 Hello everyone. I'm Paul Stacey. I'm the Executive Director of Open Education Global and it's my great delight to welcome you to the 10th anniversary celebration of the Open Education Awards. I've got my tux on, some celebratory bones. And I'm joined today by a number of people who are both behind the scenes and here on the stage. This is the 10th anniversary celebration. We do want to celebrate this year's award winners and award winners from the past 10 years. So to get things underway, I will now turn it over to my co-host of the President of the Open Education Global Board of Directors, Lena Patterson. Over to you, Lena. Hello, Paul. Thank you so much. I know I feel like we should, you know, have I should be interviewing you or something like that. My name is Lena Patterson. I am the President of the OEG Board and it is my absolute pleasure to be here with you today to help celebrate all of the incredible achievements of the individuals that have been recognized in the Open Education Awards for excellence. So let's get started. So we're going to start off with the open asset award winners. So these are individuals and projects that have been recognized for what they produce, open assets that they produce and use tangible goods with educational purpose and value. And so there are four categories of open asset award winners and they are best OER, best open curation and repository, open reuse, remix, and adaptation, and open infrastructure. So we're ready to announce the award winners and the 2021 open asset award winners are for the open infrastructure award winners. We've got open ETC, Wiki Fundy, OERF Digital Learning Ecosystem, and those are the incredible open infrastructure award winners. The open reuse, remix, adaptation award winners are, oh, we're going to go back. It wasn't done. Open Learn, Kit Daria Ryubin, and 25 years of EdTech, the serialized audio version. Congratulations to all of the 2021 open asset award winners. You've done incredible work. Next over to the other categories of the 2021 open asset awards, we've got the open curation repository award winners. So these are the open Ed collection of Geoscience outreach OERs and more on TES as well as the Observatory of the Institute for the Future of Education. Congratulations to the open curation repository award winners. And now to our final category of the open assets section of the awards, the best OER winners. So these are best OER, the open RN nursing skills textbook, and the open RN nursing fundamentals textbook. So nursing taken at home in the best OER winners category. Next we have the open practices and resilience award winners. Open practices are collective behaviors and techniques that open up access to educational opportunities. So these practices promote and support the use of open educational resources, technologies, and social networks to facilitate collaborative and flexible teaching and learning. And there are five categories of the open practice awards. And they are recognizing contributions in open pedagogy, open collaboration, open research, open policy. And oh, the screen has moved and I can't see the last one. Something funny, open innovation. Okay, I did not have those memorized. Thank you so much. We will now share the award winners in those five categories. So the 2021 open practices award winners are the open resilience award, and this is open learns response to the pandemic. Congratulations. The open pedagogy award, open education challenge series, the open collaboration award, red ferros and tide project. And my little screen is covering again the words open policy project open policies for learning and teaching, the open research award textbook broke, and open innovation award called together. So congratulations to all the 2021 open practice award winners. This is very nice. There's lots of different versions of this screen. Okay, oh, I love this one. Okay. So this is the UNESCO OER implementation award. And this award was given to the first community OE award to all the presenters in OE global 2021. And this is really something innovative and credible that OE global did again, the first community OER OE award. And all of the individuals that presented in the OE global 2021 conference were provided with this recognition for their exemplary leadership in advancing the UNESCO OER recommendation in their own practice. And you can I'm sure you can read all of those names. There are many of them. But everyone who was provided with that award, it was it was such an honor to receive it and such a joy to be part of a collective experience, like winning an award. So congratulations again to all the UNESCO OER implementation award winners. Oh, yes. Okay, individual award winners. This is this is this is a great one. So there are five different individual award winners and individual awards are special merit awards presented to individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to advance openness and education. And there are some incredible past individual award winners. And again, they are in five categories. The leadership award, which recognizes individuals that have made a significant impact, significant leadership, but also longstanding involvement in open education. The educator award. So this is for an innovative teacher published that has published or used a significant body of OER over a sustained period. It's also someone who is recognized among their peers. The