 And, please Jane Francis, go ahead. Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone. I hope you can hear me. Hello. Yes, we can hear you. Okay. And I also want to apologize beforehand. My connectivity may not be that strong. So, my presentation is the building capacity of stakeholders on OER and material development in Nigeria, a workshop case study. And I'm going to make this presentation on behalf of my colleagues and friends. Dr. Keck Perry is in cold. Mr. Yemi from the National Open Investing of Nigeria is an instructional designer. And then Mr. Chukwe Meka is also a chief editor from the National Open Investing of Nigeria. So let me quickly run through the outline. I'm going to look at the background and the rationale of the workshop, the aims of the workshop, workshop plan, evaluation, and summary of the presentations as well as the group workshop activities and some important recommendations. So let me share the background of the workshop. It was sponsored and organized by the Commonwealth of Lening, as well as the regional training for research and research institute for distance and open learning is a cold institute that is based in at the National Open Investing of Nigeria, and the focus is on capacity building, building capacity to create assets, reuse, adapt and redistribute OER, which is also an OER area of action one. And participants were 42 of them from the Federal University of Oyakiti in Nigeria, and the dates of this workshop was February 2020. And I, my humble self was a consultant and I also enlisted my colleagues to help with the presentation because obviously I'm not an expert in all the areas of the presentation. And also with the advisor, I have the advisors, Keck from COVE and Professor Patrick from Retreater. And the statement of the work was for us to support the Federal University of Oyakiti in the material development workshop as well as provide insight on OER. And we're also encouraged to re-institute a pre and process questionnaire, as well as cover pedagogical issues of open and distance learning, provide overview of OER and include interactive sessions. Can you see hear me? No problem Francis, it's going very well. Yes. Okay. Thank you. And the ultimate goal really is to assist the Federal University in achieving accreditation from the National University Commission, because it's a single mode institution that is yearning to go towards the dual mode, providing online education as well as a face-to-face learning. So these are the participants. And the workshop plan, basically we drew up a plan that will assist us in the workshop and it is about, you know, naturally we started with the pre-workshop assessment. We also check the expectations for the participants expected from the workshop. We had a group formation and also summary of the presentations were an overview of OER, then material development in open and distance learning, pedagogical issues in material development, overview of OER, designing and inclusive open educational resources, as well as the search tools in selecting appropriate OER. So the pre-workshop evaluation basically was to inform us on how workshop activities may be structured, because we had our proposed activity, but we need to also fill the pause of the participants. And it helped us to understand exactly what they want to learn. And most some of them from the response, they want to know about to improve general knowledge and capacity about open educational resources and how to develop OER modules, and how OER relates to distance education. Okay. And also learn about open and distance learning, because this is a new institution that wants to kickstart their open and distance learning institute in order to go dwell more. And the pre also, the second questions we asked for the pre-workshop evaluation was what kind of experience have you had in the area of OER and material development, and overall range from no experience to some sort of experience. And while specific overhead in the evaluation was some noted that they have gone through some courses online about OER. They also noted that they have a bit of experience in open licensing, but not trained on how to develop OER, but some have also learned on how to download materials from online for use. So these are some of the expectations. Before we started the workshop, we wanted to check their insight, their level of knowledge on open and distance learning. Okay. It's interesting because, you know, in the definition of ODA, some felt that ODA gives, you know, the practitioners, the students, the teachers and everybody, you know, improved access to higher education, flexibility in learning. And what I find most interesting is the three groups, because we had to divide them into three groups to be able to manage the group activities. The three groups reflected no industrial strike. In Nigeria, unfortunately, the public funded institutions, we usually have the strike action is almost a common place now. As I speak, students, learners are at home because the lecturers have been on strike for the past eight months. And for couple with the complications of COVID-19. So they are excited that with the open and distance learning, it gives opportunity for students to learn without actually disruption in their studies. Another thing I also find interesting, that's from the knowledge is that it improves access and equity in education. So it's hard for me that the participant had a vague idea what's open and distance learning is