so you can see our new URL and our new logo on that page. We actually have soft launched the website already. It's still a work in progress, but I just dropped the URL into chat if you wanna explore it, you're welcome to. It's a significantly different look and it tries to bring to the front all of the big initiatives that are the mainstay of the work that we do. So yes, a slightly enhanced identity, I guess I would call it, and a greater focus on emphasizing the global nature of our work. Another couple of things that I'll quickly mention, some of which are here on this slide. One is that we did our big open education global conference last year in Milano. And as you can see, this year it will be in Taiwan on the 20th to the 22nd of November. And I deliberately ensured that we were not overlapping with the US Thanksgiving this year. So I hope some of you, I know it can be a challenge to get funding to go to an international conference, but for those of you that can and those of you that have an interest in understanding the global landscape for open education, this is one of the go-to events. And I really hope you'll be able to join us. I'm also associated with our branding and identity. We have a new sort of member badge, I'll call it, that all members are invited to put on their website. And that's the OE Global member with the green checkwork that you see there on the screen. And one other thing I wanna mention is that this year, last year, we broadened our membership categories to include primary and secondary. And this year we definitely are working to try to expand and do more support and have more engagement with that sector. So I'll stop there. Questions are welcome. And I can give further updates too, if you want. Yeah, let's see. Paul, I think we had one more slide for you. I don't know if you- Sure, I can- But let's open it up for questions on the branding and so forth. Sure. And maybe if, so feel free to drop questions into chat. A few other comments I'll make is that if you go to that website, you'll see we now have a special projects page which highlights some of the other projects we take on an annual basis. And you'll see that we've worked to form a small network of organizations, sister organizations to help with UNESCO OER recommendation adoption. And we also are supporting open education for a better world this year. Actually with Nicole and others, last year we helped with the open education policy forum which took place in Warsaw. And that's work that is continuing and will be a highlighted set of sessions during open education week. Lots of stuff going on. Where, how can you download the badge? You know, I think you have the badge, don't you? Can they download it from the CCC OER website? I do have the badge, but it's on my hard disk. We can make that available. Great question, Judith. We will make that available to all of you so that you can download it. Yeah, thanks, Judith. Yeah, we'd love it that people do that. Thank you. Great. All right, I am. I gave you a little sneak preview there of the website and I think we're gonna switch. I think we're back in PowerPoint. I hope people are seeing PowerPoint. Sorry for that. And open education week is coming up. Paul, did you wanna mention anything about that or? Well, let's quickly say, I mean, as you can see, it's scheduled for March 2nd and 6th. There was a lot of fantastic stuff that took place there last year and many of you participated. Thank you and we certainly hope you'll participate again. There's also a number of resources that have now been made available regarding this year's open education week that you can download right off that website and use to help promote activities on your campus or virtually. So please feel free to help yourself to those. We've tried to design some materials that will be effective in terms of marketing and communication. And that's the URL that you can see at the bottom of the slide. Yeah, I don't know. Great. Do you wanna add anything in it? No, I mean, this is, yeah, open ed week is really an opportunity to raise awareness on your campus if you wanna use it that way and to plan activities around that. And then there's a lot of webinars that occur as well so that you can filter through those and share with your folks on your campus. And some people have actually gotten together a group during open ed week to come in and watch some of the webinars live together and then use them as kind of a discussion point. CCCOER has a couple of webinars. We'll talk about that later that we'll be doing that week, but Liz Yada, our support specialist will be putting together a little menu for each day focusing on community colleges. And we don't want you to limit yourself in any way, but just sometimes there's so much going on that it's nice to know, and so we focus on the community college and she'll send that out every day so that you can see what's happening there, but please do take part in some of the global activities as well. And maybe I'll just close to say that we're thrilled that the way this week, that week long timeframe has become kind of a yearly expected event every year that people use to plan these advocacy and awareness campaigns around. And in some cases used as sort of milestone dates by which certain things are to be completed so that they can be presented during that week. Last year, we had over 6,400 participants from 123 countries participating in that open education week, including 18 different languages. So it's become quite a large go-to event for amplify open education around the world, which is really fantastic. Great, thanks so much, Paul. And I did wanna, yeah, and yeah, Judith says they're gonna use the week to launch their new digital education webinar series. Wow, that's exciting. Glad to hear that, Judith. Barbara Olowski, I