support specialist award, an individual that is actively engaged in the use and promotion of OER and open practices. The emerging leader award. This is an exciting one and enthusiastic individual displaying promising leadership qualities in the open education space. And finally, last but not least, we've had some incredible student award winners. So these are students who have advocated for or benefited academically from the use of OER and who have a promising career as well in open education. So without further ado, we will announce the individual award winners. Here they are. What a good looking group. So the leadership award goes to Melissa Hayton. The educator award goes to Orna Farrell. The emerging leader award goes to Gino Fransman. The support specialist award goes to Verner Vesterman. And the student award goes to Hannah Rothman. Congratulations again to all of the individual award winners. You are incredible and we can't wait to see what you do next. Oh, this is another one. This is just getting better and better. So I want everybody to join me taking out your phones or your pulling up Twitter on your on your computer and send congratulations to our friend and our colleague Willem van Valkenberg. Willem has been involved with open education global since I think it was 2008. Paul and I were reflecting on it yesterday. The impact of his work in open education and his leadership for open education global has just been incredibly huge. It's hard to even begin to measure or understand his commitment and his dedication to OE Global. And I want you all, he wasn't able to make it here with us. He's in Boston today meeting with some important people. So I want us all to send him a tweet and issue out our congratulations to him. So again, this is the president's award. It is a big honor in the OE Global community and it could not be going to a more deserving recipient. So thank you, Willem. We really appreciate you. Now I think if I'm if I'm not wrong, this is an opportunity to hear from some spotlight projects. Right, Paul? Yes, that's right, Lena. Yes. That was well done. Nicely done. And yes, maybe before we hear from the from some of the award winners, perhaps we could all just like applaud this year's award winners. And it was super great to see the breadth and depth of all the fantastic work being done in open education. And the president's award for Willem is one given by the board of directors. And it's a surprise Willem didn't know. So all the tweets you're sending him, it's going to be like, what happened? That's good. At this segment of the award ceremony, we wanted to actually now invite some of this year's award winners to just come on stage and share with you all what winning an award has been like for them. So it looked like from my from what I saw there a little peek that Wayne McIntosh is up first. Oh, welcome, Wayne. Kia ora, everyone. It's great to be here a bit early in the morning for me, but wonderful to join you. And at the onset, happy anniversary, OV Global, you know, on the 10th anniversary of these awards, you know, notwithstanding the incredible progress we've made in open education in all corners of the world, we are still very much operating on the peripheries. OVR is far from mainstream. And, you know, for folk that are working in the trenches, you know, moving the open education agenda forward. These awards are really very, very important for the community. So just a big shout out to OV Global, you know, for instituting these awards and recognizing, you know, colleagues from around the world, you know, as, as, you know, as we move forward into a post pandemic world, I think it's important just to reflect that there is no form of education delivery that is more cost effective, more scalable, or more sustainable than OVR. And the work that we do at the OVR Foundation, we're a small nonprofit organization, you know, focused primarily on widening access to educational opportunity. And in many parts of the developing world, we know that the majority of learners will still not have the privilege of a tertiary education, either because they cannot afford access, or that they are not enough seats in their home country. And this is part of the challenge or the problem that we are working on is using open, a radically open approach to widening access. And so if you think about it, if you assemble open online courses based entirely on OVR, you can provide education at no cost. And for a small cost recovery fee, it is possible to provide access to education. And this is kind of what we do. Being a radically open organization, everything we do is entirely based on free and open source software. And that is important for developing world context, because if we are true to our philosophy of sharing, it's important that we also share the technologies that enable people to do, you know, to deliver. So once again, I especially got up earlier this morning to get up and say thank you to OE Global for the great work that you're doing in this space. And thanks for the opportunity to join your celebrations. Oh, that's so nice, Wayne. Thank you. And you've been an inspiration for all of us, I think, in the field. So great work. And thank you for those remarks. Multi-award winner, Wayne Atkinson. Yeah, good. That's great, Paul. Okay, back room people. I'm not sure who's up next. Can I just say, just listening to Wayne, I really think, you know, I just