 Welcome everyone to our November webinar on navigating the virtual open education conferences. This is Una Daly from the Community College Consortium for OER and we're so pleased you could join us today to find out more about the conferences that are coming up next week and the following week. I hope you're planning to attend those. So we're primarily going to focus on those conferences and we have two, we have two folks from each conference. First off from the steering committee from the open education conference and I'll mention those speakers here in just a moment and introduce them and then we'll also have two of our organizers from open education global who are going to talk about the conference that's happening the week after November 16th and then a Q&A for folks which you can use the chat window. All right, I am now going to introduce folks and let them say hello. I'm going to start on the left hand side here with Amy Harris Tan who is the Dean of English and Communications at Houston Community College and is also on the steering committee for the open education conference. Would you like to say hello Amy? Oh yes hello and thank you for having me. Wonderful and next up I'd like to introduce Lee Miller. She's the Director of Innovation and Compliance at the Center for Innovation and Excellence at Barton Community College in Kansas. Thanks. Hello. Thank you. We appreciate the invitation to talk today. Okay. And I'm sorry if I didn't mention Lee is also on the open education steering committee and they'll fill us in about you know a little bit about the committees and all about the conference in just a few minutes and next up is Susan Huggins. She's the Director of Communications at Open Education Global. Hi everybody. Nice to be here. Wonderful. And last but not least is Alan Levine. He's our Strategy and Engagement Director at Open Education Global. Hello everybody. Great to be here and see all our friends from Community College Land. Thank you to all of you for joining us today to help us navigate. And if I think I forgot to mention who I am, I am Luna Daley, the Director of CCCOER and today's moderator. So for those of you who aren't familiar with the Community College Consortium for OER, we've been around for 13 years now and our focus is expanding awareness and access to high quality OER and we do that through supporting faculty and also regional OER leadership and ultimately our goal is to improve student equity and success. And here you get a little glimpse of our members across the United States and we're very thrilled to have all those wonderful members who are doing open education on their campuses. I have a couple of quick announcements before we get into the main body of our webinar and one is that there is a free the textbook campaign that has been running this fall. It's organized by OpenStacks and it's inviting those of us in the open education community and also administrators at colleges and universities overall to look at some of the fine print around access codes and inclusive access, which is becoming a very popular method for publishers to deliver the instructional materials. We had a webinar that touched on this last month talking about the student impact. We had a very passionate and articulate student talking about how these access codes are actually making it more expensive for her to attend college. She's no longer able to purchase used textbooks and if she needs to retake a class, she has to repurchase the access code. So we're just telling people to take a look at the fine print, make sure that this, if you engage in one of these contracts that your students are truly benefiting from this. And you can see we are one of the co-sponsors. We're very proud to be one of the co-sponsors, Open Education Global and CCCOER and also Spark and Student Pergs, the Massachusetts Department of Higher Ed, ISCME and Creative Commons. So there's quite a few of us who are supporting this work. All right. And the final announcement I have is I wanted to mention the Open Education Awards for Excellence in 2020. This is something that Open Education Global has been running for, I think it's the last decade, but Susan may help me out there. And it's an opportunity for you to nominate your colleagues in the field. And of course, this is globally around the world who are involved in Open Education, either leading or in the classroom or running projects. And we don't have time to share everybody who was awarded this year, but I just did want to mention there were six individual awards given out here are the wonderful people here at the top left. And you can see there's people from New Zealand, from Canada, and of course from the United States. We have Amy Hofer there as she got a support specialist award. She of course is one of our members. She is the coordinator of Open Oregon. We also have Aperva from Rebus Foundation and Nick. I'm going to forget Nick's last name, but Nick was a student awardee who has worked at U.S. student purgs for advocating for open. You can also see there was quite a large number of open practice awards. And I'm sorry, I couldn't fit them all on the screen. So you can just see that there's a few of those up top. And I'll just mention a couple of those. The OER starter kit, which of course was started by Abby Elder, produced by Abby Elder at University of Iowa, and then extended by Stacey Lehmann at CUNY this summer with the workbook. And you can see there's the Open Pedagogy Project, which was started at Montgomery Community College. And it supports faculty fellows in aligning their courses with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and many more. And finally, there was open asset awards. And you can see there's just some really wonderful ones. The Nursing Pharmacology textbook that came out of