think might've had to take off, but she did have some exciting news to share. Oh yeah, Barbara, do you just wanna mention your library thing? I know you're- I just sent out the link in the chat here. We did a survey last year, sent out on the CCC OER listserv and also on the California Community College librarian listserv. We had 94 responses, two of them out of state and all the rest were in state. So we decided just to use the 92 in state and that represented 66 California Community Colleges. And it was questions that were on their work in OER, how much was part of their job or just what they did because it had to be done, what the needs were and so on. And we made a, we meaning, Michelson 20 million minds foundation, which funded the survey created a two page info flyer that is on OER Commons. I put the link in the chat just now and the one I sent out yesterday, I am so embarrassed and mortified that I forgot to put the Creative Commons logo on. We've proofed it so many times. And so we added it and the logo on a course and then uploaded it into OER Commons. So you can click on it and down, if you wanna download it and use it, use it from there. And it, we're using this as advocacy for helping to get more funds in for librarians for their work and their support in OER and professional development funds for librarians. So that's, that was the purpose of the survey to find out actually what needed to be done and what librarians were hoping they could, if they had money, what they could use it for. Wonderful. Thank you, Barbara. I'm sure there's other states that would find that valuable as well. And can I add one quick thing to that? Thank you. Also, we had put in a request and to the chancellor's office in California who put it forward to the governor's office and with a lot of behind the scenes work and help also with James Galapagrosclag, governor Newsom put in $10 million in his budget for next year for expansion of the ZCC degrees and certificates. And not only that, he gave a shout out in his press conference. The first time he brought up the community colleges under higher ed, the first thing he did was give a shout out to ZTC work. And we owe a lot of that thanks to Una and to James for their amazing leadership on that. Now, it's not signed yet. We have to wait, but the fact that the governor gave it a shout out means it would be harder for people to concentrate on that much. And in California with a huge budget, that's little. But in that budget, we put in several hundred thousand dollars that would be distributed to California community colleges earmarked for their librarians so that they could go to professional conferences in the US and for using it for if they wanted to take the Creative Commons Librarian course or another course or they wanted to develop their own community college conference that they would have the funds for the travel and for staying or if they wanted to go to whatever the new open ed 2020 is and so on. So we're really hoping that it stays in and we did a lot of advocacy and now we have to do even more to keep it in. And if anybody's from California wants to help us, I'll put my email address in and you can email me later because we need support from all around the state, not just Una and James and me. We need people from all around the state from different cities too. And we will give you the text for sending to your legislatures. So thank you. Thanks Barbara and Barbara's being very modest. She actually led this effort from the inception and so congratulations to her on the great results. All right, so we wanted to give you an update on the regional leadership for open education program that was launched last fall. And we had a face-to-face meeting with about 50 or 60 of you at open ed 2020 in Phoenix and we have four work groups and I'm gonna let Lisa because Lisa's been a leader in this area tell you a little bit about the projects that these four work groups are focusing on going forward. Lisa? Hello again. So with the regional leadership for open education, as Una just mentioned, we do have four different work groups. We met in those four work groups in October and those work groups have grown a bit which we're thrilled to have more membership but we are working on a number of goals that we established while we were meeting here in Phoenix and so the policy and strategy group is really looking at developing a bibliography of statewide OER policies and strategies and so Spark has the state policy playbook, there are a number of other resources and so we're looking at compiling those resources so when a state goes to or a group goes to start some kind of regional or state policy or wants to embark on that or grow it, what have you, they'll have these resources available to them. Additionally, we're working on developing a lexicon, a glossary so that we can all be speaking the same language so that if the senator from Arizona is speaking to the senator from Illinois, they will be speaking the same language instead of a number of different verbiage. With the stewardship group, which is being led by James Glapagrossglog, what they're really looking at is student advocacy, they're looking to expand and adapt the existing care framework and basically looking at privacy issues with data and all sorts of different pieces. We wanna be able to protect our students and make that care framework more actionable on the field of OER. Additionally, we're working on, they are working on taking the existing student bill of rights and making it more OER friendly and then also developing a bill of rights for practitioners that'll be explored later. We wanted to make sure that we can accomplish everything that we're moving forward with so that that was something that had floated up and was definitely something that wants to be