 community meeting of 2022. My name is Tonja Connerly, and I have the honor of being one of the board members for our Open Education Conference. To get us started, if you can please go to www.menti.com, and Haley's going to put the additional information in the chat and enter the code 79559014. Also, while you're observing the chat, if you can please tell us exactly who you are and where are you joining us from? And in a word or two, what is going to really excite you about the Open Ed 22 Conference? While you're utilizing the chat to introduce yourselves, I would also like our board members to introduce themselves at this time, since this is only our second community meeting. So board members, if you can start off by introducing yourself. Thank you. Sure. I'll go. My name is Susan Payne. I am an education specialist at the Oregon Department of Education, and I'm on our Oregon Open Learning Team. Director for Open. I'm Stephanie Buck. I'm the director for Open Educational Resources at Oregon State University, and I'm on the board. My name is Haley Bab. I'm part of the Spark Team who is supporting the Open Education Conference through this next transitional period. Am I the only one left to introduce her? So I'm Atul Roy. I teach at Montgomery College and I got this. I mean, I'm very excited about Open Education because, you know, I visited an Open Education University in India a long, long time ago that was established again, like about over 30 years ago. So anyways, so with this Open Education idea, it's really exciting for me and I don't know much about it, but I'm glad to join you and I hope I'm not in the wrong place, but because I'm not a board member, I'm not, I don't have any official title. I'm just an instructor, you know, just teaching for time for like 45 plus years. So, or 47 I keep forgetting. All right. So, so here I am. Okay. Well, we thank you very much and we don't want you to say you're just, you're not a board member. We're so happy to have you in our community. So thank you very much. Our agenda for today is that we're going to start off by discussing and giving you an update on our operational part of the conference. And then we will have a call for proposal update. We will also discuss with you our theme, Rise to Action, which we're very excited about. And we're looking forward to your contributions in reference to adding to that. And also, we will have a conversation about discussion questions. And then we'll have a wrap up. So at this time, I'm going to pass it over to my colleague, Stephanie. Thanks, Tanya. So quick operations update. So this is going to be our first year of community led governments. And obviously, as you know, we have board of governors now or board of directors, I guess I should say, who are voted for by the community. We've been doing a lot of behind the scenes work to establish our government's processes. And I think hopefully by next week, you should hear maybe some more about that and what kind of structure we're going to put into place. Once that is in place, committee recruitment will start. So we haven't gotten yet to the committees. But keep those in mind because we know that many of you are interested in joining us and volunteering and being part of the proposal. So community questions. Yeah. So last time we had a community meeting, our first one, we had a couple of questions that we just wanted to respond to. One was why did we choose to stay virtual? And there were a couple reasons for that. Primarily just getting in the venue at this short time would have been very difficult. And there's a lot of legal and physical implications for having an onsite conference. So we decided with all the other stuff that's going on, we're going to stay virtual this year. We also like the fact that more people were joining us at the virtual conference. So it's a little bit more accessible. What will change this year? Hopefully not a whole lot. We hope that it's going to be the same kind of experience that you've had in the past. It's just that the governance of the conference has been changed to a board of directors in Spark. But we don't anticipate doing any large changes to the conference this year. And then how do I get involved? There'll be more information about that. But yes, we will have information about how you can get involved in the conference as a volunteer or get onto a committee. And let's see what else. The call for proposals is coming soon. Watch for an announcement the week of April 18th. We should be sending out something at that point. And then if you are not already signed up to the mailing list, please go ahead and sign up to the mailing list. And that way you'll get notified of the call for proposals. And our theme announcement, very exciting, is Rise to Action. And this was suggested by last year's steering committee, a special nod to Regina Gong, who put a lot of work into this theme. The 2020 theme was Reimagined Open Education or Reimagining Open Education. And the 2021 theme was open for all. So Rise to Action is a continuation of the work done over the past two years and serves as a call to action for the open education community. And please stay tuned for a full announcement in the coming days. And now I will turn it over to, is Rachel here? I don't think so, Stephanie. So we're going to continue to talk about the, as Stephanie said, we're going to have a discussion part. And Haley, do you want me to do the topics or would you? Sure, I am happy to start us out with the topics. And then I'll hand it over to some of my colleagues to sort of share in the discussion. So I know there's a there's an overwhelming slide in front of you that I'll explain in just a moment here. We wanted to take today as an opportunity to chat a little bit to you about the call for proposals specifically. So I know that many of you will have attended the conference in the past, but there also may be some of you who are new to the community. That's okay. We would love your feedback sort of regardless of the amounts of familiarity that you have with the Open Education Conference. So please, you know, feel free to participate in the discussion that we're about to start now. So we would just ask that you make sure that you are logged into menti.com and that your responses, you're following through on the Menti app. That way we can