want to say one thing about kind of what these awards, how these awards contribute to people's experiences, you know, they talk about recognition for themselves, their institutions or their regions, awareness, credibility, sustaining momentum or, you know, the boost they need to even start a new ambitious project. So really excited to hear from a couple more of them about how the awards have have changed or will change their perspective and their opportunities. That's wonderfully said. And up next is Judith Sabesta. Judith, welcome. Paul, thank you so much. And thank you, Lina. I appreciate it. And I'd like to say to everybody, Hola, Bonjour, Konichiwa, Guten Tag, Ahoy, Nihao, Madhava and Howdy. Congratulations to all my fellow award winners. We at Digitex are so incredibly honored to receive an OE Excellence Award in the category of open reuse, remix and adaptation for our training, Texas Learn OER. TLO is a set of 10 openly licensed modules that serve as an intro to open education for faculty, administrators and staff. We share this award with Keri Gitz at Austin Community College here in Austin, Texas, where we are based. Keri worked with us to adapt ACC Learn OER, her capstone project for the 2018 Spark Open Education Leadership Program. You know, to me, this recognition for Texas Learn OER is affirmation of the impact that open licenses can have on education because it's licensed CC by. TLO can be adapted to suit any local context globally. And 240 individuals have completed the training since it launched in August of 2020. It's also, I think, a testimony to this amazingly supportive open education community where we live, where we're constantly building and sharing each other's work to increase access to knowledge. For this project, I think there is a direct line from the Spark Leadership Program to a training, ACC Learn OER, that was developed for one single college, to an adaptation of that training, Texas Learn OER, that's been reused, revised, remixed and redistributed in at least 10 states in the US and one country in Africa, to this award. It's our hope that this award helps extend the impact of TLO even further. And we've already seen a spike in traffic to the training because of it. And also, the timing of this award couldn't be more perfect because we recently launched an enhanced version of TLO with an increased focus on OER and equity, updated OER initiatives, activities and legislation in Texas. And we have added interactive concept reviews at the end of the modules, among other enhancements. So please check it out at bit.ly forward slash digitex learn OER. And once again, I just want to thank the open, I want to thank Open Education Global for this incredible honor. We at Digitex are so proud to be a part of this amazing community as am I. Paul, Lena, thank you so much. Congratulations, Judith. Congratulations, Judith. Thank you. Thank you. And it's a wonderful news to hear about the award is attracting such attention and interest. And also just the history of how it really is a model for how remix and reuse can happen. So well done. Absolutely. And a lot of these award winners talk about how the award as well is a reaffirmation. And Judith used the word affirmation, but for some people it's a reaffirmation of their values and purpose as well, right? You know, just logging away like Wayne said in the trenches and to get recognized for all of that hard work is really meaningful. So it's so nice to hear from people. Who are we talking to next? Gino's up next. Hello, everyone. Well, thanks for having me. And Paul, you look amazing. Well done on the outfit choice. Okay, so I first want to say thanks for the opportunity to be here. It's humbling and it's exciting. And yes, it does open up avenues for advocacy and for sharing more about Open. So just some of my journey in Open and I'll get to what we're going to do next at Mandela University. I first got involved in Open or more accurately in opening up while working at the University of the Western Cape from 2005 or the abouts. And I was trying to get students to engage in the creation of content that could be shared in the wider communities, of course, at no cost. It was a solid start. And then I relocated to Johannesburg and I started working at the University of South Africa. Here I joined the global open education resources graduate network or GoGN under the auspices of Professor Fred Mulder and RIP to him. It was in this cohort of GoGN that I found a real and meaningful space to apply my ambitions for advocacy in Open. Coming to Nelson Mandela University a few years later, I've energetically pursued the aim of opening up as a means to raise awareness of Open and OER but also really as a social justice pursuit in a country where the majority of our students are funded by the state. So Open textbooks are real and meaningful endeavor here in South Africa. And I think globally advocacy at Mandela University quickly became a case of rinse and repeat and repeat and rinse because we kept getting stuck on raising awareness. What does Open mean? So I started the Open Education Influencers project in order to support student-driven advocacy year and wider across the globe way possible. After a couple of years of empowering the first cohorts, we got funding via the Siapum Mandela program which is supported by the Kresge Foundation. Thank you. Thank you. You have changed our trajectory. We collaborated through