Chippewa Valley. We had one here from Latin America, which is an open repository. And finally, an open tool called the Manifold Scholar from CUNY. So please do go to our website. Thank you very much, Liz, for putting that in the chat window and read more about these amazing people and their projects. Well, and if I can jump in, in addition to that, during Open Education Global, each of the award recipients will have a unique space, giving you the opportunity to visit them, communicate with them, and learn a little bit about each of their projects. So look them up once you get into the venue. Thank you for that, Susan. And for those of you who are attending today or listening to this later, please consider next year when the nominations open up again in the spring, nominating either yourself or your colleagues for these awards. All right. Now I want to turn it over to Amy and Lee to tell us about the Open Education Conference coming up in just a few days. And I just wanted to mention that this year is different from the previous 15 years of the conference. There's actually, it's very community-driven. There are several committees, but including the Steering Committee, which has guided this process and reached out to the community at every step in order to produce the conference that is really by and for the community. And I'm going to stop sharing Mike's screen now so that Amy and Lee can take over. Okay. Let me get my screen going. And can everyone see my screen? Excellent. So I'm just going to start with the website and just to say a little bit about the community process. The Steering Committee was brought together by OpenStack, Spark, the University of Maryland system, and Colorado. And so those groups got together and created a process to create a Steering Committee. And the Steering Committee has grown. We have, I think we have about 12 people and you can click on the website and you can click on about and see who's on the Steering Committee. And I just want to say that we are committed to creating this conference with the community. And the second goal for the Steering Committee will be to set up a community-driven structure so that the conference will continue to be owned by the community. And so that's also part of our task. And when the conference ends and at the end of next week, we'll be turning our attention more fully to that process as well. So here's the main website page. I just, you do have to register. Once you register, it will be, it's through Eventbrite and you will then be sent an email and you will get information on how to register with Sketch. And so you'll see the program is going to be completely hosted through Sketch and through Zoom. So you'll want to go ahead and create an account for Sketch if you don't already have an account. And it's pretty user-friendly. I just want to point to a couple of things for people who haven't used Sketch. I have a feeling many of you have and are familiar with this platform. But you can see a simple overview where you can see it listed by day and by time in all the different sessions that you can join. You can come here and you can pick different view. If you want an expanded view, which gives you all of the session descriptions and you can pick a grid view and you can pick by venue. I really like the simple view. You can also come over here to the right-hand side and you can filter by date. You can filter by session type. And I want to just draw your attention here. Lee is going to talk about the different sessions but we do have asynchronous sessions and this is how you can find the asynchronous sessions. You can filter by topic. And one of the nice things about having an account is when you're signed in, you can see other attendees and you can engage and communicate with them. And let's see. I think those are all the features that I want to point out about Sketch. And so I'm going to turn it over to Lee to talk a little bit about the different session type. Awesome, wonderful, thank you. So like she was talking about, some of the synchronous versus asynchronous, we're trying to make sure that we have a lot of different opportunities for a lot of people to view in a lot of different time zones. So we kind of try to make sure and keep that in mind. So some of the synchronous options are presentations, panels, and interactive discussions and our workshops. So presentations will be 25 minutes and then the other two panels and the interactive workshops will be 55 a piece. As you notice when she was going through the different things, we have multiple things going on at the same time. So do kind of note as you're going through Sketch specifically when the time is. And if I'm correct, all of these, even though they are live, they will be recorded, is that correct, Amy? That is correct. They will be recorded and then posted later on a YouTube platform. I should also mention you can select your time zone to help you manage your schedule. And when you're signed in, you can build your own schedule. And so schedule sends you your personal calendar. And one more thing I forgot to mention is we are running every session through Zoom and we are requiring a registration. So when you click on it, you're gonna see the link for the live stream and when you click on that live stream, it's gonna ask you to enter your first name and your email. And then it will give you immediate access to the Zoom room for the live events. Wonderful, thank you. So with that kind of that knowledge, anything that you wanna make sure that you have time to interact with or ask questions or have some sort of dialogue within that presentation, then you can make sure you note that and take the live ones. Whereas you just want the information then that's something you can take if you have other things overlapping. The asynchronous