 All right. Welcome, everyone. This is Una Daley from CCC OER and welcome to our Achieving the Dream OER Degree Community Meeting, Spring 2018. And I understand a lot of people are not experiencing spring weather at the moment, but hopefully another few weeks we'll see the spring. And we've got our main topic here is getting ready for the OER Degree Initiative Summit in Miami. And of course I have Fran Carpenter from ATD and Richard Sebastian here with me who will be sharing lots of good information about the summit and other things with you today. Here's kind of our agenda. We're going to go through some degree news updates. We're going to talk a little bit about some of the conferences this spring that you've been attending. And we hope that you can share some information if we don't have the latest with a focus, of course, on Dream, which was just about a month ago and a very successful conference. And then we're going to get right into the OER Degree Initiative Summit. And we have two very brave folks out there, Madeline Ford and Samantha Ben-Aruso who've agreed to give rapid fire demonstrations for you this morning to show you what everyone's going to get a chance to do at the summit. And then we'll just talk a little bit about other conferences that are coming up and any other topics that you'd like to share with us. Any questions? All right. Well, I think I'm going to turn this over to Richard and Fran to talk a little bit about the summit. And I can give you guys remote control or I can move the slides for you, whatever you prefer. Let's see. Hand me remote control. Let's see if it works for me. Okay. Sometimes I know it's tricky. So Auna is doing that. I just want to say hello to everybody again. We look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks in Miami. So this, we're just going to give you a little brief overview of the summit. We want to share a couple of things and save a couple of surprises for when we get there. But basically, the summit is, this is our technical, this is technically, excuse me, our last meeting of every one of all of the grantees together. And so that's why this year we want to make sure that we really celebrate you. We highlight things that you're doing and things that you've accomplished. I think I lost the next, let's see what happens. Nope. Oh, no, I lost it. Wait. Oh, no, good. Well, let me go back. So basically, we're going to be at the Miami Marriott and Biscayne Bay. That's on the slide a little bit later. So I want to make sure that everybody has their hotel rooms and that they've registered for the conference. Our registration numbers are sort of fluctuating. They're increasing every day and we want to make sure that we have everybody registered to attend. A couple of things to keep in mind as we move forward are the Lumen deadlines. You all know about these very well. So our next one would be June 15th. You all know that the March one passed already. So our June 15th one is the next one that's coming up. And we really want to make sure that all of the feedback is responded to and gathered so that the summer can go off well. Let me see. Keep losing it, Una. So maybe you click for me, Una, please. Sorry about that. No problem. So then also, we're going to have during the summit a presentation from SRI. And so this is just a slide, basically, that we share every time we have these meetings just so that you're aware of when the collection dates are occurring. So you can just glance at this. We're basically moving into, we're in spring right now for a lot of people, for everybody really, even though it's not really spring. And you'll see that all of the section level data will be finished by June, the student level data by July, and then the cost study data by August. We will share out some preliminary data during the summit so you'll have a chance to see, you know, baseline what things are looking like out there as far as student data and cost data are concerned. All right, next one, Una. So at dream, I actually was a little bit torn between a couple of the sessions so I know that a good amount of you were able to present. So thank you very much. I know some of you submitted proposals on your own and I know that some of you served on a panel with Richard to talk about the early impact of the degree initiative. So thank you. Everything was very well received. We got a lot of good feedback. And actually from the, from the conference, we, during the reception and during some of the sessions, we actually were, we were able to speak with people who are developing degree programs or have questions about OER in general. And they've been thus invited to the degree summit. So we'll be able to see a lot of those people there as well. Richard, did you want to say anything else about this slide? Yeah, so I looked and I don't know if, is anybody on the call today that was presenting? Montgomery, Montgomery was there. Yeah, that was Michael. I don't think so. Yeah. But anyway, so yeah, you know, I think what we, there were a total, I think of about six OER presentations at the summit. Two of those were from colleges that weren't part of the OER degree initiative. So Pisaic Community College and Southwest Texas Junior College, in addition to the ones that you see listed here. So, you know, it's pretty pleased with the kind of the growing interest and number of presentations and OER at Dream. We'll be looking next year, excuse me, hopefully we'll be able to get more of you to the Dream Conference to present as we're kind of winding down the OER degree initiative by then and should have some more kind of solid data. So hopefully we'll have an even bigger presence at Dream of OER grantee colleges. Just a note, I was able to go to, went to the Montgomery and Forsyth Tech presentation, which was, that was really great. I did a workshop with David Wiley on proving student engagement with OER and enabled pedagogy. I thought it went really well. I wasn't able to go to the host's presentation because it ran the same time as another one. And then our panel did a panel on the early impact of OER degree implementation. I thought it went really well, it was really, I mean, well attended, full house. We presented with folks from Hostos, from Lake Washington, and from Bunker Hills. We had a kind of the project lead and faculty member from each of those colleges on that panel. And I thought we got some good questions and it was a, it was really, did a great job covering kind of different aspects of how they rolled out this project and different challenges they face and how they dealt with them. So, so again, I was really, really pleased with that presentation. So, so thanks to everyone who, who came to dream and everyone who presented it was, it was really great to have OER kind of represented it on the, and during the, during the some, during the dream conference. Richard, this is, Una, were any of those recorded? I don't think so. Yeah, we didn't generally do that except some of the kind of main plenary sessions. