 Thank you. Welcome everybody to our annual December mixer. We started this about I'm going to say that four years ago now. And it's really an opportunity for us just to have some informal conversations. Let's folks ask questions and talk a little bit about the upcoming year and the past year. So here's our agenda. A little welcome in a moment here from Sue and Lisa. And then we want to celebrate our new members. And I'm not sure too many were able to make it. But we'll definitely want to tell you who they are and then let them speak up if they're here. And then really we just want to spend time hearing from you and what's been going on and you know what are your hopes and challenges. And then we just have we had some questions posted in our padlet. And so we'll talk about those because we have a really stellar set of experts on online here to answer questions and have a discussion and then a little additional information about next year. So Lisa and Sue I want to turn this over to you. Hello I'm Lisa. Nice to see so many of you on the video. I'm glad to have you all here. We just wanted to say hello and it's hard to believe that it's December. It was just spring break and the world was normal. But we've all done such awesome work together to serve our students and to work on the open education movement. And so it's really to see how we've all come together how we shared how we collaborated and how we've really reached out to make our materials open and available and inclusive is just awesome. And so I'm really just really proud of the work that you've all done this year. And personally I just want to wish you a happy holidays. I'm going to pass it over to Sue. Hi everyone. Sue Tash in here. Yeah I mean really just building on what Lisa said the past nine months for me has been a little bit of a blur probably like a lot of you. We've put 281 new courses online this year so working with faculty to get their courses. But I guess the exciting part about that related to open education has been the sharing and also the faculty that you know really weren't interested before because of the like digital format of open ed resources now they're really a lot more interested. I'm getting a lot more requests you know to help people find materials for their courses. So it's been although very challenging overwhelming at times. Also I think it's opened up a lot of new opportunities. So I'm excited about you know once things maybe we have time to breathe and focus we'll be able to you know really start promoting OER in different ways. So welcome everyone. Welcome our new members and old members and we're excited to hopefully see you in person again sometime soon. I don't know. Sue if you guys have decided on the Massachusetts conference the northeast will that be virtual? Yeah we are actually having a meeting about it next week so I think it will be virtual probably. Yeah yeah hoping hoping by the summer everyone who wants the vaccine can get it but that it takes a while for that to really be. Well thank you very much. I just do want to call out our new members in 2020 and if any of you are here I know we have at least one. Love to have you say a few words. So Angelina College in Texas and I don't know our Christopher or Sarah able to join us today. Now I didn't think they registered so I think they're buried in their end of end of semester work and I know I heard from Hans Hans I'm sorry at Moraine Park Technical and he's the busy doing interviews but we're very pleased to have had two Wisconsin colleges join us both Moraine Park and Waukesha I hope I got that right. Cindy'll correct me if I got it wrong Waukesha. It's close Waukesha. Waukesha turn and I always that's okay that's okay. I'm gonna have to now use that speaker thing okay well yeah yeah so welcome to both of them. Sunny Geneseo joined us so as well which is one of the state universities in New York Sunny OER services has been a longtime member of ours and in fact there will be one of the speakers at our webinar next week will be Michael Daly from No Relation Michael Daly from SUNY OER services. We also had Los Angeles Southwest College join us up Parisa are you on? Yes I'm here. Hi would you like to say a few words about OER? Sure of course yes thank you good afternoon my name is Parisa Samoy and I apologize for not having my camera on because I'm having internet issues so I don't want to get disconnected. I am a librarian at Los Angeles Southwest College and I have been the liaison OER liaison for the past two years we just recently became the member of OER Global and we are since pandemic we believe it or not we have been doing a lot of work so I was very surprised to see that our faculty are actually you know working on OER and they are more interested in closing the equity and access gap so I was very happy and I was very surprised at the same time so I don't know what I'm supposed to say I'm sorry. Yeah that's that's one that's plenty and that's wonderful Parisa they hear that and Parisa is her college is one of it's nine community colleges right within the Los Angeles Community College District so it is our largest district in California which is a very large community college system they have about 115 colleges so yeah so thank you for sharing that but also Southeast Arkansas Community College joined us and I don't know if Megan is here she's their instructional designer there and they're relatively new to OER but they had some really ambitious plans when I talked with them over the summer. North Dakota State College of Science also became a member they were our first member in North Dakota which also the Southeast Arkansas was our first one in Arkansas so really excited to get members in both of those states and I have a feeling Patricia is not with us she's the library director there at North Dakota she was out of the office until yesterday so and finally we have a brand new college which is in the process of becoming a member they're a Massachusetts College Bunker Hill Community College and I think we have