lockdown 2020 and the Becoming an Open Education Influencer or BOEI online empowerment course was born. Shout out here to UMass Amherst, the Open University UK, Cheryl Foxcroft, who's now our DVC of Learning and Teaching at Mandela University and Dave Jenkins who's my boss who's gotten more gray hairs than anyone else through 2021, I'm sure. We have six modules, Open, Ubuntu, Advocacy, Facilitation, Influencing and then the Sustainable Development Goals. The project was included in Open Education for Better World or OE for BW in 2018. Completed after two years, I got onto the advisory board and this year I was a mentor to an amazing project leader with a course titled Peacebuilding in High Risk Communities in South Africa, All Mentor from Cape Town. Now the Open and Influencers banner has three OE for BW courses or projects completed. In 2021, the Goji and Picture Storybook team has been a revelation and collaboration in lockdown and I'm so proud of this team because we've also won another award here. I must say that the support of my partner has been a solid foundation to draw upon and so Igor, thank you, thank you OE Global also for having me be part of your efforts across the years. It feels like family and a truly open one so why do I continue to advocate for openness? In short, open textbooks, social justice, access and inclusion of amongst other factors. The knowledge wealth from the global south needs to be shared, needs to be platformed and profiled. Student voice and localized content is such amazing resources we can share and help others to revise, remix and more. In 2022 finally, the Mandela Uni Open and Influencers Open Textbook Fellowship goes live and I'm so excited, open excites me and there's a lot more to come. Thank you. Thank you Gino. Yeah, beautifully said. Thank you Gino and it's really I'm actually really moved by how articulate and passionate everyone is about this work and it's really people like you that keep me going in this work too and drive the work of OE Global. So I thank you so much Gino. Thank you Gino. That was beautiful and I hope that you take some time as well just to celebrate your community like you did so beautifully and you're in your descriptions. That was that was lovely. It's an award like one of those awards this goes to a person but there's as Gino listed rattled off so many different names there. There's a whole support network as well around around everybody that that keeps the work moving and and the celebration is is for for all of those individuals as well so it's just a nice ripple effect. Very nice and if I'm not wrong I think I saw Gino's mom was here in the celebration. Okay up next is Gemma. Gemma over to you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Thank you to the organization Open Global for this award and also for the invitation to this event. I've been told to share with you a little bit my background with the Open Education and I can tell you that my love story started in 2010 when I chose this topic for my PhD but since then I've been very very involved in this field because I really I'm really excited about this. I've been advocating for Open as a researcher as a librarian and now as a teacher and I've been collaborating in different projects but today I'm representing and speaking on behalf of Rebune the Spanish network of university libraries and I can say that really we are very grateful and very proud to receive this award for the kit of rare and you know we decide to submit this kit of rare to the Open Education Excellence Awards because our commitment with openness but in general open access, open science, open education and also because we believe in the OER recommendation of UNESCO and that was why we decided to do it and I can explain you also a little bit our toolkit because the kit of rare is a toolkit of OER is an OER about OER so we explained here in this resource what are the OER, how they can be used, reused and it started to teachers and also librarians and all kind of stakeholders that wants to know about OERs and there are like other reasons also because we believe that it has been considered a toolkit like interesting for reuse and also remix and adaptation and it's because we consider that is an example of reuse so we adopt the original OER toolkit from the university libraries of Ontario and even now it has been used to generate new OER toolkits in the Spanish libraries so we believe that it's a reuse object. It's also collaborative experience of co-creation contents and co-operation between different libraries and colleagues who I really appreciate and thank you them for the effort and for their professionality. Muchas gracias a todos compañeros de radio, muchas gracias a to Tom. Also because this OER, this toolkit is an OER in Spanish so this is very important for the Spanish speaking community. There are not so many OERs in Spanish in the world so this is also something aligned with the UNESCO recommendation of OER so this is also positive, alas but not least because our kit of rail has a big impact in the Spanish and Latin American educational environment. We have received some congratulations and also questions about among teachers, librarians and other stakeholders so we know that the kit of rail is being used and is useful for our users and this is the the main award for us that is something useful for our users to implement OER recommendations in teaching and