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, too bad, but that they happened. Yeah. Okay. Um, yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to switch it early. Yeah. Okay. I just wanted to talk a little bit about spring conferences. I've been involved in a few of these, you know, more from an organizational point of view, but I also had the pleasure of co-presenting with a few of you at eLearning. And these are just, you know, I would invite you to share, Pima Community College was a sponsor for eLearning in Tucson, Arizona. Of course, that's where Pima is located. And I know they did many presentations on OER. And Jan or Keith or any of you online and like to share a little bit about what, what you presented on at, at eLearning. Jan. Hi, Jan. Hi. So you're asking about the innovations conference or? Actually, either. You, you have been presenting at multiple conferences this spring. And if you just wanted to share very quickly, what your, you know, what your topic was, what your angle on the OER degree was. Okay, well, we didn't present at eLearning. We didn't go to that one. We were, we presented here at the, are you talking about the ITC? Yeah, ITC learning conference. Sorry, I saw you there. So I know you were there. Yes. Yes. At ITC, myself and two colleagues really focused on the nitty gritty of creating a course with open education resources. So we kind of walk people through how we do it from start to finish and the support mechanisms we have in place for faculty who engage in that process with us. So that was really our focus at ITC. I did just present at innovations as well. Sort of, it was, it was totally interrupted by that snowstorm. I don't know if anyone else was there. But it was terrible. And get I won't even tell you how it was me getting home to Arizona from DC yesterday. But at innovations, we presented on something different. We talked about the development of Pima online within the the college and the history of that. So OER was just a part of it. I mentioned our progress with the grant, but it didn't focus specifically on OER. Okay, did you see the folks from borough of Manhattan there earlier this week? I did not. But I got to tell you almost everybody left on Tuesday because of the weather. Yeah, because I know there was borough of Manhattan specifically Jean Amaral from the library there had a had a submission proposal that was accepted. So no, I did not think we'll have to hear from her another time. And at the ITC eLearning conference also, I was there with Bay College Broward College and Florida State College at Jacksonville. And we had a really fun panel that we did, where each of the colleges did a short presentation. And then we used an online tool called Kahootz to ask questions. The audience got to vote on it. And then the three colleges got to weigh in on how they handle different challenges. So it was a it was a really fun panel presentation. And I don't know if if Joseph or Tom or Peter are here today, but we'd like to chime in at all. Hi, this is Pete. Oh, hi, Pete. How you doing on a good good. Greetings from our spring break. Yeah, sorry. Just sort of tell you something about me like I'm you know, I'm not too busy to be to be on this webinar. So the ITC eLearning conference was a lot of fun. I thought I thought the session that that we did with you was was was really cool. Definitely a little bit different. I also did a one of those little round robin presentations. They do like this, you know, sort of speed dating, where you sit at a table for 10 minutes, and someone, you know, presents or has a discussion, and then you move on to another table. And it was interesting. I met a number of people from different schools and we presented on I presented briefly about how you know, you have all you need to have all of these plans ahead of time in order to sort of plot out your your course, not only at the program level, not only at the course level, but also where your support's going to come from with with your faculty and subject matter experts and the kind of departments that you're working with. And that the timing of each of those things is so important, and none are predictable. So we sort of discussed, you know, what what you can do as as individuals to try to go with the flow. Because you have to have a lot of options on the table in order to keep producing these courses in a timely manner. Great, great. Yes. This is Jan. May I add one more thing? Oh, absolutely. I forgot to mention at the ITC e learning conference that I was inspired by the work of the Santa Anna team. In the keynote they did with the students at the open ed conference in October. And we did something similar at ITC where we brought in a panel of seven of our students to talk about their experience in online courses. And specifically with OER and it was standing room only in that room. And the students just did a great job articulating, you know, what they felt was beneficial for them. And it was just a really rewarding session. Wonderful. Thanks for sharing that. I think I might have missed that I did have to leave Tuesday night from the conference. I missed Wednesday. But yeah, it was an amazing conference. Actually, I've been attending e learning for probably six or seven years with a couple of years where I miss it. But there was so many OER sessions that I couldn't go to all of them because they were double booked. And this is so they've been growing year by year. But it was really