their instructional design OER person here and I I'm not sure how to pronounce your name so I don't want to miss say it. It's pronounced Kate it's Scott Staelic. Yeah it's Kate. Yeah it's Kate. Wonderful thank you. My official title is Senior Special Programs Coordinator for Digital Learning on OER and we have grown out our OER program we've been gone through couple of different changes in how we use our course flagging system so we've changed from one system to now a new system that is better at helping faculty identify their OER courses and we have a few initiatives going on which seem to be very successful right now and trying to get faculty to use OER material and I was really excited to find out that we have our computer technology department using OER now so which is really great. Super and does anyone have questions for either Kate or Parisa? Kate I had a quick question for you. You mentioned that you're using a new course writing system and I may have misheard you. Could you? Okay course flagging system so how students find OER in our in what we call a self-service system and it used to be a very convoluted thing where you submit a course and they get a designation in their course name and we found that it was very tricky to do so we just reflagged everything and now it's not a quite a large process if we're going to flag something for OER and at the last minute another faculty member comes in and they're using published content we can easily take that old OER designation off so the students aren't flustered. Yeah that's great and a lot of colleges have gone through difficult times with that in in California because there's different enrollment systems I know there's been just it's been a continuum and we've been legislatively mandated to provide that since January of 2018. We also had a fee system for about three semesters and it didn't work it just took too much time to check everything and it was just it was just really kind of difficult to manage all the way around so we did away with that as well so and hopefully with all these changes that will get more faculty more students looking for OER and we also are doing partnership with our student government too so that is a phenomenal thing our student trustee is an advocate for OER and she just really has learned about OER in the last year and and so it it was really kind of an eye-opening experience when we were talking about you know a lot of students still don't know about OER still don't understand what it is so it's just getting the message out there to not only students so they can understand it but to faculty as well. That's really impressive and I yeah we in fact we do work with students from time to time to share those OER journeys and so that cake that's something that perhaps your student government advocate for OER might want to participate in so please consider that wonderful all right now Cindy I think you're gonna just kind of lead around Robin with folks and just everyone is welcome to share what's happening a little status because we have a pretty unstructured meeting and so yep and I kind of this is going to be completely random I just wrote down people's names as they kind of popped in just kind of give an update of maybe kind of projects that are going on how is it going I know things have been kind of crazy this year so Dave are you still on and if you're on if you could just kind of give an update of how it's going there's things that you've been working on we'd love to hear from you. Finishing chewing. I'm that way to our waitress said um interrupted you in your meal I'm sorry. I know quite all right amazing timing um I am just feeling like I'm on empty I think I share that with a lot of folks and and really limping to the end of this of this term but I am encouraged um there continues to be a number of um positive progression aspects of OER on my campus at Grossmont College in San Diego and and I'm continuing to work in an opportunity with the California Community College Statewide Academic Senate and and that group is doing some amazing things um so um more to come I think as we um we were brainstorming some goals both locally and statewide um in some various meetings in the last couple of weeks and um I think there was a consensus that we're just trying to to get to the finish line and then really jump back in uh in January. Thank you for sharing I think a lot of people are feeling that um Andrea are you still on? Yes I am um thank you so I'm with Salt Lake Community College and it fills um I can echo echo what Dave was saying I think many of us are feeling um ready for the next year um and maybe perhaps a little break so at Salt Lake Community College we've been working um the primary goals we've been working around right now um I chair the open SLCC advisory committee and our primary goals right now are to help we started a publishing program a small publishing program um and it's uh we're trying to add structure into that right now into that process um we have a workflow that we use and so we're adding the support pieces into that um so that's part of what we're working on the committee we're also working on um strategies for um including um equity diversity inclusion into our OER initiative and along with that um we are um attempting to create a faculty mentoring program um to help uh faculty interested in authoring walk through the the whole process of start to finish publication um I'm trying to think there's there's one more thing that we're kind of looking into different ways to maybe be more productive and research um but we haven't we haven't gotten there yet so we're those are just a few um key projects so that are in our on our plate right now so thank you yeah thank you for sharing sounds like you've been busy yes Judith are you still on yeah Cindy although I apologize that I have to jump off it just a bit before 230 for another meeting but but I do want to say that you know I I empathize with Andrew and Dave so much um but one thing that we serve all Texas public