 actually get a special award that is printed by the Fab Lab La Cotierre in Costa Rica. And this is a 3D printed award that comes out and it mounts on this little channel. It has flashing lights. We have a great video of it being manufactured. And these have already been sent by mail to Patrina Law and Jenren Wetzler and Mahabali and Yasser Tamar in Egypt. And since Delmar is here we thought maybe he could take it back for students and put it up in the office of Liebertex. But with that we really want to honor Liebertex students Henry Agnew, Ethan Turner, and Matthew Barkovitch who have done amazing work to support which Delmar is going to be here to talk about. Would you like to come up Delmar? Check this out. Congratulations and thank you. I don't think you have slides but you're going to just go to talk. Okay, perfect. So Alan promised me 35 minutes. So chapter one verse one. So I'm up here, thank you very much for this. We got two awards last year. I didn't get a single one so I get to keep this and send them photographs of this and take a look at that. I guess I have to put it together so that's going to be fun. So I'm up here presenting again for three former undergraduate students that have contributed critical roles to the building of the Liebertex project into the organization than it is today. Approximately 7,000 students just as a context have contributed to the Liebertex project largely as part of Open Pedagogy projects and classrooms. Some of them are as volunteers and some of them are as employees of our project supported by multiple grants. But these three Matt Barkovich, Henry Agnew and Ethan Turner stood out especially for their impact in building the Liebertex and especially in particular focusing on the state of technologies of the Lieberverse which is the set of technologies underlying the Liebertex. So let me talk about each of them in turn. Matt Barkovich worked for us from March 2008 to September 2008. We consider March 2008 to be our birthday so we are about 15 and a half years old and it started as an Open Pedagogy project then called the Ken Wiki that I was using in multiple classrooms. Matt was taking one of the classes and at that time we were using a learning management system called Sakai and specifically it's Wiki-based technology because we knew we wanted to base our stuff off of Wikis and that turned out to be a very painful experience if anyone's ever used that specific technology off of there and even the Sakai people admitted it's a painful experience. After I implemented this infrastructure Matt came up to me after class one day and basically told me that what I was doing was wrong and then said that he could do something better and he threw the gauntlet down and I picked it up and said yes please and he did he built his own he built the server the first server that hosted the Ken Wiki it was in the corner of my laser laboratory and it was operating as the primary technology for the Liebertex up until 2013 that means he set it up so the operating system found the technology that we use based off of MindTouch and approached those things and that was exceedingly critical he is now an assistant professor of radiology at the University of California San Francisco campus Henry Agnew joined the Liebertex project in June 2016 as a high school student a local student in Sacramento California he then transitioned as an undergraduate student and worked the entire four years actually five years because he took an additional year in order to just work on the Liebertex its own and then is now pursuing a PhD at the University Southern University of California San Diego in chemistry his contributions to the Liebertex is extensive and there are a few parts of the infrastructure that doesn't have his fingerprints on it at various levels he built the remixer which which received the OE Global Excellence Award last year which I did not get an award I'm going to point that out he built our infrastructure for generating print physical books which I have several copies of them out in the booth that I am hosting out there he built our first version of a single sign-on infrastructure he built a molecular builder infrastructure system for building biochemical kinetics in a wide range of other tools and he did this all as an undergraduate student it was impressive Ethan Turner the last of the three started in 2020 as a harvester which is our term in our mean taking existing OER and bring it into our platform whether it happens to be textbooks worksheets or homework as part of our adapt infrastructure he focused predominantly on computer science a text and focused specifically on jupiter enabled which means that he has the ability to embed executable code into the textbook and he was pursuing textbooks of the future about a year after he started he came up to me and said I was again doing something wrong see a theme going on here and he introduced as a side project something he built which we now refer to as the comments of conductor which is our portal to the Libreverse it was a project management tool and the key point is that we had so many projects going on not just the ones that we were facilitating on our on our campus but many other campuses out there and that we needed to have an OER centered project management tool and he built it for me and said here it is and my response was wow and then we started to build and expand it and now it's an exceedingly powerful infrastructure and a key component of the Libreverse he built our single sign-on our new single sign-on system that we call Libre 1 which has been exceedingly powerful he's extended he's not at any of the UCs he's now working partially at Libre Tech and partially in his secondary company but I could say without any reservations if it weren't for these three fact not faculty students then students we wouldn't be anywhere near we are today because I'm a chemist by