track this information and have it sort of logged to go through as we make decisions. So if you want to make sure that your responses are noted, Menti is the best way to do that. Okay, so now that my field's done, I'll get into the questions. So what you're looking at here, these are the topics that we used last year at Open Ed 2021. So there were 10 topics in total. And what the topics were, were essentially ways of categorizing the sessions so that, you know, if you were interested in a particular topic, you'd easily be able to see which sessions of the conference relate to this. So 10 topics is a lot. And we know that there was a little bit of feedback just about maybe perhaps feeling overwhelmed by some of these. So we are going to make some adjustments moving forward. And we would love to hear what all of you think about that. So before we get into that, we're curious to know of the 10 topics that you saw last year. They're all sort of listed in no particular order here. Which of them do you think brought the most value and you'd really like to see continuing into the conference, they could be under a different name. But maybe think about this as sort of like a not directly moving the topics from conference to conference, but just sort of a general idea, which of these really stood out to you, which would you like to see at future conferences? So I'll give it a moment just for folks to input their answers. I know that this is, it's a hard decision. A lot of these seem so crucial and so important. So you know, we certainly won't be losing any of these topics. We may just sort of bundle some of them together and reduce that down just for readability. Awesome. Okay, so I see some results coming in. Great. Okay. So a lot of emphasis on teaching and learning, designing for inclusion and accessibility. This Open Education 101 topic was really popular last year. So that's great. Culture of Open. Awesome. Great. I see that's moving a lot as the votes come in. So oh, and I guess I'll say a reminder as well. This mentee, you know, will stay open for the next 14 days. So we will post the link to this recording as well. You know, you'll still be able to access the mentee. So if you're watching this recorded later, just know that you are able to follow along and submit your answers as well. So as long as it's within the next 14 days of the community meeting. Okay, seeing some really great answers here, I'm going to shuffle us along for the sake of time. But thank you so much. This is really, really valuable information for us. Okay, so next we have just like an open ended topic question. We're wondering if there's other things that weren't necessarily, you know, represented by those 10 topics that you would like to see it open at 22. And if you can't think of something new, you know, if there's one that really resonates with you, feel free to pop that in here. We're just curious to know sort of what's the most important to you. Okay, some results roll in. That's awesome. A couple regarding software. Yeah, challenges around facilitating open a definitely multilingualism. Excellent. Thanks, folks. I'm going to move us along but still continue to pop those answers in through the mentee. Okay. So we'll have a couple questions about session types now. And at this point, I'm going to hand it over to Susan to chat about session types. Thank you, Hayley. So again, if you have, if you attended the conference last year, you're aware that there were, you know, a variety of different session types. So as we look forward in our preparing the call for proposals, we want to get some input on what the value really in each of those different session types. So I'll just I'll read these just in case anyone, you know, so folks, but you can also see them there on the on the screen. So we had 10 minute lightning talks, those were pre recorded 25 minute presentations, which were also pre recorded 40 minute live presentations, 55 minute panel discussions, and 40 minute discussions that were not recorded, those were just on live. And then we had a couple of open space, which were, which are like really open and people, you know, just just had, I think we had two of those last year. So we're going to do the same thing, give you the opportunity to rank those session types by the amount of value that they brought to the conference. Alright, so as we watch those results roll in. Yeah, so the, the looks like the panel discussions and the longer, you know, the longer sessions, I think, you know, you can get a little bit more in depth with those. So it looks like people were appreciating those. Great. Yeah. Thanks for that. And then just want to open it up. Are there other session types that you'd like to see? Yeah, maybe some more hands on things, little, little more interactive flip, flip classroom. I think what what one of the pieces that was nice was that there were some designated times for watching some of the pre recorded sessions and then engaging in discussion. We did get some good feedback about that, that option. So you could just do it asynchronously or actually go to a room and be with other folks to watch something that was recorded and then discuss it. Okay, I see. Unconference, social spaces that's a, that's a, yeah, great suggestion, especially not being in person, be, be great to have some, some spaces where people can just kind of socialize. And I think there was some of that last year, as well. And there's been some talk about maybe even the possibility of doing some things like in person regionally. Nothing finalized at this point, but lots of ideas. So really appreciate the input here. This is the second time I've seen something about the business side. So that's, that's good feedback. Awesome. All right. And then we have another kind of like a specific question about the possibility of a virtual poster session. So curious about your thoughts about on that. Do you feel that would bring value to the conference? And why are we not be helpful for us to know? Yeah, it is a tricky format virtually. Great. Great. All right. Yes, a mix of opinions. That's great. If they're, if they're available ahead of time and can be viewed afterwards. Okay. Yeah, that's awesome. So thanks again, for all of that feedback. It's, it's super helpful for us as we're planning. And then we have another kind of specific