looked into but we're really focusing on that student aspect first. In regard to professionalism, which is being led by Quill West, they are looking at developing a matrix of all of the different open roles in our profession. So we have OER librarians, we have OER coordinators and we have all sorts of different roles within our profession, but we're looking at developing that matrix of the different roles and then the competencies that relate to that role. So they'd like to end up having a working document that has these roles and demonstrates what we need for professional development and existing resources and how the profession of an OER practitioner and OER professional can be supported. And finally, the Sustainability Group being led by Amy Huffer is looking at the OER infrastructure. So they're looking at developing a virtual file cabinet of different templates for the higher ed infrastructure. So things that we often see people ask in the listserv but creating this as a solid resource. So things like existing documentation for OER job descriptions, tenure and promotion, things like student access policies and such. So the idea is to pull all of that together so that it's in one place so that we can access it and build upon it. And so basically what we're really looking at doing is looking at regional leadership and making sure that we have the infrastructure, the resources and support all pulled together so we can continue this work as a practice. Thank you, Lisa. And this is just amazing, this work that's going on. And I do wanna thank our leaders that Lisa mentioned, including Lisa, James Glappa Grossplag, Quill West and Amy Huffer. And in fact, I think Amy's online today. Amy, do you wanna say anything about the work you're doing? Hi, I'm here. I really like how Lisa expressed it. I don't think I could improve on it. Okay. Thank you so much for coming today. So we'll hear more about this during Open Ed Week. And I know many of you on this call are participating if you're not and you would like to, please feel free to reach out and contact me or Liz directly. And we're happy to connect you with those leaders. And so, yeah, so stay tuned on that. And I wanna mention there's a number of other groups that are doing regional leadership for open education. They may call it something different, but we are collaborating with them too. And so we don't plan to do any duplicate effort. But if you have concerns about that, please do feel free to contact me. But we are trying to stay connected with all of those groups because I think we're gonna be much more impactful if we work together, then we try to go off and do things on our own. So that's something we're real sensitive to. Alrighty. So we did wanna give you an update on the strategic planning that's been going on over the last six months. And I'm gonna turn this over to Su Tashji and who has been analyzing many of these trends for us which has been so helpful. Su? Yep. Hi everyone, happy new year. When I started on the executive council, back in June we started a strategic planning process that many of you have been involved in and we've had a variety of activities using the SOAR analysis. So back in June we had an initial meeting and developed a survey that many of you filled out. Then we analyzed the survey at the executive meeting. In September we shared some of the results with you and we had your vote on them. We shared them with the external stakeholders and the OEC staff at the open ed conference. If you attended the breakfast, we did a visioning activity. And then we followed it up with interviews with eight external stakeholders. So it's been a busy six months and we've gotten lots of feedback that we've shared with you and that we have available if you'd like to look more closely at it. But what we've done is narrowed it down. Who are you? Yeah, sorry. Oh okay. Okay, so we've narrowed it down to four possible aspirations or strategic directions. And what we'd like to do is invite you now to participate after I briefly introduce each one. Invite you to weigh in on which of the strategic directions you think is most important for us to focus on and which one resonates with you or would you be most interested in being involved in? So the first one would be a toolkit, developing a toolkit for members. This came up quite a few times to share a research toolkit, to share impact, measure impact, collect data around student success, around cost savings. The second one would be train the trainers program for professional development in different areas of open education. And let's see, so then the third one, fostering legislative relationships and working with government agencies. And I'm looking to see if there are any questions. A member mentoring network where you could request a mentor to help you with a project. And we would pair up different members to help you achieve your goals for the year. And then the last one is promoting open pedagogy as a tool for equity. And so one of the things that we thought about was offering badges for all of the above. So you'd have some sort of micro-credentialing or certificate to share if you participated in any of these programs. All right, so, Luna, are you gonna... So can you see the poll now? Yes, yep. So what we'd like you to do now is select your top two choices for future aspirations or directions. It looks like we can only select one. I was afraid of that. Yeah, that is the limitation of the polling device. All right, so submit your top choice. This is the second time we've used polling. We do need to play with this a little more. And we may end up sending this out as a survey to all of the members, because I know we only have about half our members online today, and we do wanna get feedback from all of them. And I'm gonna tell you, Sue, I'm not