training and I need to learn these things very slowly and they introduced me to the potential that I was able to put out there so we wouldn't have reached building infrastructure that reaches 1 1.1 billion page views since we started back in 2008 when Mark Matt came up to me and told me I was initially doing something wrong with that I thank you very much and I'm sure they're going to be appreciative of the photograph of their award so with that thank you very much also thank you Delmar and you know we talk a lot about like student pedagogy of actually students contributing it's actually the whole platform is definitely a powerful thing that we want to appreciate about Libre Tech next up we're going to learn all about a great project that modern humanities on manifold manifold is a fantastic platform but this is probably an incredible implementation of it and I want to welcome up here Paul Ricardi and Michelle Turnball who are going to really throw you with everything that they've done with this course thank you Alan we just learned a new word harvesting harvesting yeah oh wait I've got there uh hi everyone thank you so much to Open Education Global for having us we are so honored to receive the Open Reuse Remix Award and to be among such extraordinary creators we're really humbled to be here today and today we're just going to show you our OER humanities text that we created and walk you through our collaborative process so that's me I'm Paul Ricardi I'm on the theater arts faculty at Kingsborough Community College which is a campus at the City University of New York and I'm also a co-coordinator for the humanities course which our OER lives with which is part of college now an early college program at Kingsborough Community College and I'm Michelle Turnball and I've taught this College Now Humanities course for many years before I started coordinating the course with Paul at Kingsborough so we're very lucky to be at Kingsborough Community College Kingsborough's support for the development and the creation of OER text is something that should be acknowledged and admired starting with Erica Della Cruz the director of the College Now program and you know Kingsborough has OER coordinators who do like the research for the grants and who really encourage faculty to apply for them which is amazing to be in such a space so we definitely want to thank Shauna Brandel and Ryan McKinney for all their help getting us the grant money to continue to work on this project we also really want to thank Robin Miller who is an open educational technologist and who is here with us today in person she came to cheer us on before her our text was just a PDF it certainly would not have been in manifold without her help and it really wouldn't have those really nice next page buttons that you'll see because Yammel Files am I right this was truly a collaboration as you'll see is the theme of our presentation when you download our text it's nearly 300 pages that's a lot of OER text we could not have done that just the two of us so we really relied on teachers who were teaching the content from all across New York City teachers of many different disciplines we have special education teachers English teachers music teachers art teachers working on this text so I just want to give them a quick shout out Matthew Foreman Andrew Wilder Monica Walker Shannon McArdle Maria Rosario Donna Ryan and Matthew Hoffman thank you truly now we know that they're harvesters that's what they're harvesters uh so just a little bit about our processing creating the humanities OER so first of all just a little bit about College now so Kingsborough Community College which is part of the City University of New York there are multiple CUNY or City University of New York campuses that have this College Now program which in short is an early college program where the colleges provide college courses at high schools throughout the city so the College Now program that is run by Kingsborough we have college courses at high schools throughout Brooklyn and Staten Island and Michelle and I have been coordinating this humanities course when COVID hit we could no longer get our students the the you know 10 pound 300 dollar textbook to their homes and you know honestly and we're kind of embarrassed we you know we'd heard like oh oh we are it's free let's let's get one then we quickly found out it didn't work like that and we were so grateful to hear in in the keynote the question about you know cost savings and what we quickly learned is it's not about cost savings it's about accessibility and that's what we learned very quickly about this text so with the support of the OER coordinators on our campus we got some grant money and began the endeavor of creating a new text that was a collection of all sorts of resources the humanities course is a course in which we help students contextualize the humanities in our culture so they're all sorts of chapters exploring visual art theater music poetry all of it the way we came about creating our OER was to engage the faculty teaching the humanities courses in the high schools throughout Brooklyn and Staten Island and we all worked together and harvested resources I'm just going to say harvest as many times as possible now harvested these resources that became the sort of humanities readers and we all worked together it was a very collaborative sort of working environment and we each took a section of a chapter Michelle and I oversaw the whole thing and brought it to fruition we assigned faculty certain parts of the chapter we all harvested we then came together and put this into what became a PDF we Michelle and I spent a very long summer double checking all their citations making sure they actually were open learned a lot more about OER we then met Robin Miller who helped us take this from a PDF to something that is truly truly dynamic and interactive which