community colleges and what we've been hearing from them is a frustration that the grant programs that are going on right now including both federal and state for Texas are given you know are are allocating funds for big projects which generally are for complete courses all the way up to zero textbook cost degrees and the um you know the the application process is quite difficult and complicated and time consuming as are the projects so one thing that we're considering and I'm hoping to do this within the next week or two to announce it is some small grants that we would offer to our member colleges simply for kind of uh priming the pump for just you know creating one assessment or one module or just something to get people get their feet wet and and especially for faculty and IDs and librarians who haven't had a chance to create OER just to get their feet wet and get an idea of what that's like and then we'll require those to be contributed to our new state repository so stay tuned that's what we're we're going to hopefully be diving into soon it's great to see everybody thank you you that actually sounds like a great project and we really great way to get people excited and started in it um yeah I definitely agree that big projects are scare people yes Dave looks like you oh you're clapping I'm not used to zoom we don't use zoom at our college Mike are you still on I am thank you so we have a couple of things going on we're continuing our work with our fellowship that connects renewable assignments with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and continue to partner with Quantlin Polytech in British Columbia and Maricopa to facilitate that work and then the new initiative that we're focusing on is using OER to help decolonize the curriculum and bring in an opportunity for our faculty to bring in different voices into the classroom with the content so that is just getting started but I think we have some faculty who are interested in in the project and and I'll I'll keep you posted as to how we progress that sounds like some amazing work I love the way that open it is evolving into some of this um say to just see what you get what you guys are doing um Rodney are you still on I am I'm still on um what have we been doing this year um uh well we're slightly progressing towards some z-type degrees I I guess I should tell you where I am I'm at Central Carolina Community College in uh North Carolina so in the epicenter North Carolina um we started doing OER probably about three or four years ago where we um it was driven really by some of our dual enrollment classes our our counties that we serve provide textbooks for high school students and psych and social we're killing them in the exorbitant cost of what they're having to pay for their high school students to buy textbooks all the time so we approached some instructors about developing some courses for OER um to teach some via OER and so that's where we started and in the past year I've gotten approval from our admin to try to fund enough faculty to move towards z-degrees for both our associate in arts and our associate science programs um and that's going pretty well we're making some major strides so we've pulled you know the top courses from all those programs um to see where we need to you know we'll start at the top um unfortunately last year I funded some people to develop our first two English courses so English 111 and 112 and then the department chair came to me a few months after we'd paid people to develop them and they were supposed to be implementing them and said oh well the faculty voted and we're not going to use OER we're going to do something else and I'm like we just paid you to do this and so we've had some setbacks but um we're slowly moving towards a much bigger OER presence on campus um last year we hosted a statewide OER conference in January before um COVID hit and uh it was very successful and so we our state is um our community college system is very probably much less system-centric and so each individual college kind of takes on a role and so there's really no guidance from our system office and so it's been a real frustration because we have some really good articulation agreements between the community college system and the state system uh the university system but they're not really I don't know it would be a perfect avenue to look at OER but they're really not going to do that anytime in the near future so it's each individual college having to step up and do all this work on their own so but I'm in charge of our Center for Teaching and Learning and so I get to give out money to people that want to do implement OER in their course and so it's actually kind of a good thing for me so it's good to see um we're moving beyond just the cost savings to the students and now starting to really focus more on our faculty and how OER can help them become better instructors as well so that's that's the next step that we're taking is to start working with our faculty on androgogy in their classes and and how this is going to improve their courses so it sounds like some great work and it was Oona and I were just having a discussion a week before last during OE Global about dual enrollment and how that's really upping the ante with with OER and getting that pushed forward so really a big player with it so yep Tina yes I'm calling on you Tina you are up well the highlight of our fall was having Cindy come and do uh to do a webinar for the uh OER interest group with Michigan Academic Library Association about inclusive access or um forced purchase which was very informative so uh highly recommend uh that was a good thing and so in Michigan we uh they're the group um that has kind of helped us stay organized or keep us organized or focused has been the Michigan Colleges online and we have a steering committee of a bunch of just people from all the Michigan Community Colleges who are interested in OER and working on it um and this group decided that we would apply for the um Department of Ed