 over to our actual presenter Dave. Thank you, Christina. Of course. Can you see my screen? Yes. Okay, welcome and thank you for being here. My name is Dave Dillon. I am Counseling Faculty and a professor at Grossmont College in San Diego, California. I'm also a California Community College Statewide Academic Senate Regional Lead for the OER Initiative. I acknowledge that my home campus Grossmont College resides on CUMIE land. This land acknowledgment serves to honor and respect indigenous peoples and their connections to the land. I wish that we were all together in person and the best that I could do is share a Zoom virtual background of Taipei Medical University where we were originally planning on being able to gather. I am glad that the virtual environment, although not the same, has allowed folks that might not have been able to travel to Taiwan to be able to participate. Blueprint for success in college and career is a college success OER textbook. The blueprint text is a remix, including creative commons by attribution works from Open Oregon, Lumen Learning, and the State University of New York with intentional design of reading more like a conversation rather than a textbook talking at students. It includes TED Talks, personal essays, and culturally relevant examples that resonate with students and with faculty. The blueprint text was published in 2018 by the Rebus community. I humbly share that the blueprint OER text won a textbook excellence award from the textbook and academic author association and an open textbook award last year from OE Global in 2019. One of the most valuable and gratifying results of using the blueprint OER text is seeing significant increases in student success and attention data. The blueprint text has much, to my surprise, experienced unexpected popularity and has been adopted in over 30 colleges and universities and now reaches over 10,000 students each semester. With greater influence, there is greater responsibility. I acknowledge that I have a responsibility to include and amplify voices of more female authors, more authors of color, more LGBTQ authors, and more authors of differing abilities and I will continue to strive for inclusivity and anti-racism in the content of the text. So today, I just shared with you a background of what blueprint is. I'm going to talk about the community of blueprint, really the how and the who behind what created this. I happen to receive a fair amount of credit and accolades for blueprint success but this has really been something that I would not have been able to put together had not many, many people supported and volunteered their time and expertise with the project. We will hear from two voices of contributors. So you have perspectives from different folks of their role in blueprint and then I will be happy to share an ancillary update for where some of the current projects are at. This is what the front print cover of the text looks like. The theme of this is community collaboration and teamwork and I want to start with a huge thank you and a tremendous amount of gratitude to my mentors. I was trying to figure out who I could ask questions to in the very beginning of this project and I am extremely fortunate to have selected some phenomenal individuals that are forces in the open education global world. And it just so happens that three of these four, Una, James and Amy, are presenting right now at the same conference in a different room. So while I may not get to give my gratitude to them directly through this session, I will encourage them to watch the recording later so that they can hear my thank yous to them. And then Nicole Thinkbiner is the fourth of that team that I affectionately call my think tank and she has evolved on to some different things but the four of these people were always people that I could go to to ask questions and gain insight and knowledge and this wouldn't be what it what it became without them. So then there was platform support from a number of folks on the press books and Rivas teams that specifically Zoe, Aperva and Hugh were incredible with support. And then that's a good segue into sharing these two voices. So this is a voice of Aperva from the Rivas community and from Tom Priester of SUNY Genesee, both who played parts in contributing to Blueprint. And, Helen, I'm going to remember what you told me. I'm going to sharing. I'm going to click on the video and to reshare. You're seeing the video now? Or a blank screen? Blank screen, yep. There's a video. Oh, she's silent. I am a project leader at the Rivas community and we've been supporting Dave's project Blueprint for Success since about 2017. So for those of you who don't know, Rivas community is a Canadian charity that supports open publishing efforts. And I was first involved in Dave's project actually as a project manager of sorts and supporting the peer review process that the book was going through. So this was back in 2017 and what started out as a small group of about 80 reviewers, plus Dave, plus a few of my colleagues at Rivas, less than 15 people has over the past three years grown into a wonderful community of faculty, librarians, students and others who are involved and or using the Blueprint for Success series. I know that right now we have over 30 adopters of the text, thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of students who are using the book and reading the book every semester and numerous other adapters and other touch points, whether it's librarians, administrators, staff who have helped the book and helped the project grow over the past few years. I want to highlight a few ways in which the team and the community behind this project has been so unique. When we're talking about peer review, which is when I first joined Justice this project, under 8% we focused not only on getting subject matter exports to come in and take a look at the book, but also accessibility practitioners to look at the book in its various formats for accessibility. We had students involved in the creation process as well. We had a few who were sourcing images to make the book more engaging, laying them out in our publishing 12 press books. We had other students acting as classroom reviewers to give feedback about how the book was perceived when used real time inside a course in a class. And we also had the help of numerous librarians, whether it was to help us check permissions on the various different sources in the book to build a glossary and even other designers to help with the book cover and other marketing materials. This is just to name a few people who were involved in the creation process of Hope and for Success. There are so many others who existed all the way from community organizers who pitched the idea of creating an audiobook version of the book all the way to those with expertise in audio recording, grant writing and others to support what is now a fabulous community of educators working in college success. So I'm really proud of how Dave and his team have managed to grow from just one single book to now a book that also exists in an audiobook format, one that has been adapted by other instructors around the world to better fit the needs of their students, of their readers and classrooms, and also one that might be translated