we'll show you in a bit the final piece so far is that in a last grant cycle we then worked with faculty to create resources for these chapters so there are videos and power points and lesson plans that students and faculty can click on that are become companions to the reader itself so this map I love although it's not a billion downloads I was feeling really good about my map I love this map because OER by nature acknowledges that education is about sharing ideas and resources and should be open and this illustrates the impact the influence that just one text can have it's been downloaded over a thousand times in all these different countries and we're really proud of that or I was and now we'll show you what the text looks like so we did a little video screen so this is our landing page okay you can see we just have a course description followed by the titles of all of our the content that's in there so you can see it covers history music architecture poetry drama theater a little bit of everything as in is the nature of the humanities so we're really proud of that and then as you scroll down you get to all the resource collections that go with each chapter and there were 93 total resources that we put together so this is just a sample chapter this is chapter one and then something that we implemented soon into our project was a resource called things to consider and this is for both faculty and students so they're you know I guess you could call them study guide questions you know questions that you might want to consider as you dive into the chapter and the unit and we wanted you know this is being you know this is a reader for the students and the faculty so these things to consider are speaking to both the folks that are teaching the courses and otherwise all right so we're going to annotating now so one of the beautiful things about manifold is how the students can interact with the text you can highlight a section you can have students highlight in reading groups you can highlight a section and pose a question to the students the students can share their thoughts or reactions to the text and in this way they're interacting with the text in a new and interesting way so one of the things we love so I want to go back just for a second one of the things we love is that the resources the way people interact with resources within the chapter there's a little see that little square at the top you see that you click on it and you know oh this has some sort of companion to the thing that I'm reading and we love this because we think that this is how our students learn right we live in a digital culture where if you can't get something in one click you're you know you're lost and so within one click our students can you know see a PowerPoint or a video and what's really important about this is um so for example the Museum of Modern Art a lot of artwork is not open but news clips or videos of the art is and so many of our students don't have access to MoMA uh you know they live in southern Brooklyn they're just not going to get out there so these videos are creating access so we love the resources now I have to keep skipping to next steps is that where I'm going okay hold on we're going we're still going we're still going it looks so nice doesn't it I know this is when we thought we had an hour no okay so um so I mean that's that's just a little bit about our resource in terms of next steps right now our reader has four very large chapters we want to add a fifth chapter that deals with modern issues you know so for examples what's happened to the humanities and art in our you know post covert environment one of the things that we love about this reader is it's not it's it's it's fluid so you know because we're working with faculty members all the time they ask for things and say oh we need more in the punk movement from the 70s okay great we can do that you know we really need more on modernist poetry modernist poetry let's add it so we can this this is not a set thing it will move and change forever um we also want to add a companion where we start harvesting um samples of student work that has been generated from our humanities course and from other folks adapting this reader from around the world this way you can see what can be done through the text yeah what can come out of it and tell them about the one so we have a faculty member so the humanities faculty uh one of the qualifications is that you have to have a background in the humanities so our faculty are many of them are theater artists our musicians our visual artists and we have one high school art teacher who has a background in in the visual arts and painting and so for her unit on the late 60s she had the students create protest posters it was just a really interesting example of connecting the students and getting them to understand how the humanities and visual art impacts our world and then finally this is sort of one new step you know um maybe it was over a glass of wine last night where Michelle and I decided we want to we want to share um this OER and we're planning on writing an article so other folks can do what we're doing with the humanities text so we're really excited about that so we leave you with this beautiful picture of our Kingsborough campus um that Paul took yay and we just want to thank you again for this honor we are humbled to be included with so many amazing people and this amazing organization that acknowledges supports and promotes the belief that education should be open thank you so much thank you so much all right that was tremendous I hope everybody is checking this out right now but now we have something really excited this may be one of the most favorite I love a good title and I heard about Buds Bart branches and bark a couple years ago and the story of what Julia has done in terms of where she got the idea and she's going to tell this and where