grant um and the the the dream is to create help all of our colleges get to a z degree by um uh by developing course shells in the four different LMSs that we all use and um for all of the the gen ed courses um and so these are all colleges that don't have grant writing programs or grant writing people hired you know so uh the librarians and the instructional designers and everybody was scrambling to try to put this together I think it looks great um but we all agreed that even if we don't get the grant which we probably won't um even if we don't get it uh we will use the work that we have done so far um to find other money for uh to help support this um and and work on it as best we can without without uh huge funding so I'm really excited about that and and we went through everybody's courses and um looked at you know some of them are using low cost a lot of them we well we're using low cost materials under 40 dollars but trying to find the ones who that are actually free um that's that are using all free materials um and so it was we it was a matter of doing kind of an inventory of what we were offering and um what we need to complete degrees so we're waiting to hear about that and um we'll either be organizing to get a big grant or we'll be organizing to find a different way to do it but I feel like um it was a bunch of people who came together and are interested and and that was very exciting to see um let's see what else oh right now um uh I'm working with Carl Wecley at Michigan College's online to organize faculty conversations we've done this twice before we skipped last year but um each Friday in January and February we're going to have several between one and three um Michigan Community College faculty who are teaching with OER in a particular and in a particular subject uh uh just going to do an informal lunchtime conversation about how they got there what they chose what have been the issues what have been the good things so that anybody who is kind of thinking about it will have an opportunity to um just ask questions of people who are who are are already doing it um and we that we found that um it's going to be interesting to see how much interest we get but um it seems like because of the pandemic and because everybody moved online that there are more and more people who are interested in using OER but like all of you say they don't have the time um and so we'll we'll just keep working at it but I I'm really hopeful that those conversations and there in sociology philosophy uh composition we have one in developmental English and one in welding um so and eight all together a wide range of topics so that's what's happening in Michigan sounds like you're going to be busy yes um okay Tom Tom are you still here hi everyone my name is Tom too I am an instructional designer from Florida virtual campus FLVC in Tallahassee Florida I am in for level calming stars our director of digital services and OER who is the official FLVC representative to the OER I want to keep you updated that a lot of things have happened in the past five months since the Florida governor's veto of funding for the complete Florida programs in June it was absolutely a very very difficult time for us and we really appreciate all the kind support from our wonderful OER community thank you so much Una leads and many other folks so starting from yesterday December 1st 2020 FLVC officially became an auxiliary of Florida State University so our commitment to open education OER and affordable education what is and will always be here thank you thanks Tom just let us know what we can do to help and we'll be there to support you and Ted are you here yeah I'm Ted I'm from Roxbury Community College Boston, Mississippi same as the zoo and but locally it means for my college now we finish we closed the application for OER for spring semesters and then we can leave you application and give award to applicants and we plan to provide the workshops like a series hiding looking for like a OER ambassadors like the the instructor who like a crew in OER things and then we're gonna pull wide workshop like a series like if you're gonna focus on open pedagogy and EDI equity diversity and inclusiveness in the content that's our plan for Roxbury Community College thank you Ted I think I had gotten everybody if for some reason I missed you please don't hesitate to speak up I didn't intentionally mean it hey Cindy this is Dave again you didn't miss me but I think my lunch was impeding with my brain power so I'm just including a short addendum locally we have been trying to streamline the process of identifying zero textbook cost sections many of which use OER not all of them but also now trying to incorporate a new system that would vet self-identified OER sources to ensure that they're actually OER with proper licensing and that one came about because during the pandemic we had faculty who were trying to save costs for students and you know hopefully unknowingly I think we realized that they ended up using some pirated links that were we're out there for copyrighted sources so I don't think that's unique to us but we are trying to now put in something to to make sure that everything is the way that it is supposed to go yeah thanks for sharing I think I don't think that's unique to you I do think that that that is a thing anybody else have anything to share otherwise I will pass it back to Una okay Cindy you didn't give us your update did you oh um yeah I guess that shows you where my brain's at um like everybody else um just trying to make it to the finish line um our main our major update I guess this year is what we've really been trying to do is work on giving a package approach to faculty um from a start to finish perspective with their with with OER or open education from a my dog sorry my dog is bothering me um from a finding a resource to adapting a resource to actually creating a whole I create a whole course now with our faculty so I'm a team lead on their course design I actually create the course