learning so thank you very much from from Breville and also from my university, University of Barcelona from Spain. Thank you Gemma, so wonderful to hear about the involvement of librarians and I think really a critical group in the open education world and also I just love the the multilingual Spanish nature of this work Gemma, congratulations. Congratulations Gemma, you know nobody does reuse like librarians you know it's just it's just an incredible incredible object and I and I recognize it from my colleagues in Ontario. I do see some some of the some of the echoes of the original object that you that you adapted there so it's just wonderful to see yeah. Thank you, thank you to all my colleagues, librarian colleagues and also I would like to say thank you to Spark Europe and all the you know all the work that is doing also with the in oil network of open educational librarians because of course librarians are helping a lot in implementing all the OERs in different communities so congratulations to them as well. Thank you, thank you. All right well so powerful speakers and awesome work happening all around the world through the leadership of people like like our speakers and so again congratulations to them but also to all of the award winners and we have one other special announcement that we want to bring forward now oh right maybe you should do this. Oh yes okay sure um well I mean I think this is this is a really important piece of the puzzle Paul because you know we were talking about this just the other day the OE the OE awards are really you know for the community by the community and it's really important to recognize that there's a whole pros I mean there's a whole bunch of people Marcella you know is the is the heart and soul of the OE awards but there are also is a whole bunch of people who take the time to review carefully the work of their colleagues and those are individuals who are living and breathing this stuff every day so we just wanted to thank all of the individuals who were part of the OE awards reviewing committee and all the people who do all the work behind the scenes at OE Global to bring it all together as well. Yeah really big thanks to to this awards committee I think it's a significant amount of work to to do the review process and we love that it's community-based this is not awards that just OE Global decides so and so it deserves an award this is like the community nominating people and the community reviewing those nominations and selecting award winners so fantastic work by everyone involved. Okay so I think that's I think I can move on. The next piece is really a special announcement from OE Global about some a piece of work that we've been working on behind the scenes now for quite a few months and that is that as we entered this 10th anniversary of the OE awards we really wanted to celebrate not just this year's award winners but all 10 years of past award winners and so Marcella Morales who's our OE Global staff person who's been leading these awards for all 10 years amazing work on her part to kind of bring the awards to life and to lead them forward for for all those 10 years thank you Marcella really wonderful so Marcella and myself and a colleague of ours David Kindler worked on developing a book which we're calling Education for All 10 Years of Open Education Luminaries from Around the World and this book is a compilation of all of the past 10 years award winners every single award winner is listed in this book and is the book was produced in partnership with Andreas van Goetend and his his organization in Switzerland that really helped us produce and publish this book in press books and so I want to give a shout out to Andreas and Petra and his team for helping us produce the book and and maybe maybe maybe actually before I show the book Marcella do you want to just say a few words about the book itself and your work on the awards? Sure absolutely first of all I want to say thank you thank you Paul first and and thank you everyone for being here and for sharing this space with us it is such an honor to be surrounded by so many open education luminaries from around the world so thank you thank you very much the ones that have been presenting their awards and also those who are those of you that have been seeing us through the stream thank you your chats and all and and I was thinking about the last 10 years of open education through the process of this book and seeing open education through the lens of the awards has been such an interesting and humbling process and a privilege to see the movement grow and evolve and expand through these 10 years I know that it happened to you probably to you as well Paul that we died into the book starting with one little thing and then I saw myself three four five hours later later still finding interesting thing that happened 10 years ago so it was really an interesting process and I remember back when I joined the organization which was at the same time as Igor Lesko which I am sure most of you know and that was a little bit more than a year ago and thinking about that process back then just the concept of open was mind-blowing to me having the opportunity of sharing knowledge freely and openly with the entire world felt such such a new and great idea and it was a time when we were sharing pretty much only courses so through this process fast forwarding 10 years and and to see that