actually seeing any changes to the poll. Are other people seeing changes to it? No, I'm not. And I don't know if I have the poll. Yeah, I am. You're a sliver. Oh, great. It's interesting. I know last time you were as well, Liz, you saw all those changes. I don't know if it's a Mac versus PC thing. So are you able to share the results? I'm going to go ahead and end the poll. I think probably people have had a chance to enter their ideas. Liz, make sure you take a screenshot of it just in case we lose it. All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and end it. And let's see, whoops. I also moved ahead a slide here. Yeah, I don't actually see the results. So I'm wondering, Liz, how about if, can you share your screen and show people the results? I'm gonna go ahead and stop sharing here so that you can share. Oh, okay. I can see them now. You can see them now too. Oh, let's see. All right, so it looks like even though we all had one choice, it looks like the top two choices, exactly 35% each were the toolkit for members to measure and share impact and promoting open pedagogy as a tool for equity. Interesting. And then the member mentoring networks and the train the trainer programs came in behind. So that's great. Thank you so much for your feedback and we'll be sharing, obviously more information and getting the members involved as we start working on the projects. Great, thank you for that. Yeah, someone please share that with me. I don't know. It's for some reason my computer doesn't like polls. There was a few open questions that kind of have come up during this process and I think we probably will invite your input in on these. There's sort of bigger questions. Do you want to speak to those Sue, those bigger questions that have come up? Yeah, so these are questions that have come up over and over again about where K through 12 four year colleges and universities fit in with CCCOER and we're not going to ask for input today but if anyone will share these questions with you and if any of the questions resonate with you we invite you to contact us to talk more about them and to share your opinions about them because you've all been involved in this community. So what is, how does the Arlo effort fit into the strategic planning? Is would that be duplicating effort if we, they're working on policy and government relations? What is the connection with the global OEG efforts and how can we collaborate with other open-minded organizations or partner with them? So these are some of the questions that we still need to think about as we go forward. Thank you, Sue. I don't know if anyone has any immediate feedback to share. I will just say, Amy was pointing out some things in the chat window about the fact that some of these things already exist and absolutely that's true. So that was kind of what our bullet point there is at the end, would we like to collaborate with other organizations that are providing, say train the trainer, professional development or the toolkits around measuring student impact. And yes, that is the answer. We don't plan to compete with them. And so that's why we put the competition question mark. We really want to reach out. And that's actually why the strategic planning process which we thought was going to be like six months, we really see it now as being probably closer to a full year. And so that is work that we will be starting or we're already starting, but in January through probably May timeframe is reaching out to other organizations and seeing if they want to collaborate with us if there's something that we can bring to their efforts and vice versa. So we'll be in touch about that more and would love to invite you to participate because I know many of you, this is one of the networks you participate in and you also participate in these other organizations that are providing services around open that our members are interested in. So, all righty. And feel free to put stuff in the chat window. We might have a few minutes at the end here although we to have a broader discussion. Oh, okay, Paige, go ahead. Paige indicated she had a quick question on this. Do you have a microphone page? Yes, I do. I didn't know I could activate it. There it is. Can you hear me okay? Yeah. Okay, so as I'm kind of writing down all these other things and where it fits in with our group, there's something in the Midwest called the Midwest Higher Education Consortium, MEC. Does anybody else familiar with that? M-H-E-C. Yeah, we have been in touch with Jenny Parks. Yeah, Jenny Parks. So I didn't know, A, if there were similar consortiums in the East and the West or the South or however they divide out and then B, I know the MEC group is not just OER but they've got a very strong OER component and so you're trying to figure out kind of where that fits in with everything else. So if you're adding a list to this, I would think maybe consortiums like that might fit in. Thank you. Thank you, Paige. That's a really good point. You're here to talk and chat for sure. Yeah, and so, and we are, and that is something new for us. Jenny and Tanya Spillaboy, who's with Witchie, Witchie and WCET, Witchie being the Western Compact, they spoke at one of our webinars in June and we've been in touch with them and we plan to work more closely with them. They're doing amazing work. So thank you for sharing that. All right, I want to turn this over to my professional development team or our professional development team. Who would like to talk about the webinars? This is our spring calendar and we will post this probably, probably early next week, Liz, that's looking like, if we get lucky the end of the week, but we have some great webinars coming up and our first one will be in February. And Suzanne, are you on with us today? Suzanne, wake up. You know, if I saw