impressive this year. And it was wonderful that we had ATD OER degree colleges there. You know, really sharing that the exciting work because I think the other OER presentations I went to were far more basic, which was fine because a lot of the ITC network is still relatively new to OER. But the ones that I attended that were, you know, from our degree grantees were far more kind of nuanced. And, you know, when you get to this level, you'll need to start thinking about this. So it was a nice balance. I don't know if anyone else has attended a conference this spring that's not on here that you'd like to share, you know, either regional or a national conference or one that's coming up. Hi. Hi, this is Javil from Central Virginia. Hi, Javil. We are we are going to have the a new Roycans conference. And one of the panels or one of the tracks is OER. Sheryl Huff is actually in charge of that. I don't think she is in this call right now. But we will be doing some OER presentations. And this is going to be April, April 11 to the 13th. Wonderful. Right. Week after summit. Yeah. She mentioned that to me in email. It sounds like a wonderful conference. For the folks in Virginia, which is a big, big group. Anyone else? Thank you for sharing that, Javil. I know there were some plans to go to ACC, ACC, which is I believe it's in Texas. I think it's in Texas is here. And I know the Texas Consortium was looking into that one. I don't know if they are still presenting there. But I'll check back in. I think San Jacinto was leading that one. We'll see. Yeah. Hi, good afternoon. This is Tom Joconnerly. How are you? Good, good. Great. Yes, I want to we will be presenting on Saturday at I think from 330 to 430 it is located in Dallas. Wonderful. And Gailin would be will be heading up the consortium for for all of us. But yes, we all will be there and we will be presenting. That's wonderful. That's that's a great conference to share your, your, you know, the work you've been doing. Wonderful. I'm so glad to hear that. And one more for SUNY and CUNY are getting together and they're actually doing their conference tomorrow on Friday. I saw something about that on Twitter. Who's speaking? This is Madeline, my apologies. Oh, sorry. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Yes. Yeah, boy, you guys are busy. Yes, we are. In a good way. That's wonderful. Thank you for sharing that, Madeline. Okay. And one last thing I wanted to throw in is is OE Global. This is the International Open Education Conference, and it's in the Netherlands this year. It's next month. It's the end of the month. And Richard Sebastian is going to be there, which is wonderful. And he'll be talking about OER degrees on a panel. I also have a panel of folks, some of whom are from ATD, OER degrees and some which are just doing OER degrees on their own on that panel. But we have an amazing assortment of community colleges coming this year. And that doesn't often happen, to be honest, because as many of you know, international travel is very hard for community colleges to support. But we have folks coming from the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Central, Herkmeyer College, I believe. Bill Pelts, are you coming to the OER Global in the Netherlands? I am going to. This is Juviel. You're, I didn't see your name, Juviel. That's wonderful. Oh, I'm so excited. And SUNY OER Services, so also the general big one. And it's, I'm going to have to add Central Virginia Community College to this list. Sorry, Juviel, I didn't catch. My problem. Wonderful. So we'll have to plan a little get together, you know, to celebrate that because I think the highest number we've ever had in the past is eight community colleges, you know, because of the travel. So we're looking more like 15 community colleges, which is whoa, that's more than I was able to split my expenses between the ATD grant and my professional development money from the college. So, wonderful. Yeah, and the Netherlands is probably about as close as you can get, right? If you're going to go to Europe, we're going to England, I guess, from the East Coast. It's a little longer for me from the West. Anyway, enough on that one. But so glad to have all of you coming. I think you're going to really enjoy hearing from all the countries. As you know, we have, we have members OEC has members in 40 countries. So it's, it's, it'll be a little bit different flavor. I think it'll be very interesting for everyone. I just had a quick open ed recap. You know, there is a report coming out next week on kind of everybody who came and participated. What I know is that as at the beginning of open ed week, we had 31 countries who had submitted events, either online or local or resources in 15 languages. The top three languages were English, Arabic and Spanish, which is which is interesting. A number of you participated with us on the Wednesday of open ed week. We did showcases. Those are on our website. And we'd and of course, we'd love to have you share those on your website too if you'd like. So they were 20 minute presentations about the OER degree that you're developing at your college. And it was Austin Community College, Central, Central Virginia Community College Pima Tidewater and West Hills in California. So really fun. There were hundreds of events and projects that that week. And in fact, in Virginia, it was Virginia Tech had kind of an open ed week a little bit later. And I think it may have been due to spring break, but they had some wonderful stuff happening just this just this last week. There were several multi day events. And there was a really interesting panel on how OER can help overcome higher ed equity gap. And if anyone would like a link to that, I can send that out later on. But it was a wonderful panel with some Community College folks with Nicole Allen from Spark. And so this is kind of the evidence that we need for promoting OER at a national level. Anyone else want to share what they did for open ed week? Sure, I'll go ahead and share. This is Pete Shapiro. Our library hosted interactive OER walls. Depending on the library location you are at, it was either like a pinup board or could have been even a white board and students were asked to put up sticky notes