open education to me has pretty much become the standard and now I couldn't imagine education being presented any other way the opportunities that it offers to the entire world not only we are constantly saying that we try to give back access to everyone but I think that it's pretty much access in every level of open education education not only as a formal education as we know it but the extension of being able to share knowledge to every little corner of the world so now that I can what we started sharing courses going back to the 10 years of the book has become to me like an entire world oil machine these movement of open education so the courses become the way of sharing content and then we saw MOOCs and open textbooks and repositories and now we have this new category for human infrastructure infrastructure and I'm sure that many more are going to be coming up and then through this expansion of the awards we started seeing the open practices and I think that I want to say is that the awards are only a reflection of how the movement has been evolving and growing so the categories are usually a reflection of this expansion of the movement so how we share the open content is through the practices and we have an entire set for those categories that 10 years ago we didn't even see as a possibility and and also I think that how the awards started was was just a way to celebrate these efforts but these efforts that we were seeing popping up all over the world but I think that the awards have become much more just as both Alina and Gino and you were saying that the awards are not only a recognition of one particular project but what I what I have been seeing is that these awards are like little seeds that we plant on a community and we can see those little seeds expanding throughout the community and they take ownership of that project and then we see branches of new ideas growing from that little seed that was planted through that award or that recognition so I see that how beautiful it is to see these awards become more and more and more to that particular context or group of people that were involved and and I really just hope that this is the first decade of many for the Open Education Awards for excellence and I truly can't wait to see what what more is to come and just as a final thought I do want to say and acknowledge Paul because he is a really truly thanks to his tenacity and leadership that we have um these beautiful book that Paul is just about to present so thank you thank you very much Paul for that um and I pass it back to you all right well thank you Marcella I really was a team effort and and really Marcella is the heart and soul of these awards I want to I will share my screen here and I just give you a little short walkthrough of the book but I also again want to acknowledge Andreas van Guten and his team at Boop Nets um and here's the link to their organization that helped us with the production of this book and let me and let me share my screen now um let's see okay so here's um here's uh I'm now sharing my screen of the book um the book as I said it's called education for all ten years of open education luminaries from around the world it really is in celebration of this tenth anniversary I I do want to acknowledge that this was a really significant team effort and David Kindler who's with us here today thank you so much David did a lot of the editing and writing associated with creating this book and both Marcella and I also wrote significant sections um the book covers not just it's not just a compilation of all ten years of award winners but it also provides a history of open education global and the evolution of our name so if we go back ten years we weren't called open education global so how have we changed it also includes a history of the awards which which Marcella touched on which explores how the awards themselves have evolved the categories of the awards and kept in pace with and aligned with what's been evolving in the open education field so that's quite an interesting section and there's also a section that explores the timeline associated with the awards actually let's look at a few of these things actually please okay um so here's the history of the awards so so um that look at how the awards and the categories of the awards have evolved going all the way back to 2011 and the significant changes in the open education field that have ended up being reflected in the open education awards themselves and so we thought this would be interesting to include a history of the evolution of open education and a glimpse forward into the future we also did or Marcella did this wonderful compilation of um images associated with the trophy the the certificate that was in some years and the badge associated with the awards that awardees tend to kind of include on their own personal communication and website so um there is this wonderful kind of depiction of how the awards have evolved over time and this is really um in my view sort of an interesting and first compilation of a historical review of open education from the lens of these awards we also generated or Marcella generated this great timeline showing how the awards have evolved over time using a timeline kind of approach and describing the highlights of the awards by year what what countries were were involved in winning awards and you get to really see just how global the awards have