ones, specifically I have highlighted for the lightning talks and showcase gallery. So when you go through, you'll be able to go through and look at any number of the lightning talks, which are 10 minutes long. And those are gonna just be a video option that you can take at any time. So for different topics, as you can see along that filter, that's a really great example of the different types of topics. Some of them that I'll highlight real quick are like open education 101, where there's either a lot of newcomers that want to have some basic information provided and answer some of those questions. Or if people just need a little bit of a refresher of some of the new terms that are being used and some other things like that. Practices, social justice and DEI, that's gonna be quite thoroughly discussed throughout the entire conference. Different strategies, we are in COVID obviously, that's affected everybody, open education, and then specifically the plenary sessions. So Amy, you wanna talk about those just a little bit? Yeah, so one of the things that we heard loud and clear from the community calls was that the community, they didn't want keynotes, they didn't wanna hear from rock stars. And we made a deliberate effort to invite diverse marginalized voices to speak. We wanna amplify those voices. And so when you do see a plenary session, you might see two speakers, and each speaker will be limited to 25 minutes and they're talk. And really we're emphasizing the questions and the exchange with those speakers. The opening and closing plenaries are designed to be interactive. And so the first plenary is gonna really focus on storytelling and there will be opportunities for people to engage in storytelling in small groups if they want to. And we've also created a venue for people who aren't wanting to be interactive and who prefer to take an observer role. So we're really trying to create opportunities for everyone to feel engaged and involved to the extent that they wanna be. And with that engagement, and I'm sure we'll probably border in on our time. So I'll just highlight a couple of options in terms of a lot of social features that have been integrated in this just to kind of mirror some of the things that we would get at that live type of community and connection and different things. So one of the aspects we'll be using is called Discord, which is an online platform where you can go in and have a lot of different types of conversations there. An early show and a late show where it'll be very much kind of like, very similar to what you'd kind of see on TV but fun, Amy's actually gonna be hosting the early show. So sign in for those. Tea time, karaoke, there's also gonna be a choose your adventure which you can go in and just kind of see what you find interesting and jump right in and jump out as you'd like. So lots of different things for people to be as active or an interactive and take in as much as they want. And then if you have any questions at the end, we'll be happy to answer any of those. And I just wanna draw your attention. If you do go to the main website and click on news, you will see a link to tips. So I'm sorry, there was one more page. So if you click on news, it's gonna open this page and you can click on tips. And this is for anyone who's attending the open ed. These are just some ideas for how you can make the most of the conference. So I won't read them to you, you can access them and they're here for you. So Una, whenever you are ready for us to take questions, we'll be ready. Okay, wonderful. I had a question. So, sketch is there kind of for our convenience but it doesn't mean that we have to use sketch. We can jump into, we could go to sketch right before a session and jump in or do we have to register? You do have to register. So you have to register for the conference. Correct. I don't think you have to sign in with sketch. I think you can click on the link and but you do then have to register for that session with Zoom. Oh, you do. Okay, so you have to register for each one. Okay, gotcha. It's gonna be an immediate process. We kind of went round and round about how, we don't wanna have barriers, we wanna be open but then we kind of came back to, we also want to be able to see who's entering their rooms and we really, we do have a code of conduct that is on our website and when you register, you have to agree to that code of conduct and we felt that would sort of give us that element, that level of being able to monitor and make sure that we are creating a safe space for everyone to engage. Okay, yeah, I understand that concern for sure. And there were some questions in the chat window and people were asking about the registration cost and Lisa said that it's 75 but there's still scholarships available. Is the early bird still available, the 75? Cause there was some talk about it going up after I think November 1st or something. You know, I should know the answer to that. I'm gonna click on register and see where that takes us. There was, I thought, I also thought that there was, it looks like it was extended to November 1st. I don't see an increase there but we do have scholarships available. So we don't want cost to be a barrier and we have been giving out quite a few scholarships. I think we'll have more information on that during the conference. So please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if cost is a barrier. Wonderful and it's really good to see that you have a $25 student fee so folks can invite their students and maybe even help them pay for that. So that's wonderful. Just to go ahead and add that's for grad students or doctoral students too. So if you have faculty or other things that would count as well. Okay, wonderful. And we had a question from Sophia. She said, how long are the sessions