 Thank you everyone for attending our conference. What a closing and what a week in order for us to start our closing we will have the use of the Mentimeter just to get your overall viewpoint and reference to our conference. Our first question asked, where are you joining us from. So we know that we asked you this in the first part of our conference where we had an attendee map, but we will really like to give a overall viewpoint in reference to where everybody's coming from, and hopefully give them a great shout out so we have California and Texas of course, always representing. We have British Columbia, the Czech Republic. And as we said before in our opening that OER is most definitely global. So, speaking of globalization. We also are going to be looking at Alberta, Canada, we have Hawaii. Looked like I saw someone else on there that Oh, the Coast Terries did I see that yeah. So with that being said, we're going to go to our next slide, which will ask you thank you guys for this participation. What is one thing you got out of this conference. I know that we had a lot going on this week and a lot to absorb. So if you just can like just breathe in and think back and just let us know what did you get out of this conference new resources, ideas, energy that's great. Take that energy and continue to rise. I see a lot of energy. This keynote it was amazing wasn't it inspiration which I hope you got from this keynote as well focus on equity of friends I know the social aspect was awesome. You had Mock Tels last night you had good but with Rachel it was just been amazing community experiences for student and faculty our student panel on Monday was simply amazing. So you guys really are receiving a lot that's ideas about open pedagogy. Again pedagogy continues to improve and evolve totally depending upon your, your audience and your class open pedagogy will continue to evolve. So this is great. Connecting with so many amazing peers. Yes, we do have a wonderful community don't we. And our last question that we're going to ask of you is, what is one action because remember what our theme is rise to action, largest small, are you going to take to make education more open and equitable. To mobilize our community. Try to build on the advocacy at your campus remember again guys we're just taking this one step at a time but our goal and our challenge is to rise is to most definitely spread the word about our spread the word at our institution. In our community, and outside of our community we need to bring new people and to let them know exactly what's going on in order for us to grow connect with Falcon and staff of color. We're working on integrating open pedagogy. Again, we got this again in reference to bringing in others very good this is exactly what we're looking for to implement a plan of action. Yes, we have to. I hope some of you may be visual you write it down. Once you cross it off you feel a sense of accomplishment. That's great. Keep being fabulous. That's what we are here in this community. Promote OER. That's great. All right, wonderful. Thank you again for those comments this these comments will be saved in order for us to compile them and then get some information around off back to you in reference to your questions that were that were asked today. Again, I want to reiterate what a closing and a week. On behalf of the board and closing our conference we would like to thank each of you for making this year's conference are a rememberable one with so many amazing workshops presented by and addressing the interests of our community. Our community which consists of faculty, students, librarians, administrators, instructional designers and so many other collaborators were in attendance this week. Utilizing our attending map, we had speakers and attendees from around the world. And you just saw that from your mentee. From the likes of Peru, Denmark, Canada, Pakistan, Tuscany, Idaho, Hawaii, New York, Canada, and many other places. So if you think you missed any of these memories or just want to relive them again. The recordings are currently available to you. We hope that you created memories not only from the workshop, which includes the plenaries, which were orchestrated by students, feminist ecologists and community leader. But we were able to create memories as social activities such as the Kahoo and mocktails and many others during the week. We hope during your attendance, you have the opportunity to think how you will rise to action in our community. We hope you will join us at the reception that follows our closing and let us know what your plans are to continue to rise, and also any ideas of thoughts pertaining to this week conference and next years as well. Our open at conference 2022 closing will now come to it will continue as you will hear remarks from other board members. I will now pass the baton to Amanda Lawson. I think I'd know where the video button was. Hi everybody, before we move into our formal thank yous to the folks who've made this conference possible. I'd just like to offer a few words of reflection about this year's conference. I've been a part of the planning process for the conference since 2020. And this year I believe we've really hit our stride, our theme rise to action and commitment to being as inclusive as possible, led to a program where the conference strategic vision was holistically represented throughout all the sessions that I attended this week. I kicked off my week with the student plenary that set the tone for how central students are to the action that we take in our work, and the impact the open that open education can have on their lives. A theme that I saw repeated in sessions on open pedagogy, ungrading and program. There's also space for practitioners to come together and be vulnerable and share how we do the work, how lonely it can be at times, and how much we turn to each other for support. This is one of the debrief sessions how we felt about the conference so far, I could think of only one word, home. This year felt like a homecoming to me, and I'm leaving with a well that's been refilled. And while we can and should always strive to make the conference more inclusive and more transparent. This year's conference was incredible. I can't wait to revisit the sessions that I attended to implement ideas that I've learned into my work and watch sessions I didn't get through throughout the rest of the year for sustained professional development. I