all about. So specifically going to the presentations we provided, we presented an overview of open and distance learning, stressing the importance of SDG4, as well as a simple definition of open and distance learning, which they had actually provided in their expectations. And we also stress the philosophy of ODL, the ability to create, provide lifelong learning, and also flexibility. And this is arguably the biggest challenge because our understanding of flexible learning is constantly changing. Another presentation was on material development in ODL. The instructional designers from the co facilitators were able to put the participants through the approaches in material development, the development from scratch, adaptation, adoption, and so on, as well as structures of course material. Another presentation is on pedagogical issues regarding material development. They looked at language and style, stressing, really stressing on the use of gender sensitive language in material development. They also looked at the content presentation, but these are new entrants in open and distance learning, and their objective was to be able to design, develop, and write their materials, and also ultimately open, make the materials OER. So we had to put them through the content presentation, the use of access device and illustrative design, and so on. Also, we gave them an overview, presented an overview of OER. This was also hands on with the definitions, the five hours, the open licenses, the types of licensing, which they found a bit complicated, but with group interactions and feedback, we were able to understand it quite a bit. And further recommendations, further discussions, further recommendations of OER, starting from the previous to the more recent one, and specifically the areas of action, and how to select, adapt, and distribute open educational resources. So another presentation was on material development in ODR, the issues of quality assurance, publishing, and SDG, and dream publishing. They were also made to understand that, you know, there's generally a proper section regarding open learning and so on, and hence the need to have quality assurance mechanisms and procedures in material development. Okay. And this could be achieved through the selection of the right course team, the adapt, making sure that the house style is up to date, and the use of checklists and so on. Then, furthering on the dream publishing, we highlighted the SDG4, the prayers of SDG4, which is, which is a protection of life and land, and noted that the dream publishing recommends the adoption of best available technique and best environmental practices, taking into account the complete lifecycle of a product from design to production, distribution, use, reuse, and end of life. Then we quickly run through the key issues in reusing, redesigning, and repurposing existing OER, which was a relevant accuracy, production for spare quality, accessibility, interactivity, licensing, and so on. Then the instructional designer also presented an overview of some of the tools, online tools that participants could utilize in, you know, searching for open OER documents. So at the end of the workshop, we can go to you. Can you hear me? Yeah, okay. Okay, okay, my time is up. Now you can finish this slide, please. Okay, we checked the unfinished businesses, and they also confirmed that we were able to meet most of the expectations, and this is a part of the post-workshop assessment where they extend the workshop achieve its program objective, which was mostly indicated mostly, and also all categories were deemed useful, demonstrating a lot of growth in the workshop, and how often would you want this workshop? The more that more workshops are needed, that's from the response then, but often does not happen, and this is about building political will, and changing the culture of the university, and the vice chancellor of the university, the federal university was well positioned, which was an active position to embrace this, and this could also be exacerbated by COVID-19. Then we had recommendations, building political will, sustaining practice, achieving results that are also recognized and rewarded in some form, sharing, searching, never being finished, not satisfied. Jane Francis. Yeah, Jane Francis, we have a question. Thank you. Okay, okay. All right. Jane Francis, what are the next steps? How do you keep building on all this great work? What are you going to do next? Hello? Hello, Jane Francis. One of the questions are the next steps in this approach. How do you keep building on all this great work? Yeah, this workshop is actually a case study from the workshop we had with the university, and it was sponsored, coordinated by Kohl and the Retreater. This is actually a fourth workshop from Retreater, and where the Retreater usually through the common way of learning through Retreater, train, provide training in open educational resources as well as OGL to universities. Okay, so the next step is we had a follow-up, because this training took place in February, but we had a follow-up with online meetings, because at the end of the day, the participants were actually encouraged to develop their materials, which is ongoing, and there is already a follow-up on the activity. So far, it's ongoing actually, and ultimately they want to get accreditation for the Distance Learning Institute. Okay. Well, Jane Francis, thank you very much for this great presentation. Stop recording, please.