available for? And I'm not absolutely sure what you meant by that, Sophia. Was that how long will they be available? The recording or I'm not sure, Lee or Amy, if you understand what that question is. Well, all I can say, Amy, I don't know if you wanna take that one. Lightning rounds would be accessible during the whole conference. If things are getting uploaded to YouTube afterwards I would assume that they'd be accessible in YouTube. Is that correct, Amy? That's correct. So once the conference ends, we're gonna be migrating everything over to a YouTube platform where it will be completely open and accessible for people to view at a later date. During the conference, sessions will be post, we're gonna be trying to get those recordings up as soon as we can. It is, I can't remember, Lee, do you remember how many sessions we have? I know that we have over 1,000 attendees and that would be exciting. 150, I wanna say there's about 150 over the five days, but that's including the tea times and the early and late shows and everything. So we've got, there's a lot of information to take in on a lot of subjects and you can be as active as you'd like. Great. And yeah, thank you, Sophia, for clarifying that she was talking about the recording. So I suspect the ones that are going up on YouTube will be available indefinitely. Great. Yes, and I echo Lori Beth's comments. Thank you for all the hard work you've done. It's really exciting and it looks like Lori Beth just registered two of her newly hired student OER specialists. So, very cool. Yes, and please let me say that the effort is, it is a community effort. There are literally hundreds of people working on this. Yes, and you've held community meetings throughout this process over the last year, which have been open to everyone and I've had the pleasure of attending those. So those have been great for not only keeping people abreast of what's happening, but also asking for input on how the conferences run. And do you wanna speak a little bit about future kind of future plans? I know those are still in process, but we had a little bit of a conversation before we started the webinar about how things may evolve over time. Sure. So we are also going to be speaking about that at the conference during the wealth camp. Times are uncertain. We'd love to be able to have a conference venue and I think most people are really, really hopeful that we could have sort of a hybrid conference where we might continue to have virtual platforms available as well as a physical venue. So we do have a committee, a working committee, that's a branch of the steering committee called Future of Open, and they're working both on what's gonna happen next year and creating that structure so that the conference will continue to grow and will be continued to be a community event and driven by the community and led by the community. And we're not sure what that structure is going to look like, but that will be our next task. And I'll just add, and you might be able to add a little bit more of what this will be, but I believe it's the Friday Plenary session will be where we're asking for more community feedback, not only on how the conference went, but a lot more questions as to the future of the conference as a whole. So I definitely highly encourage for everybody to take part in that. Wonderful, and so that one is Friday at what time? It's the Friday Plenary session. I wanna say it's in the afternoon or... Eastern. Late morning, but there's only one Plenary on Friday and that's gonna be it. I know the closing is at 1 p.m. Eastern. So it's probably gonna be late morning, I would say is probably when it is then. Okay. So I know they're closing early. For those who are further west, yeah. Okay, well, that's quite reasonable. It's not, yeah, that's wonderful. All right, well, thank you so much for sharing this. This has been really helpful and we're excited to join you all next week. Really looking forward to seeing you. There it is, the future of open ed at 12 p.m. Eastern time. Oh, okay. Lovely, that won't work well. All right. On Friday the 13th. Oh yeah. It's been an interesting year. All right, and I don't know if Amy and, if Amy and Lee are gonna be around for a little bit, but we can, you can continue to enter questions if you have them in the chat window. And while we move on to our next speakers, which is Susan and Alan from Open Education Global 2020 and connecting the global open education community. And let's see, what can I say about this one? This is a worldwide conference. Okay. I will turn it over to the experts here. Yeah, the difference being that this one is global and just like you guys, we're going virtual this year, which was quite a task. We're used to being face-to-face as well, not only with our hosts, but with all of you that attend. So it's very different, but we're really excited. It hasn't been all bad going virtual. Actually, some really phenomenal things have come out of this. So we're really excited to be virtual. We do have a host, which was announced about a year and a half ago, which is Taipei Medical University. And they are still our hosts, even though we won't be there in person. But this year, we have added two co-hosts, Ekeppeth, Ontario and TU Delft, which was our previous host year before last. This was done because of the next key point was that we will be featured in three different time zones. We will start in Taipei and we will work our way westward. Delft will pick it up and then Ekeppeth, Ontario will wrap up the day. During this time, during the OE Global 20, we will have nine keynotes, really from all over the world, from all different kinds of projects. We have almost 200 sessions that people can attend during the three days of sessions, 41 countries. And right now we have almost 700 