within our LMS for them to help them use like open pedagogy within their course I help them redesign their assessments to get away from all of that publisher content that they used to do we're creating I'm creating h5p activities so that hopefully when h5p gets their hub open I can export them out for other people to use so now we're creating almost like a whole open education package for faculty so it's not anymore just the textbook or the resource it's a whole package that they're getting now um with a course um so we started doing that this year and it's fairly successful at least the first couple of bed um and it's actually a lot of fun to work with um faculty members from start to finish on the course um and seeing students actually really enjoy taking these courses so um that's I guess our big big thing that we've been working on this year is that whole package deal now uh for faculty thank you Cindy and I know at least several folks who are on the line today um have told me about an effort in their state to do similar things to add those ancillary pieces that um faculty have really come to depend on and it makes the change for them much easier well wow that's uh really really exciting updates from all of you thank you um you know I asked people to post questions in the padlet and we did get well we got a couple of questions and I think I know who put these in here they were not from people new to OER which usually our new member meeting is really more focused on that although I know that Kate is not new to OER I know she's been doing this for at least four years maybe longer uh so and we didn't get any of our newer our members who are newer to OER joining us today but I thought maybe we would take one of these questions um and I'm going to read it to you because I'm sorry I'm a little challenged with zoom um one of the I'm going to take just the top one and see if anyone has any feedback before we just have a few sort of little CCC OER updates at the end that is that I'd like to share if we can before the end of the meeting um or you can always look at the slides but and so the question I that was posted here is with COVID showing that remote work can be just as productive as on campus many may choose to work from home even after this is over I've heard that from a few people as well what are some innovative ways to reach out to people regarding open education as we rethink how to get them on board so we're not gonna perhaps that's and I don't is the person who posted that here I think that person left you know that was me oh that was you Cindy oh wonderful then great I'm sorry I thought that was Lisa don't ask me why no that was me why did you lead that discussion then because of my I was wondering um if you were trying to get at the fact that there won't be in-person workshops maybe or maybe a lot harder to get people together in order to well I think not just getting people together but I'm just thinking it's so before I was able well one I know I'll primarily probably be working at home or two even when I am on campus faculty are not going to be on campus because they're going to be working at home and I can't just hop in somebody's office and be like corner them and be like this is why you need to use this and we're not going to be having you know workshops on campus and even if we do faculty aren't going to be there I I don't think we're going to be having as much in-person meetings or in-person contact even when this subsides so how do we do that or how do we give our elevator pitches when nobody's going to be in an elevator great question and people can easily delete emails it's how do we do those things this is Dave again that that the elevator pitch really resonates with me I think you may be having similar discussions we we realized a couple of months into the pandemic that the conversations that took place by the water cooler or the kitchen or when you run into a colleague when you're on your way from one meeting to the next were not happening and someone estimated you know that seemed to be about a fifth or a fourth of the work that they used to be produced if you if you try to substitute email in place of that it it it just not only is it not the same but but I think there's such a loss of that previous environment where those elevator pitches or running into someone and being able to convince them that budget should be spent for this for me at least it's so much more difficult to do that in a now more formal way with with a paper tray or an electronic paper trail and and and without tone so we're really struggling with that I think it's a good question and it's been a struggle on our campus as well a couple of things that we've been doing is doing for instance for OER open access week we had open sessions for faculty to come in and ask questions and explore different things like copyright so you get them in for one thing and you talk about the elephant in the room and that's OER or I'm also part of the academic in distance ed department and when I work with faculty and someone says oh I have this question about material in my class I find a foothold there I also reach out to the department heads the deans build strong relationships with them in order to get into department meetings and I know that time is precious in them so you want to make sure that you're you're elevated pitches right on the money for those so those are some of the things that we've been doing and also trying to get that one person in that department that you know is going to be your advocate in kind of work with them a couple of times and figure out how to get them involved in the promotion of OER. I love those ideas Kate around into really integrating the open into other areas that are dare I say mandatory so and making sure that open education is part of those presentations as well yeah because it's important we have our our provost and our VP and our president always at the end saying if you need help with OER just reach out to Kate DeVito she will help you with all your