 My name is Maia Karzycz and I am an associate professor of soil science in faculties of land and food systems and also faculty of forestry. Soil web that was a first collaborative project that I had and then that opened more doors for another collaboration and now 12 years later the soil web initiative includes soil scientists, soil undergraduate and graduate students and also multimedia developers across Canada. So these guys were a little bit close on every single project that I had so far. I had students on the development team. I include them from the moment of proposal development. I run by the idea by them and then I always make sure that there are students on the team as reviewers and advisors. As a soil scientist who's been a soil scientist now for 30 years, I see open education as a very powerful tool or pathway for soil science to open its relevance or to advertise its relevance I should say to the general public. The new project that we will start developing this year will involve an app that will allow students and interested members of general public to do a citizen science data collection. That's something that was not possible even a couple of years ago. I use open resources in a blended model. I never would actually want to completely move into just online or distance education because I liked a personal interaction with students and I think that's very important both for students and for me because there is an ongoing feedback with open learning resources. You can have video footage or some kind of engaging activity maybe some kind of animation that follows on what's being covered in campus-based, classroom-based and even filters. It allows you to enrich your teaching and student learning.