to tell us what they would what they would do with the money they saved. They did not have to pay them pay for textbooks. And we got over 100 responses, which was nice. We are collating them as we speak. We also held four workshops for faculty numbers on OER at the different locations over the week. And we got six of our subject matter expert faculty to step forward. And we're in the midst of having them captioned right now. But we did anywhere from 15 minutes to 30 minute webinar introductions to the courses they designed. So we will have those on our website once that's all squared away. And I hope to actually be able to pull some quotes for that from those by the faculty members about their students for the summit, which would be kind of neat. Great. Thanks, Pete. And I know Tanya from Santa Central also she sent me some different activities they did during open end week and I'm collecting these and I'll be doing a blog post over the next week about those. So I'll send an email reminder but for any of you who would like to include the wonderful work you're doing, I'd love to put that in the blog post because we share that year to year and we use that as a way to help people think about what's a good thing to do next year. And so thank you so much, Pete, for sharing that. And anyone else real quickly because I know we need to move on. We need to turn this back over to Fran and Richard to talk about the summit. All right, well, let me turn that over. And so I'd love to hear from the rest of you as well. And we can share that out more widely among the community. Back to you Fran. Oh, sorry, I was muted. Okay, so as I mentioned before, the summit is April 3rd through 5th. So it's going to be at the Miami Marriott-Biscayne Bay. If you have not registered, please do so as soon as possible. The registration link is here in the PowerPoint and we have emailed it out. If you need it again, I can put it in the chat box for everyone also. A couple of things that are new to this year's summit is that we're introducing the rapid fire updates, which you all are going to sort of hear a little sneak peek of a few today. And those are really just updates for the entire group about where you are with your initiative. Some sort of student impact, any lessons learned advice you would give to colleagues or anyone else who is interested in starting an OER degree or just building an OER course. Then we actually are going to have non-grantees attend, like I mentioned a little bit before. So these are invited guests. So these were handpicked guests. Some of them are from the US. We have some people coming in from Canada, which will be exciting. So they're going to share some of their experiences with everyone. So we're making this really sort of a networking and learning experience for both sides of the house. So we'll need to go to the next slide. Absolutely. So just so that you're ready for the summit, we want to make sure that all of your course plans are updated. So this is extremely important as we're going through the courses that have run that have been Lumen certified and that are still in the queue. So we want to make sure that everything is as up to date as possible. And we want you to really get a head start on your rapid fire presentations. And you can also make those as creative and fun as you want. Because we have so many we're going to hear from all 38 colleges. So we want to make sure that they're lively also. Next slide. Okay, so I'm going to talk a little bit about the schedule. So on day one, which is April 3, registration will open as early as 11. We have a good amount of you coming in on Monday. So you'll be able to hang out in Miami for the warmth. And then come on over and register on Tuesday. The opening plenary is going to be by Richard. So that's going to be early on. And then we're going to do something a little bit different here with the partner breakouts. We're going to have just two breakout rooms where the partners pair up, and you all just go to one or the other room. And we're going to have the partners sort of swap in and out. So we're not going to break you all up into I think we had three or four groups last time. We're only going to have two this year. Then a break, obviously, and then the president of achieving the dream will come and speak and she will be giving more information about ATD's new strategic direction and celebrating you again as well. And then we're going to get a little bit of a data preview. So that's going to be by RPK group. And then we're allowing the non grantees to come in at that time. I have heard that a few of them want to come in to hear Dr. Stout's presentation. So you may have some some new faces in as early as three. Then we're going to start with our first set of rapid fires. There are six rounds of rapid fires so that everybody we're not going to hear from everybody at one time. So we have a few people signed up for round one. I did pre sign everyone up by alphabet. So if people need to switch, let me know I'm going to be sending out the list of who goes when. So in case anybody needs to move things around, you'll have ample time to change. Then we're going to go directly into our reception and then you have dinner on your own. Day two in the morning registration is early breakfast is also early. We're going to have round two of the rapid fires happening during breakfast so that you know, we're gonna, like I said, separate and chunk these out for people. And then we're going to go into a local grantees spotlight. We're going to hear from grantees and non grantees during this Florida spotlight. So we're going to have Broward, Florida State College of Jacksonville. We may have two others in Florida come and join the panel as well. So we get a grantee versus non grantee sort of perspective there. And then we're going to break into these concurrent workshops. So these topics really came out of needs that you all expressed and things that we think are important as you move forward towards the end of this grant. So we're asking that teams sort of strategize how they want to place people. Because once you're in a workshop, you're sort of in it. So if people want to break up their teams and have some people go to different ones, we