OER needs I thought at first I was going to get an avalanche of emails but I haven't but I want to and so yeah it's getting space on your college websites getting you know especially if you can get like see if there's any social time when you can get together with some of the departments and kind of talk about it and say hey listen you know I have a great idea do some things and you can probably promote some events and get with like you know this this year we picked on we got student government really involved which was really good and so and that just took persistence it's like send a friendly email to people that you know that are already doing oh yeah did you talk to so-and-so or whatever but do it in a friendly manner of course but yeah I don't know if anyone else wants to share there was another interesting question in yeah thanks super that we need more and more intentional about getting on the agenda at mandatory there was another question here which I thought was quite interesting you know we've been talking about faculty so far the fact that for them it's much more convenient perhaps to teach online now that they some of them have gotten over that hump you know I know that in in my particular area a large percentage of faculty live like more than 30 miles from campus and so that's a huge ask to come in several times a week to teach and they probably would prefer to have that hour or two at home because we have terrible traffic here um they probably prefer to you know like I do homework great homework during that time so um but the question that was also posed here is what about getting our students back in the classroom uh after the pandemic do students want to come back um do students need to come back um because some of them don't really have access uh and those kind of issues I wonder if people have thought about that part of it was this your question Cindy too no I can't claim this one okay that one must have been laces what what do folks think about where students are at on this one I mean I can speak for I think um the majority of our students prefer face-to-face um classes even though um you know we have the students who like most of the students in our online classes now wouldn't have signed up for an online class before the pandemic so um they I think that they'll definitely prefer to be back in the classroom see and our students are weird they say they want face-to-face but our online sections are the first to fill up but that's because they say they want faith when they say they want face-to-face what they mean is they want face-to-face the way it used to be and it's not so yeah it's the wrong question I think so what is what what's the question Tina how would you phrase it uh I would say do you prefer online to masked social distance oh we haven't even offered mass social distance face-to-face you have it yeah yeah the only ones right now that are doing that at labs in the nursing program that's it that's the only ones that are allowed on campus the rest of us I'm not even allowed to go on campus right now I know that they're that CMU Central Michigan University is doing or at least they have been or they were doing uh it's horrible for a faculty member to do this but they have to teach both the virtual class and the face-to-face class at the same time so what happens is they end up with two or three students in masks sitting in the classroom while they're talking to a camera as well and it's just I mean if that's the class experience that students are having well that's not what they want for sure you want a bunch of people yeah I guess my other question too is after all of this are students going to be accustomed to online learning and want to stick with it I don't know I guess that's way out of my ballpark and I'm guessing that there may be some age related is you know potentially certain age groups may have preferences um you know I think particularly the younger folks um you know right out of high school may be more comfortable with something that's similar to what their experience was before and then of course you know older folks have a lot of responsibilities potentially with you know may have a full-time job may have a family I don't I don't know Oana um I'm helped raising my niece and nephew one is 15 and one is 12 acting like he's 18 both of them hate the learning online stuff um I never thought that they would be so they just wanted to and they want to go back into school they want to be social and it's really difficult for them to adapt and um although I think that their grades are a tad bit better because they have auntie school teacher here you know you know making sure that they're doing their homework and stuff like that so yeah I I don't know I don't know judging from the two kids that I have in the house I just don't know yeah I think the students may really I mean particularly the younger ones may miss the social aspect of being with other students they may be less concerned about having a teacher in the classroom I don't know you know um yeah interesting any other thoughts on that one I'm just going to add that from from my perspective as a counselor I hear a lot of students that that lead with a are we going to offer any in-person courses next semester and and I hesitate to to um categorize them because I think it's coming from a pretty wide variety of of reasons um some students didn't want to learn online in the first place some students have health health concerns and issues um some students want the socio-emotional or maybe they like the the online classes but they want the in-person support services um and and I think um demographics play roles as well um I think we've we've all seen some disproportionate impacts that has negative effects on many of our equity um uh progressions and and OER is centric for that so you know I I appreciate the question I think it's really complicated I think there's more than two three four buckets and um and and I think my you know my my main takeaway for myself is that different students