registrations, which we anticipate it going up because we know of people that are still in the process. So not only have we gone virtual, we've gone big. So we're really, really excited about kicking this off on November 17th. And at this time, I'm gonna turn it over to Alan. He is gonna be the one to give you a little bit of a tour of our conference. Thank you, Susan and also thank you, Amy and Lee for telling us about OpenEd and carrying it on. OpenEd conference was really informative in my early years and it's great that it's moved to a community format. And we're trying to do some, where we have the similar aims, like how to, you know, great conference format that people know in person, how do you make that happen online? But also I know that Susan said that within the registrations we have a lot of people who've never been to an OE Global conference, including me, this is my first one. And then also I'm thinking forward of like how will this change the conference experience? And so we've kind of taken this approach that's somewhat experimental and you'll see when I get to show you is that a lot of what we're doing is trying to make this as conversational as possible, which of course all conferences are. So we do have the sessions and where I have the program and I'll show you the site, but we're using a community platform that I'll show you in a second called Discourse, which is it's a place to build communities. It's kind of like a discussion board on steroids. We will have live sessions in Zoom. We'll have a lot of things that are asynchronous as well. But what we're really hoping is that it provides a lot of means for people to connect. So the scheduling approach we have taken is to have a lot of formal programming on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. And those again, as Susan described are gonna extend across many time zones. So that means there should be something for someone no matter where they are in the globe and they can even stay up late or get up early if they wanna catch things over in Taiwan. But also we've kind of had less structure on Tuesday, Thursday to leave room for some asynchronous activity, some workshops, some sponsor presentations. And also we set up a means where people can organize their own activities to connect, discuss with each other. So right now I'm gonna try the screen sharing but as I was listening to the conversations is like all conferences now are online. So I mean, Creative Commons was a couple of weeks ago. We got OpenEd, we got our conference. There's a bazillion conferences going on. Plus we're spending so much of our work time in this environment. So thinking about the engagement is a real interesting challenge because a lot of people are burned out by this experience. So a lot of the flexibility of these conferences where people can choose how they participate is important but I think it's also some time to give us some pause to think about how we do conferences. So I'm in my screen sharing mode right now. This is a site that we built over the summer to sort of be a community site for OE Global. We've kind of taken it over for the next couple of weeks to be the conference site. And so there are things in there that are outside the conference that you may run across. But one of the principal things we've done is we took off our navigation so we have conference stuff to help people get around. But the main conference area, and I'll stand back, there's gonna be a lot of things here. We have a lot of these different areas that we set up to organize. Yellow are generally conference information things. Blue are kind of participatory and green are sessions and I'll give you a sampling of this. But to give some sense about the way this works is once you get into one of these areas, each one of these is a topic and it's a discussion thread. So every presentation, every keynote, every announcement is potentially a discussion. And you can see the people who have been active. So I should also point out here since I'm logged in on my top right, I got my dog icon, that's my personality. But that's a little indicator of some activity that's directed at me. It's either someone replying to something I said or something that messaged me and there's another indicator someone sends me a private message. So there's many levels to communicate. But if I went into one of these, we'd enter with this great video from our host from Taipei Medical University and then people, they have entered replies. And so there's a conversation built around everything that's happening in the conference. And that's the structure that we're trying to make. And it's just starting to pick up as people coming into the site. We've been open about a week. So we could say the conference is already happening. But if we go back, as I'm clicking around way too much, to the main conference, what we call the lobby, obviously people are interested in the session. So we've got announcements, our help desk, et cetera. We have the sessions organized by the modality. So we have our keynotes. We've got our synchronous presentations anytime our asynchronous workshops and posters, another form of asynchronous. But if we were to go into, say, the live presentations, this is kind of like a busy place because it has all the ones listed and they're ordered by their most activity. It's not necessarily the way you want to find a presentation. But for every presentation, we've taken the information that came from their application, their submission. And this is the conference information. At the very top, since I'm logged in, this is pretty critical. You don't have to do any time zone calculation. We convert all the session times to your local format. So for me in central Canada, this first session here is Monday. I know it's at 12, 20 p.m. and I