encourage that. So we're going to have one on sustainability. And then we're going to have one on effective pedagogy and faculty engagement that's going to be led by our director of teaching and learning here at Achieving the Dream. And then we're going to have an accessibility panel that Eunice has been helping us put together. So we thank you for that. And then we're going to have another one on communication. So this is internal and external communications and sort of getting the word out on campus and sort of in the press around you in your community. So then we're going to go into our third round of rapid fires that will happen sort of right before lunch. And then we're going to break everyone up into affinity groups at lunch. So you're going to be able to sit with your colleagues at lunchtime. So we know that that was a big hit last year. And we want to make sure that we give people an opportunity to connect with people in the same area who might be dealing with the same type of issues or concerns or even celebrations, really. Okay. All right, day two in the afternoon. So after lunch, we're going to let you all have some team time. And we're going to have some sort of action planning for you, some things to think about when you're with your team. So you can sort of plan again for towards the end of the grant. Then there's at the same time, there's going to be a research and cost partner meetup. So if you're part of either the research group or the cost partner group, you're going to go off with RPK group or with SRI just for a quick check in with them. At this exact same time, the invited guests are going to have some programming specific to them. Then we're going to have another plenary in the afternoon. And then we're back again for our fourth round of rapid fires. Another plenary at 4pm. And then dinner will be at the hotel. So we're giving you a break, sort of about an hour and some change break before dinner. And then during dinner, we'll have our fifth round of rapid fire presentations. Right after that, we're trying to arrange a fun sort of social outing in Miami, close to the hotel if possible. So people can, you know, sort of let their hair down and enjoy each other. Just a note, so day two is very long, as you as you probably saw. So we're trying to throw in as many breaks as possible, so that people have a chance to sort of regroup and refresh if they need to. And we wanted to make sure there was a good amount of time between the last session and dinner. So on to day three, day three, again, breakfast is somewhat early. And then this is our final round of rapid fire. So this is round six of those. We're going to have a closing plenary. And then we're going to have a concurrent session, which is really going to be again around your team, and what you're going to be able to do when you go back to campus. After that, we're going to have a student panel. So we're hoping to have some students from Broward College come and talk to you about how we are courses and reduced textbook costs have really affected them. So we're going to hear from them at 1020. And then we're off. So we are arranging either box lunches or some other sort of light lunch for people. And then we're off for the whole spring, spring slash summer. Are there any questions about the schedule so far? Nope. Okay. All right. Great job. Thank you. I zoomed through that. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, now we have some rapid fire demonstrations. I really want to thank Madeline and Samantha for being willing to step up and do this a week and a half early. So Matt, Madeline Ford is the chief librarian and the OER degree initiative lead at Hostess Community College for in, in the CUNY system, the city of the University of New York system. And Madeline, would you like me to run your slides for you? Yes, if you don't mind. Okay, so we'll give you a few, you don't have to stick exactly to five minutes because I might get a little slow. Oh, okay. All right. Well, thank you. So, so as you can see, this is Hostess Community College. And the other team members who are working with me, Jacqueline DeSanto, she is the unit coordinator for early childhood education. And Linda Miles is a librarian here at Hostess, who's been working with me on the early childhood education. And I say I have spelling mistakes there, education initiative that we're working on. So some key challenges and roadblocks that we encountered. Early on, we knew it was going to be a challenge, but the biggest one is finding the OER materials that we needed to support early childhood education. And that remains consistently a problem. It was easy getting our genetic courses done. But the early childhood has been a little bit more challenging. Our next challenge has been expanding to more sections. We've gotten positives from students, but you know, getting the unit coordinators and chairs on board has taken a little bit more effort on our part. And communication lines, how we're expanding it to the broader college audience. So not just talking to our faculty, not just talking to our students, but talking to those people who also help with registration in various areas of our college. So everyone's always involved in student engagement. So just having everybody part of the conversation has been very important to us. And then meeting deadlines, I think that's our biggest challenge here. We have a lot going on at Hostess all the time. So just sticking to the deadlines and keeping faculty on top of the deadlines and with getting things in that has been a big one for us. The other one, which is still working on is adjusting to existing workflows to meet the demands of the grant. Coming into this, we was already we're all engaged in something already are several different things. So we're just trying to figure out how to make this all work. And it's still been problematic trying to figure out how to make it all work with an existing workflow flow. And one of our greatest challenges getting the data that SLRI means from our Office of Institutional Research, they have just been hit very hard by several individuals who have left the office. So it's been back and forth trying to get data from them. And one one hope said at some point that