need different things and if if we're only able to offer one or two or three or even four um types of of um learning opportunities we're missing um what is going to be best for some students who are going to learn in different wins continue the discussion um I know we're coming up on the hour and I just wanted to give you a few updates um so our regional leaders for open education initiative we presented at both of the um conferences in November um and that program continues we're hoping to enter phase two in January um which we will enlarge that quite a bit more and so we'll be reaching out to all of you to find out um how you might want to participate in that phase two so phase one um Kate maybe I'll catch you up some other time I think Tina you've been you've heard a little bit about it so it's it's there's four work groups that have been working on solving common solutions across state boundaries essentially that's the short answer I also wanted to mention that CCC OER is working on a anti-racism uh OER grant I should say uh with the Hewlett Foundation uh with California Community Colleges and so we're very much in the early stages in fact um uh selection of the of a small faculty cohort uh is being done uh this week um and so it'll really launch essentially in January and we'll keep you posted we'll be doing webinars with various uh faculty who are focused on that but also organizations that are focused on anti-racism who wouldn't necessarily be part of open education and those will be separate from our main CCC OER webinars but we plan to share uh the um invitations to those as well so that you can keep up to date on on those and and join us um because I think we have a lot to learn in this area um our EDI committee continues to meet monthly so if you're not on that list and you'd like to be there's a bitly here uh to join that one I think I know a number of you are already on that um it's a learning community essentially and they choose a monthly topic um and we have another we have another group that does this on the executive council which is specifically looking at um how to make a CCC OER as an organization more equitable and diverse um and then we have a we have a super uh webinar coming up next week with just a set of luminaries Judith Sebastas coming Michael Mills um Michael Bailey and Richard Sebastian from Achieving the Dream on Tracking Your Key Program Indicators for OER so it's kind of part of this sustainability um how do you make sure that you know your administrative executive folks uh pay attention to OER and how it's supporting your program your key program indicators from your strategic plans um if you missed OE Global everything's available now or if you missed some of the sessions um and it doesn't matter if you didn't register uh everything's up there you can go to this bitly OE G 20 Explorer you can search by author uh you know whoever presented or by title um or you can create a playlist and uh Liz did you want to mention the what a playlist is okay well I think you're um the playlist feature is just um in the OE Global Connect forum um we're just asking people to share their favorite um links in a post um I posted in the link for the OE Global Connect Connect is open to everybody so if you haven't signed up already you can go ahead and um click the sign up button at the top and but you can view all of the um all of the sessions and view most of them have video and slides and then if you want to create a playlist and share with the community your favorites um that's the link that is in the slide that I'm going to put in the slides and the link I put in to the chat is to we used OE G Connect for our conference platform instead of using like SCED or something like that um so one advantage of that is that everything is there so if you go to that link you can see keynotes live presentations asynchronous presentations all of it's um in there um and then the the one the bit.ly that I'm going to put in is is a more targeted link where you can search by title or presenter and we'll create a playlist we just haven't had a chance because it's been such a few weeks we'll create a playlist of all the cccoer folks who presented um and maybe some other playlist because I mean it ccco it was great to see cccoer folks there but the point of the oe global conference really is the diversity from around the world and so we'll try and also do one um that would be of interest to I know a lot of you are interested in the international work as well sorry this is really an eye strain all I wanted to mention was we our winter quarterly meeting will be January 21st or 28th we're still taking votes on that if you have a preference on January 21st versus January 28th put it in the chat window now and we'll pay attention to that although it may not be the final solution our monthly webinars will restart in February as always and open ed week is coming up in March and we will open the open ed week site um early in January um and then you know as we always do we'll have quarterly meetings um there will be oe g board elections um they start in February and they finalize in April and then we will have an executive council refresh in May so that's an opportunity for those of you who haven't served on the executive council and would like to be more involved in the planning process at cccoer we we would welcome you um or those who've been on the council for several years and need a break um that's also available and then finally as Liz mentioned at the very beginning I can't remember if we were recording at that time oe global 2021 is October 5th through seven at the University of Nantes in the southwest part of France and we sure hope we can all go there in person um and wishing you all funding to do that if it happens so thanks so much for joining us um today and I we're open if people have questions or um I'm gonna just hang out about that's great um otherwise the meeting's officially over bye good night bye everybody thank you see you see you coming bye thank you