Suzanne. Well, Suzanne has got a great, she's our moderator for this webinar and she's got a great set of folks speaking. She has Jenrin Wetzel, I believe, from Creative Commons who'll talk about attributing OER, particularly when it's from multiple resources, as we all know that gets quite complicated when you do remixing. And then she has several faculty authors who are using different platforms, both Libra text and press books that are going to talk about their experience. So I think this is actually a nice follow-on to the webinar that Amy from Open Oregon is holding January next week, right? Amy, or is it this week? I think it's tomorrow, actually. So Amy, if you've got that information, oh yeah, put the link in, thanks, Amy. I'm right there with you. Okay, super. So this is becoming a big interest for many of our members. So great synergy there. I'll talk a little bit about the Open Education Week. We're going to have the Regional Leadership for Open Education webinar. That'll be at our usual time, which is on Wednesday at noon that week, March 4th. And so each of our leaders will be presenting about the work that they're doing and inviting feedback on where they are to date. We also have two other webinars that week, they haven't been scheduled yet, so that we'll let you know as soon as possible. One will be on the California Student Toolkit, which was developed this last fall, and is going to be published soon. It's kind of in the editing process right now. And we're hoping to combine that webinar with the U.S. Pergs folks, Caitlin Vitez and Caitlin Nagel. I don't know if we've heard back from them yet, but we think that that's gonna be like a really a powerhouse webinar having both a number of students presenting the toolkit. And of course, Caitlin and Caitlin who do that amazing work nationally with students. And finally, we're gonna have a webinar led by Paula. Paula, I'm gonna screw up your last name, Minnishitz. Paula from the College of Southern Nevada proposed. We do one webinar for colleges who are new to OER. So she and Cindy Domeica are VP of new members and Lori Beth Larson from Central Lakes College. Hope I got that straight. In Minnesota is going to lead that webinar. So I think that'll be fun because we know that it's a real continuum for our members. Some of you have been doing this for a decade and some people are just in the first year or two. And sometimes it's hard for those people who are in the first year or two to really understand the level that other folks have gotten to. So we really wanna provide a forum around that. March 18th, we're gonna have our spring quarterly all members meeting. And that'll focus around some of the open ed global election process and other things that are happening in the summer. And we hope to make that a really collaborative meeting where everyone can share what their plans are for the summer. Let's see. Matthew, do you wanna talk a little bit about our April 8th? I'm not sure if Matthew's off. I think he is. We are going to do an open pedagogy webinar and we're still kind of working on that one but this is a great time to provide feedback to us if you've got ideas. Are you with us Matthew or did you have to take off? All right. So stay tuned for that. I do believe we're gonna have some of the folks from Montgomery College who are working on the open ped fellowship and we're hoping to get a faculty and student from their college in Maryland. But we're also looking for a few other participants. So if you've got some great examples at your college please reach out and let us know. We've got a great one in May on backwards design and curation and I'm checking to see if Nathan is here today. Well, I don't think he is. But so stay tuned for that one. That's also gonna be really interesting about what best practices for open course design. And they've got some amazing speakers. Sue, did you wanna share anything on that one? So we have a couple of experts on universal design for learning theory and accessibility and we have a couple of faculty members who have actually put the theory into practice in their courses and they're gonna talk about the difference that it's made for them when designing materials and OER in particular. Great, great. I think it's gonna be a great webinar. And in June, we're gonna have kind of a fun one. It's gonna be around sustainability which of course is a really important topic and we'll probably rely on some of you who have sustainability frameworks. And then there's gonna be a panel for part of that webinar about if I had to do it over again. And so I bet there's a lot of you who might wanna participate in that in some way either to be a speaker or to share things that you wish you'd known when you started out with open education. And finally, we'll have our usual summer quarterly all members meeting and that's looking like June 10th. Here's different ways to get involved if you haven't had an opportunity before. And we do wanna mention that we keep a conference list and I wanna thank Kelsey Smith at West Hills College who maintains that for us. And maybe someone can put that in the chat window but we try to keep all of the open regional and national conferences that focus on open education in that spreadsheet up on our website, it's under Get Involved. And if you find that there's something happening in your area that isn't and that conference isn't up there please let us know. You can add a comment or you can just email us and we're happy to put that in. And I think that's it. Did I miss anything Lisa or Sue? Looks good. I think you covered everything. Thank you everyone. Well, thank you. And we are at one o'clock or 4 p.m. if you're Eastern time but we'll still be here for a few minutes and if anyone wants to ask questions or bring anything else up please do that now.