am immensely grateful for the community volunteers and organizers who continue to champion this conference every year. I hope that you leave inspired and ready to decide how you'll rise to action in your work over the next year. Over to you Susan. Thank you, Amanda. So we want to take time now to acknowledge and appreciate the folks who volunteered their time over the summer and in the weeks leading up to the conference. As someone who's relatively new to this community. I can say that I've been really impressed by the dedication of our volunteers. And just want to acknowledge, as others have said that the conference absolutely would not happen without them. And just a big thank you to everyone who participated in the initial review of proposals. This is a big lift and it's so valuable to have multiple perspectives as part of that process. Next, I want to thank our video reviewers. These folks made sure that all of the pre recorded sessions were accessible. And so thank you for the time you spent previewing those. And on behalf of myself and the other co-chair of the program committee, Alita, part, part of pseudo, part of pseudo, sorry Alita. I want to say thank you to our small but mighty team who put in many hours of work, reviewing proposals and helping to finalize the program for what I hope was a rich learning experience for each of you. Thank you program committee. And I will pass it to Stephanie. Thank you, Susan. Like to also thank the engagement committee. The engagement committee is extremely important and made sure this conference is both fun interactive and has lots of social and networking opportunities. This is no easy task with a virtual conference. So thank you to the engagement committee. Great work everybody. Next slide please. And we would also like to thank our session hosts, people who run the sessions admit the attendees start the recording and make sure the conference code of conduct is upheld. This event could not run smoothly without our session hosts, many of whom are board members but also many volunteers. We really appreciate their time and commitment. And now I will hone it over to Haley. All right, hi everyone. I would just hop over to the next slide perfect my name is Haley I'm the open education project manager at spark and I've had the immense pleasure of being able to support the board over the last year. I've been given about a minute to sum up my gratitude for this group of individuals and I'm not sure how I'm going to do that but I'll try my best. I think the people on your screen has like really stepped up in a way that I honestly can't even begin to describe over the last year. The conferences at a very sort of pivotal moment where you know there are many decisions to be made about the strategic future. And each of these board members have given so much of their time and energy to address these questions. And the commitment to this work comes through in the way that they continue to show up week after week at our meetings, and so on they've been putting in the work, you know, not just in the weeks leading up to this but over the past year. And give a special shout out to Rachel and Tonja who led our community engagement committee to Susan and Alita who did the same with our program planning committee to Sam and Rachel who have really spearheaded our finance work, and to Stephanie for fearlessly leading our board meetings. But of course, you know every single person on the screen has really really showed up in a way that brings their lived experience and expertise to make the conference what it is today so thank you so much to all of you. It's been an absolute pleasure, and I can't wait to see where the board leads the conference next year. So I'll go ahead and turn it over to Rachel now. Thank you, everyone. We would like to thank our conference team. Without them this could not have happened the people at spark. Specifically, Aasha law crystal business are Kim Hensie and from spark Aisha Brianna Haley, Nicole, we appreciate you all so much. We'd also like to thank our sponsors, the Hewlett Foundation, the Mickelson 20 million minds foundation, open stacks and rice without all of you. This conference would not have been possible and we appreciate you so so much. Thank you. Now I'm going to go ahead and pass it on to Brianna, who will discuss passing the torch. Thanks so much Rachel. Hi everyone I'm Brianna I'm the open education conference manager. I'm going to start this year's conference and look ahead to next year 2023. I just wanted to take a minute to remind everyone about the upcoming election. The open ed conference is looking for six new members to serve on the board of directors. Those new members will serve for a two year term starting in January 2023. So if you're interested please remember to nominate yourself by the deadline which is October 28. So go ahead and drop that link in the chat if any of you are interested we've got a whole FAQ page on our website. And now I will pass the mic over to Sam. Thank you all and I also want to echo Amanda, I feel like I'm home when I'm here and part of this group. I have just it's been a wonderful heartwarming and filling week. I do want to encourage all of you to complete the survey for next year's conference and carrying out your reflections. We really really want to hear from you so that we can continue to make this conference really focus on your needs your desires and really focused on the community the link to the survey form is in the chat. And so I really want to thank you all and say please please please let us know what you're thinking. There is some conversation about what next year's conference will be like I know I see in the chat people are doing for or asking for more virtual, and those who would like us to be a real person we are considering trying to figure out how do we do both those things or do all of those things, both virtual and in person so please make sure that you fill out your survey and let us know what you think. I'm going to hand this over to Tanya for our final goodbyes, except for if you come to the reception after we'll see you there. Thank you Sam. Again, on behalf of the board. It has been an honor serving you for the open ed conference 2022 rise to action. If you would like to network or have additional comments or questions and Sam just stated, please join us for the closing reception to continue to network. Until then, see you next year as we continue to rise. Thank you.