into other languages to better fit the needs of students all around the world. Looking forward to seeing how this project continues to grow. Hi there, I'm Tom Priester and I am the mastermind behind the open source textbook entitled Foundations of Academic Success, Words of Wisdom and I punted for the most effective and the most affordable college student academic success textbook, but I could never find everything that I wanted to teach in all in just one book. It turned out that the pieces that my students learned the most from were the true to life stories that we included. So they either didn't read or barely glanced over the facts and figures, but provided very positive feedback and even remembered the words of wisdom from real people who have already successfully navigated the college journey. So I guess it makes sense because students love when real life stories are infused into the activities and lessons that we offer them. Are you seeing this lives again? Yes, we are. Thank you. Okay, so I'm happy to have the greatest technological challenge piece through and thanks again to Alan. So those were two pieces, one voice from the publishing end and another voice from an editor of some of the original authors. And so it was a really nice experience for me to be able to kind of pick and choose of the already high quality open content in the college success genre to curate what I wanted. And I had a vision for what I wanted to put together, had not very much idea or confidence that it was going to be well received. And really the beginning of this was just for me to create a resource to use in my own class. And so I'm rather certainly humbled and really rather surprised that with no marketing, just essentially word of mouth, this is spread so far. It's being used predominantly in California, but also in other places in the country. It's in Tennessee and it's in New Hampshire. It's been adopted in Canada. So I can say that it's international. And folks really seem to like it and folks are participating in improving it. So I appreciate all the input and constructive criticism. The rest of these slides are going to be a journey through who contributed and how they were encouraged to contribute. So these are the original authors. These are the folks where I started with their work and was able to pick and choose some things and put it into a remix. Then these are the authors of the work that Thomas Priester edited. And I want to point out that I'm so proud of the diversity within this particular group. This is the group that put together the personal essays. They're written by students, by faculty, by administrators, and by staff. And these are the things as in Thomas's words that students love. They really connect with the words from this piece. So I'm thankful for all of those contributors and the fact that they open licensed their work. I was petrified to have a peer review done. But thankful that these folks not only gave suggestions that improved the content, but did so in such a respectful way. They were really champions of the cause. And I can't share enough appreciation for them. There's a librarian at East Carolina University that we put out an open call for, for someone to volunteer to do a glossary. And I'm happy to have that high quality piece in the text. I recruited someone on my own campus to help with footnotes and citation consistency. Because when I was curating all the work, there were different styles. And I did not have the expertise to try to be able to put those together in a consistent way. As Aperba mentioned earlier, we did an accessibility review. That was extremely important to me. And so I'm thankful for Will and his contributions. There were a number of students and hat tip to Christopher and Sean who put together a student volunteer technical program. And that's how we were able to use Devin's work. And so Brooke and Devin contributed on the cover art, both the front and the back of the print cover, which has been widely applauded. Big thanks to Del Mar and Jennifer. While this project started on the press book side of things, Del Mar and Jennifer helped make it easy for folks to remix wherever they may have other content that they're coinciding with. The support goes on and on. And huge thank you to Alexis who presented earlier this morning and a whole host of folks that helped. There were other authors in other places who had put some work together. And this is an example of a case where I reached out and said, hey, your content is fantastic. Would you consider changing your license so that it's more open? And this is the second time, two for two, that that has happened. Alexis helped with the other one with SUNY. Shout out to the Stanford University Global Studies Division and the EPIC, the Educational Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum Program. This fellowship that I had the privilege to be a part of really helped support the new cultural competency chapter. Federal Alice Nelson and I presented this morning. I'm so thankful to be able to collaborate with them with the Life in Quarantine project. There are ancillary contributors all over the place. And I'm thankful for them. Folks continue to adopt and to adapt. And that's exciting because I think in the future someone is going to continue to improve the work. And I hope there is a day where I'm going to adopt what someone else has created and see the innovation and improvement. And then students have had their kind of hallmark on this project from the beginning, in the middle, in the end. We're always asking students what their perspective is. And if they think that it is high quality, if it helps them learn and listening to their feedback. Quick update on the ancillaries. And then I'm leaving about a minute for questions. We have instructor slides because those are things that instructors have asked for. There are approximately five quiz questions for every chapter that instructors can use. We have a beta version of an audio book where students have read and were recorded reading their each chapter. And we continue to improve and refine that. We're always looking for new content. We're updating content. And we're working on a Spanish translation. Amy Hoffer is involved in trying to recruit for grant funding for translators. And then I just want to read this short quote on teamwork from a colleague of mine, Teamwork is a complete denial of self-interest, individual statistics and personal glory, all in exchange for making your teammate look good even when they don't and be successful even when they're not. It's making sure she knows that she's never fighting alone and that she's not merely an individual member of a team, but rather an essential component to a unified whole working toward a common goal. It's been 15 years since she wrote that and it's still, I still get emotional about it. If you would like to be a collaborator, this is a global call out. I would be happy to work with you for the greater good. And I'm right ahead of time. I'm sorry that I went a little over to not allow many questions, but thank you for being such a wonderful audience. Here's my contact information, if you'd like to follow up with me and please feel free to use OE Global Connect for communication as well. That's exactly