we can just pull the data ourselves and not rely on them to do it for us. So some of our successes and accomplishments. Early on, we got overwhelming buy in from our participating departments, which we did not anticipate when we first did this. And so when we sent out the call, we thought, well, let's just introduce them. What is OER because we figured no one knows and sent some videos with that because everybody likes to look at a video. And we got immediate buy in from our chairs and our unit coordinators. So I said that here's a part of our chairs. And so I don't think I put all the courses here, but we've completed the history course, the English course, math, psychology, and I should have mentioned there's a comma there. We've we've completed, I think believe four or five education courses to date. So we're on track. We got recognition from our chancellor does this every year. And somehow we got recognition. So it was nice to be nice to be known that we're doing some good work and a chancellor recognizes that and shared it out with the entire entire CUNY community. We've seen increased interest in OER from our faculty and staff. So as they've heard about the ATD grant, they've been really excited and say, can we do something? And although it didn't fit into here, we've been we pushed them to our other initiative. We've also started the discussion about where this fits on reappointment, tenure and promotion on the college wide PMB level. And so that's been a really good conversation and a strong conversation. And we're bringing it back to the faculty as well to get their insight on where they feel it would have the most strength. The CUNY first designation for us, that's a big one. Everything lives and dies in the CUNY first. So we have a zero textbook in search field that students can do. And they can find all the courses that are available as their own textbook. Student impact in use. We weren't sure how students will receive this, but by all accounts, students have loved the idea of not having to purchase a textbook, have the materials that they need from the very beginning has been a plus for them. And faculty have seen the difference it has made with the students. Librarian and faculty relationship. That has been amazing. We have some faculty are fine, they can work on their own, but for those who need support of the librarians, we're right there working with them and creating and building. And so it's been a great relationship to have that and a nice trusting relationship as well. And then we created a lib guide because it was so much information and keeping track of all of it, as opposed to just sending countless emails, which can be overwhelming. Putting everything into a lib guide has been very beneficial. All right, I have to tell you that you have used the five minutes, I'm going to let you continue. Okay, that's just good. Good for you to know for the actual summit. Yeah, I realize that. Yeah. Okay. Yes. So student voice and testimonials. So overall, students have loved having access to the materials. I think one of my favorite quotes is a student who said here, they need to take math 100. And although it was inconvenient for their schedule, they registered anyway, because they said they said it had a zero textbook cost, I thought that was great. Other students have said, you know, similar things, it's been really great having the resources right at hand, and they don't have to spend the money. So that's been great. So I'm going to advise two other institutions, create realistic timelines. I think sometimes we overthink it and we say we can get all this done in a week and really as we can't keep all the stakeholders in the loop all the time. So they know what you're doing and where you're at. Encourage collaborations with faculty and librarians. I think that's a wonderful thing. And even with faculty and with faculty, having them work together has also been very, very, very beneficial. And next one, go out the academic box. Looking at how you can push this out to the support services. For us, we have a learning center, we have a writing center, and how can they use these resources as well. And supporting librarians financially, like the teaching faculty, so if they can get a stipend that great, that's great, because it just says they're part of the conversation as well. And last for us in future plans, expand OER to all sections, work with non-academic departments to utilize OER, do more intentional training and more ongoing training. Implement models for sustainability. Looking to see do we want to use a version of TechSeed to support this, or shifting funds possibly from financial aid. How to get printing in place for those students who need that on-demand printing in particular, and making sure we address accessibility, and building and creating platforms, especially within the sciences and math. That's it. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Madeline, you were a few minutes over. Yeah. Thank you. But the content was exceptional. So thank you so much. And a few more times through you, you probably will get down. Yeah, definitely, definitely. Fran is going to be a lot crueler than I am, right, Fran? No, we're going to have fancy music to usher you off. That's fine. No, it'll be more succinct by then. Yes. Well, this is good practice. I'm glad. I'm glad. Yes, it is. Thank you. All right. Thanks again. And now we're going to move on to Samantha Venoruso from Montgomery College. And thank you, Samantha, for also being willing to do this. Thanks. New problem. So I'm excited to share this on behalf of Mike Mills and myself, and the rest of our steering committee. You can go ahead and advance to the next slide. Well, I guess I should say that our OER degree was focused on general studies with an English option, and a psychology option both built off of transfer to some of our close transfer partners. Some of our key challenges in roadblocks are very similar to Madeline's, but I decided to focus in on the letter M, momentum and maintenance. So I think some of our challenges are, you know, when we first started, there was a lot of momentum, a lot of excitement, there was a lot of high profile. Yay, we're going to get this done. And now we're in that