can sort of plan my schedule around that. And I can even sort of save sessions to my own personal schedule like we saw in the schedule tool that OpenEd has. But then when I scroll down through here, our presenters, we've asked them to sort of post any additional material about their presentation. So you find slides, videos, links. They might put out questions that they're hoping people engage with. And so Christine here has already posted a video. And then as people sort of come across her conference presentation, we hope they come back here, they might ask her some questions or say, how do I apply this? Where do I learn more information? So again, every sort of thing that's happening at the OE Global Conference is a conversation itself. That's not really the best way to organize your conference experience. So the program takes you to a more traditional chronological format. So I can filter by the particular days, we have some topics, or I can just scroll down. So this is on, now for me, it starts Sunday night at 7 p.m. This is 9 a.m. in Taiwan. You don't have to do that in my head. I don't know about you, but like world time zone, calculations can drive me kind of crazy sometimes. But we ask for the possibility, and this is only if you're logged in as a conference participant is, oh, Martin Dugamast, the Moodle guy, I wanna save that to my personal schedule. And so as you're going about and seeing different sessions, you can save them to your schedule. And I've already so far, I've got seven things that I've sort of bookmarked to sort of make sure that I wanna go attend. So we've tried to make this schedule flexible in terms of being in your own time zone format, as well as some of the features that we actually lifted a lot of things that we like from SCEDD, because I think we've used that in previous iterations. We're sending people who are new. We kind of have this open, this is a meet and greet area. So we ask people to do introductions here. You can already see the sort of level activity. Anytime that you see someone's little icon here, I can click and I can sort of see, I'll learn about IRUN, I can send a personal message. So there's lots of ways that you can connect with other people at this conference. You can follow a link and see a directory of everybody who's attending. Now, one thing that was kind of interesting that we made going into this as we're setting it up, actually all the conference information and the discussions you see, they're gonna be open so anybody can see that. The registration gets you access to the links that gets you into the Zoom rooms for the live session and it gives you the ability to participate in any of the discussions. But other than that, there was like no reason why to put a kind of a curtain over the whole conference because of this way we set it up. So this material will stay here, well, for as long as I'm working for a long time. And then we've kind of, we're thinking about these kind of activities that would happen on the days between sessions. We went through a lot of names. We came up with conversation and collaboration. So we planned a couple of things that we kind of designed. We're asking people to share their favorite recipes. We have this fun one called the OER Mix Off. We're gonna like announce like five OER pieces like media and we're gonna have a competition have people see what they can remix from them and we'll have a little bit of playful. But it's also a place where anybody at the conference can create their own sessions if they want to meet up. So we have one here, that's a project from the UK where she's like promoting interest and creating a picture book about open education. And she's got a link to her project and you can interact with Chrissy and give her suggestions on it. We've got some French speaking conference participants. We also have another area where someone said, hey, I'm looking for other people who speak Spanish to talk about what we're doing. So this is a place where like, I'm looking for people who have an interest in using HIP and nursing open textbooks. And it's a way to reach out and find people to connect with or to say like, I'm just like trying to find my way through open education or I had this project that I'd like to get some feedback on. I'm just trying to meet up other educators. So this is almost unconference like in its format. And so we hope people take advantage of this at any time during the conference and for all purposes this may live on after the event. So we're intrigued by this different kind of format. It may get really complicated and chaotic but we have a really great mix of presenters from all over the world, a lot of various topics. And so we hope that we can see, we have a lot of community college people participating mentioned in the chat that registration is closed but we actually have probably, UNA will announce we have a back door for folks. And so we have an ability to take some registrations for a little while. Is that right Susan? We have a back door to people attending this webinar. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah. UNA will be extending a special invitation to just you guys that have registered for this webinar. If you still want to register for OE Global and attend, we will make it possible with a special link just for you guys because registration is officially closed as of last week. We went ahead and officially closed it just to allow us time to make sure everyone gets in, build everybody's accounts and just make sure everybody was in there before the conference actually started. So, okay, Frank, well, sorry you missed the cutoff but you have one more opportunity. There is one little caveat is you do have to register with a credit card. No more invoicing or special waivers, just input your credit card and, but anyway, UNA will share the details after this webinar. It sounds like a late night commercial. I know it does, doesn't it? You get the glasses too. It really is just for you guys. Get the steak knives. Get the steak knives. Yeah, I wouldn't get one for you here. And actually it's Liz who will share all of that with you. Liz does much of this magic which makes everything look so seamless here. So thank you, Liz. Yeah, and if you guys have any questions you're welcome to reach out to either Alan or I regarding your registration or access or attending UweGlobal. We'll help you join us. And to answer Susan's question. Yeah, we actually did kind of turn off the open registration to use our community during the conference. That'll be back afterwards. But if you want to jump into connect to see everything that's non-conference, I can get you an account link or anybody who's interested. This is Liz, Susan and Alan, do you want to put your email or some other way for people to contact you? No, they just have to find me. No, I'll put my email in the chat. Great. All right. Sorry, I'm overly sarcastic. Since Liz and I are also part of this group we happen to know that there's some cooking shows coming up, right? I mean, as Alan and Susan were mentioning Monday, Wednesday and Friday in certain time zones is going to be very much of a typical conference presentations but Tuesdays and Thursdays are workshops and social events if you choose. And I understand that we might have some some of the cooks in the community might be contributing. We've got cooks, we've got, I mean, we do have just standby for Tuesday and Thursday. I think that's going to be ended up being a real unique opportunity. Another really interesting opportunity. I know we all have sponsors and we all have people, you know, that come to these conferences and display their wares. This year for us, our sponsors again have a very unique area just for themselves but we have really seen some excited sponsors that are really interested in communicating with you guys and showing you what they've got. So don't hesitate jumping into the sponsor area as well. I think you'll enjoy the sponsors we have this year. We also will have, we're working with Brian Mothers from the UK. We're creating some kind of fun graphic remix activities. We can quickly create some media that represent your experience at the conference. I'm looking, I'm going to set up some times during those Tuesday, Thursdays. We'll have like an open mic and we're going to record like a podcast that will sort of be live on the conference floor. So anybody who wants to sort of join into that session, we can do that. But really, we're kind of excited that people might think of their own activities. So we didn't want to necessarily like fill everything. We brainstormed a list of about a hundred things and they said, wait, that's too much. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you, Alan and Susan for sharing that. And yeah, CCCOER will have a kind of a social activity on Tuesday of that week. And we'll invite all community colleges to join us and say hi and our very talented, one of our very talented co-presidents, Lisa Young, who some of you may know from Maricopa, is going to do an air meet on that day for CCCOER and friends. So if you're interested in air meet, which is another virtual platform, join us Tuesday. So lots of fun stuff. And I know, you know, I was trying to get somebody to commit to the two cooking Chinese food. I thought we had our Taiwan hosts who might be making, maybe they'll roll wantons first. I can actually, I'm not absolutely sure that that's something in Taiwan, but it's gonna be fun. And we invite you to contribute and do something fun on those social days as well. Right. Well, that brings us just about to the end of our webinar. And we have a few slides here for if you're gonna share these slides with you. We do have one remaining webinar this fall, which will be December 9th on Tracking Your Key Program Indicators for OER Programs. It'll be a very informative webinar. Not as fun as this one, I don't think. And that's being led by Nathan Smith from Houston Community College. Same institution as Amy's. And we will have three very experienced and talented speakers. We'll have Mike Mills from Montgomery Community College who's the VP of e-learning and teaching excellence there. We will have Richard Sebastian from Achieving the Dream and we will have Michael Daley from the SUNY System. So talking about how they sustain open ed on their campuses. So please join us for that if you can. And if you're not on our email list, we always share that link here and we also have some wonderful blog posts and student impact stories. And very shortly we're gonna have another podcast, right? Alan, I don't know if you wanted to mention that wonderful podcast that you just completed with a student from Montgomery College and her professor. Are we posted yet on that one? Yes, we are. I'm just going to grab the link and couldn't do that and unmute my mic at the same time. Yes, I'll get that. Yeah, we had a very great interview with a student from Montgomery College and her anthropology professor and it was just fabulous conversation with her. About digital storytelling and also independent study on looking at indigenous artists. So it's a case of community college students doing their own independent research and it's around digital storytelling and Alan's an expert and that's not me but it's well worth a listen if you have 30 minutes. All right, well thank you everyone. Thank you so much Amy and Lee and I hope you come back another time to share with us about something in the open ed space and thank you so much Alan and Susan and Liz for running everything behind the scenes and we're looking forward to seeing you all soon.