been and the various categories associated with awards we we did spend some time um and wanted to reach out to people the open education awards for excellence and so some of our board members have been award winners and so they kindly provided some descriptions of how winning an award impacted them and we heard many similar stories from the other award winners that have been featured today so there's some great um statements about the value of the awards I also want to say and acknowledge that um we invited award winners from the past 10 years to express in their own words the value the awards have meant to them and we received some wonderful text testimonials about that and some amazing videos which are available on the the awards website webpage associated with the 10th anniversary and then and then finally just to say here we can see a sections of the book that highlight the actual winners and so here are the winners for the individual awards for example for all 10 years including links to the work and a profile of each person associated with winning a particular award and the same is true with the various other categories so if we're talking about open asset winners um and uh and in general what we've done is summarized who won the award what year they won it a little description of the basis of their work and then a link to their work inviting you all to explore the amazing open education work that's been taking place by these practitioners for over 10 years um the book itself just so you're um so so you can actually get here's the awards website and you can actually both read the book online it's being hosted by Andreas's organization thanks again Andreas for hosting it for us but you can also download an epub version of the book or a pdf version of the book of course it's openly licensed and freely available to everyone right here from the website and we've started a discussion thread in our oeg connect space which invites you anyone moms included can express appreciation to award winners so we really do hope that you'll uh you'll do that and uh and provide some uh some words of appreciation and thanks and congratulations to the award winners and then uh and then here is where on the awards website we have the text testimonials about the value of the awards and i also really want to encourage you to watch any of these videos that past awardees have submitted that summarizes in their own words and thank you all who do who did these videos but they summarize in their own words what winning an award has meant to them and they're very very powerful in moving um and so forget about netflix you got to watch these particular videos so um that's a little bit of a summary of the book itself and what it contains we do hope that you enjoy and reading it and exploring it and for all of those who are in it congratulations again 10 years of amazing work and open education it's really quite an accomplishment and we're really pleased and delighted to provide this compilation of that story in one book the last thing i'll say is that we do intend for this book to be essentially evergreen and we will add to the book each year that the awards happen the new award winners and so the current book contains all the winners up until 2020 and obviously now this year we've just had winners for 2021 and so we will want to add those winners to the book as we move forward okay so um that's it from my side um there's uh lots to explore here big appreciation from from all of us uh for for participating in our celebration today and congratulations to everyone who's received an award we will uh encourage and invite you to now post messages into chat if you want to say anything further to either oe global or the award winners um but that um is is the kind of conclusion of our celebration show maybe I should bring Lena back out onto this come on back Lena onto the stage i have to i have to recommend do personal recommendation to watch the videos of the former award winners they are really lovely and and and and very succinct and thoughtful like it's just uh they're just they're just wonderful um I hope everybody goes and watches them and that we have many more to come uh from all of the award winners talking about the impact um that they have experienced from the awards that they have received from oe global so we'll keep it going it's been so nice to be a part of it paul and thank you to everyone who has joined us here today well and thank you Lena for getting out your uh your special Gucci wear um I knew you were wearing a bow tie paul so I thought we had to be matching okay um and I think from my point of view um let's just go back to the back team here and see that there's our producer and director in the back room is there anything further that we should be announcing that we haven't talked about yet I think we've covered everything okay I think we have so um so why don't we bring this to a close Lena uh let's just kind of maybe end with a collective round of applause to all the past award winners um and also to this year's award winners and we do hope and encourage you to uh check out the book distribute the book share the book as widely as possible it's really a celebration of the entire global open education community and it's with our great affection that we uh we make this book available and hope that it helps advance the work of everyone around the world bye for now see you next year