sort of trough of, wow, this is a lot of work, we need to keep it going. And, you know, everybody's attention has been distracted by lots of other things. And so continuing to keep the really positive momentum around it is is a challenge. So that expanding sections being able to go beyond the faculty who initially participated and developed materials is difficult. Having an ongoing maintenance plan, so you know, a lot of the faculty put this together, had never taught with the materials or coming back to teach with materials. All of our faculty did this kind of in groups, we didn't have, I think we only had one or two single faculty doing it. So there's some branching off of, you know, this faculty has gone off and updated materials, that person has gone off and developed new materials. And not necessarily having a really strong process unless they're a really strong team to come back and re-centralize those materials so that they can be made available to everybody. So there's a lot of time around that involved. And so if a discipline or a department didn't spend the time making that plan, despite us asking them to do that, if they didn't do that, it's hard for us to manage that for them. The other piece about that is that we found a lot of the faculty weren't satisfied with what they found, and they wanted to do a lot more creation than we were able to compensate them for. So that I think was a struggle for a lot of faculty is they wanted to spend more time developing materials, but really with a, you know, a five-course teaching load, and we weren't giving them a full release, we're really just compensating from a stipend type basis. It was difficult for them to all be able to create as much as they would like to. So I think that was one of our key ones. Wow, my little thing went down. So success and accomplishments were brought to you by the letter A, awareness and access. So we have 27 courses that we're working on. 19 have been submitted to our new this semester. So they're just starting this semester. And then there's six that we're working on. There were some licensing issues. There's some of the more difficult ones to do. There's three psychology and three literature courses, which are still in the pipeline that should have been finished, but aren't quite yet there. But we've got 19 submitted and we have a bunch certified and we have about 364 sections of Z courses being offered this semester. And that's a really big win. We've doubled our enrollments in Z courses. And I think we have, we have faculty that are wanting to do this work. And we are, we have three other degrees that are building off of the grant courses, because most of our grant courses are, most of our grant grant courses are gen ed courses. So by having those gen ed course available, the three other areas, criminal justice, business and communications are all able to, you know, really focus on their discipline courses. Okay. So from in terms of student voice or testimonials, what I thought was really interesting, taking a sampling of some feedback before we got from a couple different courses, it was about half and half who were now recognizing what Z courses were, which is at the beginning of last semester, fewer students knew what they were. So I think one of the things that I thought was really great was that we are starting to see students that are intentionally selecting Z courses and are recognizing what they are. So, you know, Lorena being able to this, this was a winter session course, being able to pick that course up allowed her to be able to do more in the spring. You know, Michael's coming from another institution, he specifically took some courses here because they were Z, if you want to advance the next one. Again, somebody who knew and felt like the materials didn't distract from the learning and then finally, Carla, who really liked the flexibility and mobility of being able to carry her materials with her and not worrying about having to carry a book. And finally, my advice to other institutions, tie OER work to social justice and student success mission. I think one of the core things that we've pushed again and again at Montgomery College is that connection to our very strong mission of social justice and student success. Identifying support in faculty, library and staff champions, you know, find your champions, find the people who are going to go out and do the argument for you and then build support around them. So, you know, let them go out there, let them go out and evangelize and then make sure that you're providing a support network so that that work isn't just shouting into a wilderness but actually raises the profile of that work that they're already wanting to do. I think, you know, we found faculty taking risks and needing to iterate and needing to make changes and wanting to create, wanting to do this once they got into it. You've got to support that ability to get it wrong and then try again or that ability to recognize, oh, this wasn't exactly what I wanted to do the first time I'm going to try it again. Engaging students and making them your champions also is really important. Making sure that you involve professional development staff and that kind of connects over to the OER awareness and opportunities in other initiatives. So, for instance, if you've already got trainings for other things that are pedagogical or that are sort of longer term, building in, you know, a review of OER or the priority of OER into those really, I think, is a powerful idea. So, for instance, if you're training faculty to do distance learning, why not have a module in that on OER and encourage them to build an OER as part of what they're doing? Or if you're talking about active learning, building in a module about having student-created materials as part of active learning or problem-based learning or something like that, you know, just kind of weave OER conversation so it's normalized and is part of everything. And our future plans, there's a UNESCO Open Pedagogy Renewable Assignment Fellowship that's going to happen over the summer. And that's pairs of faculty or groups of faculty who are designing assignments that go across courses that are based, that are renewable and based on aspects of