question. So as we were talking about the panel presentations and the types of proposals that we were getting for that time slot, we were wondering about, so the our 55 minute session type was purely intended intended for panels last year. And so this year, we're wondering, well, should we have a 55 minute time slot that could be either a presentation or a panel? So the longest presentation time that we have right now is the 40 minute presentation. So curious about your, your thoughts here. And, you know, again, thinking about some of the things folks said earlier about like workshops or hands on types of sessions, wondering if, if that might, if 55 minutes might be a, you know, a good thing to aim for there. Yeah, which somebody just said there that it's too long for presentation, unless interactivity is clearly built in. So that's, that's a really good point. Yep. Yeah. So a workshop, but not lecture. Totally agree. All right, awesome. Thank you so much. I'm gonna pass it back over to Tom Jack. Thank you, Susan. Continuing on with the discussion. What do you, what did you enjoy about the last two open conferences that you would like to see continue at this open conference in 2022? And again, your feedback is so important, because this conference is for all of us to continue to share knowledge with one another. The volunteering part, believe me, we have lots of work for you to do. So don't, don't worry about that one. Quality presenters, we will continue to, to provide you with that networking opportunities, valuable presentations, most definitely evaluating proposals, variety of sessions. We hope that we'd be able to most definitely offer you a variety of sessions. I noticed that you, you really ask about a lot of hands on activity workshops. So we most definitely will work on that one as well. Equity centered diversity. Okay, our next question. What would you like to see change? We ask what you would like to see continue, but what would you like to see change for our open 22 session? Well, we know it wasn't perfect guys. So but we're working on it. Okay, more petition from the rest of the world. So we want out some outside feedback, because sometimes when you're in it, you don't see, you know everything. So because you're so in it, so we need some outside feedback. Okay. Less East Coast time zone, more flexibility. Okay, more social opportunities, more emphasis on real beginners. Okay, Mr. Roy, somebody's already letting you know that we're on your side. Agree on time zone miss. Okay, we most definitely look at the time zone. International collaboration. That's great. See if we can get with OEG global or something like that. That's awesome. More follow up. Okay. More flexibility for reviewing recorded sessions. Okay, so we just need more a little bit more space. Okay. Oh, time zone is really an okay, we really got to look that time zone. Okay. Great. This is awesome. And again, guys, you can always just go back and continue to add the next question. What questions do you still have that you would like for us to address at our next meeting? Are there any questions that you feel that about the conference that you would still like for us to address at the next meeting? Because I know this meeting, we told you that we're going to have a date for you for a call proposal. We gave you the theme. Is there anything else that you would like an update on for our next meeting? Which will be in time just sorry to interrupt, but maybe I'll just add for this question in particular. You know, we know there are a lot of questions still and that's totally okay. There's still you know, many months before the conference for us to get to work on that and you know, we'll we'll work our hardest to make sure that there is lots finished for next week or next month I mean at this meeting. But do just keep in mind that we may not have all the answers right now. Thank you Haley. So, some of your questions that you would like for us to address in the next meeting and again, as Haley said, we will try to get to them and most definitely try to have some information prepared for you. So, evaluation criteria for the CFP as Stephanie highlighted that for us today. Who does what clear on governments and outreach? Most definitely we're working on that. I'm I'm saying my colleague Stephanie names quite a bit because she has a lot on her plate with with the governor's paneling that she's doing. What are your plans for continuing to emphasize accessible conference? Okay. We will most definitely address these questions and hopefully have some answers to you for our next meeting. Long term sustainability of the organization. Bringing in disciplinary collaborations. Opportunities for partnerships. Okay. So wrapping it up, I'm going to turn it back over to my colleague Susan. Yeah. So, the first thing that we just want to say is that while we are still working to develop our committee structure, we are I know a few a few of you said one of the one of your favorite things was, you know, doing things like reviewing proposals or having those volunteer opportunities. So, that interest form is open and I think Haley just put it in the chat. So, please feel free to express your interest in a volunteer role and we should have information out soon about what those what that committee structure is going to look like and then just a few reminders. Our next meeting is May 13th from one to two Eastern and we have these meetings are monthly. So, we have those scheduled through the end of the year and then of course we want you to save the date if you haven't already for the conference which will be held October 17th through the 20th of this year and as we've already mentioned it is going to be virtual and finally do follow us on social media. I think Alex put the link to the Twitter in the chat but there are we're also on Facebook on the Graham and you can always use our official hashtag when you're posting. So, Haley also put that link in the chat to sign up for the mailing list. All those links are in the chat there for you and we just want to say thank you so much like super valuable to have your feedback. We're really excited so many folks showed up today and look forward to more meetings and seeing you all at the conference. Have a great day everybody. Thanks so much for coming everyone we'll see you next month.