Open Pedagogy. We have a laptop lend project. One of the things that we found what we were concerned about was that some of our students wouldn't necessarily have access. We have Wi-Fi on campus and, you know, but if students don't have access to a device or something like that. So, we are trying a pilot of lending laptops out each semester and we're hoping that that will continue into the next year. We have additional Z degrees and then we're also involved in statewide collaborations for OER. Great. All right. Thanks. Thank you very much, Samantha. You were a little over seven minutes on here. And I think you, both you and Madeline would have been a little bit faster if you didn't have me clicking for you. But once again, really excellent content here. Maybe work on a minute a slide or something just to make sure it snaps. So, what do the rest of you think? Samantha and Madeline shared some really amazing information. It was great. I thought they were both awesome. Thank you. I look forward to seeing them again and also the rest of the grantees. Great. And I also have to jump off to join another call. I wanted to say that. But thank you very much for doing it. I thought it was awesome. Yeah. Thank you for joining us, Richard. Yeah, this is Fran. I agree. I'm glad that you all had a chance to listen and practice. So, it lets you get a feel for how it's going to go in a couple weeks. So, thank you. Wonderful. Yeah. Thanks again, Samantha and Madeline. Really appreciate you doing that. I just wanted to mention our case studies. We had two that just got posted last week from Austin Community College and Pima Community College. And we'll have another couple up there soon. If you would like to do a case study with us, I think the information is up at the top. We'd love to share your story. So, we have about, we have nearly 10 now. We will have 10 in the next couple weeks. So, we would like to get a case study from all of you. So, it's a relatively simple template that you need to fill out. I know everyone's busy. So, but thank you for considering that. These are just webinars that are coming up. I think you're probably on our CCCOER list. I also send this out on the OER degree one. We have a really interesting one in April. It will be the week after the summit on how open educational practices support student-centered design and accessibility. So, this is about making your courses, customizing your courses to be diverse and inclusive and accessible, which is, which is an ongoing topic. And, of course, a big, it's a big goal for CCCOER and I know for many of you who work in this space. And then, we have some great ones in May and June too. Hope you can join us for those. I wanted to mention the summer and fall conferences before we end here. I wonder how many of you are going to the Northeast OER Summit or planning on. It's the May 31st and June 1st. So, it's right there kind of on the cusp of May and June. And, it is still open for submissions. So, they are due April 4th. So, you have a little, I think a little over a week and a half to get those in. If you want to submit, I had the pleasure of being at the conference last year. It's in Amherst at the University of Amherst and it was a wonderful conference. Lots of great colleagues to share with and a really beautiful location there. And then, I think, I think many of you know about the open ed conference in October of this year and it will be in Niagara Falls, New York. And submissions are due for that in just about two weeks. So, still plenty of opportunity to get a submission in there to talk about your amazing work. There's many other conferences coming up, not so many in the summer that are still open for submissions, but the ones for the fall generally are still open. As I mentioned, there's a couple that are coming up soon. So, do check out our list here. We have a Google Doc with the conferences, the national conferences. If you have regional conferences you'd like to advertise, please put those out on the list or email me and I'll add them to this list and share them with people. Those conferences that are focused on OER. And this listing has tabs. So, you'll end up in spring of 2018, but if you go to the bottom of the Google sheet, you'll see summer and fall and you'll be able to get over to those. All right. I think this is open discussion time. We had a couple of things in the chat window, Fran, did you? Okay. Oh, all right. Great. It looks like you answered all those questions. They should be covered. And if you are part of a consortium and you did not get the template, please let me know and I can send it to you. There are some questions about the UNESCO SDG Open Pedagogy. This is Samantha. This is part of the UNESCO project and it's, I'm not exactly sure how all of it's connected because I'm not really involved with it, other than knowing that we're doing it, knowing that it's happening. But I can send some more information to Una that she can put out for everybody if you like. Wonderful, Samantha. Yeah, there was a call for proposals that went out. I can't remember now when it was to work on this project. Yeah, that would be wonderful. Samantha, you can send it directly to the OER degree list. Okay. Everyone should have posting privileges. If you have any problem, just send it directly to me. Sure, I'll do that. Thank you for sharing that. And I know there were some comments here. Normally, I cannot use my keyboard while the presentations are going on, which is why I can't answer questions because it causes the slides to advance. But there were a few comments and questions. So if you had, if you posted something there in the chat window and you didn't get it answered, please, if you have a microphone or just re-enter it into the chat window. If there aren't any other questions, I think Fran and I'll be online for a couple more minutes. But we want to thank everyone for coming today and looking forward to seeing you in Miami in just a week and a half. And here's hoping for milder weather ahead. And thanks again, Fran. Any last comments from you? No, I just want to thank everybody and I look forward to seeing you soon. All right. I'm going to turn off the recorder and we'll be here for a little bit. Okay. Thank you.