it's going you'll you're going to know right away why this won this award so we welcome Julia Lawrence Tomlin who's coming to us from the British Columbia Institute of Technology and she came out specifically to be part of this presentation so thank you I just want to say I'm super grateful to be here it's amazing to be among so many other inspirational educators and yeah thanks for inviting me to be part of this so yeah I'm here to speak to you a bit about my journey as an educator and how I got involved with open education resources so actually my very first time hearing about open education was BCIT sent out an email asking people to apply for grants and I had never heard of open education resources at that point I just started working at BCIT and I thought oh that looks like a cool grant I'll just throw my name in the hat and stunning to me I got approved to create a card game called plant press so this was my very first OER and it kind of helped get me in the swing of things so we worked together with the students to create some kind of like puns and art for helping people learn different names of plants and how to identify them so that was my dipping the toe in the open education resource world and yeah because of that work that I did it inspired other people in my department to learn a bit more about what OER was I could share that with them and another faculty member who I worked with decided to create a series of open education videos called interviews with plants so yeah I got to be involved in that project too so we got what the idea was we go outside and basically we talk to a plant about how to identify that plant and what are some of the key features so yeah those are the two kind of OERs that sort of helped inspire me on my journey to create an open education textbook so yeah basically I'm also a student when I from BCIT I was a student in the forestry program I got my diploma and then I went on and I did my ecological restoration degree at BCIT as well and then I worked for a few years and came back as faculty but one of the things I noticed during my time as a student is that when we were trying to learn the plants it was winter and that was unfortunate so the resources we had just weren't very adequate for that time of year and that's just the time of year that school happens right fall and winter so as a student I was I was really wishing there was some kind of resource that would help me and my classmates learn to identify plants in the winter so that was sort of the very beginning of this idea was from when I was a student and wish there had been a resource so that was way back in 2007 the seed was planted yeah and then like I said I mentioned I applied for open education grants through BCIT and that was how I first learned about OERs and in 2019 I applied for another grant to work on creating that winter identification textbook so yeah we started it in January 2020 and as you know some stuff happened that year that kind of disrupted everything but we worked together me and the students remotely to kind of pull together our first attempts at the book and then over the next three years I worked with many different groups of students and I started to sort of talk about what we were doing at the institute and the more people I talked to the more kind of inspired and excited people were like every time I talked to people about what we were doing people were like yeah I want to be part of your thing and I was like oh this is amazing because although I sometimes think that I'm sort of like the captain of this ship of this project there's no way I could do it without all of the amazing people that work together with me on this if it was just me it would be three pages long and probably in PowerPoint or something that didn't look that nice so I'm super grateful for all of the work that was put in together over the years by the many students and I'll show you a little bit of the evolution of the book over time um so yeah now we're into 2023 and onwards and I'll talk a little bit about what my vision is for the future but like I said the thing about this project is it just seems like people want it to keep going and going so I think it could keep going as long as I want it to be involved and maybe someone else would want to take it over at some point too but it's been a real um a real wonderful journey and I think it's probably the most fun thing I've done and during my time as an instructor so I'm super grateful to have worked with so many awesome people um speaking on that uh so at BCIT we have different schools we have the school of construction and environment which is my school we also have the school of business and design we have the school of transportation we have school of nursing so we have many different schools and when people ask me where I work I say I work at BCIT and they say oh cool do you know my friend they work at BCIT and I'm like no probably not if they don't work in the department that I work in um and that's the thing I think that happens a lot a lot of post-secondaries is we end up being very siloed right we we're working with only a handful of people and all these other people are doing all these cool things and you have no idea until you start to reach out and I think that was one of the things I found the most amazing about this project is I got to work with people in many different schools across the institute and uh right now we've had about 200 collaborators working on this project when we bring in if we think of all the students we have worked on it and all the faculty and even some outside people as well so yeah it's been an honor to work across and kind of break down some of those barriers at the institute oops go back here oh pitting the wrong button um so as I said in the year 2000 was when we or excuse me 2020 I'm time traveling um in the 2020 we did our first version of the book and at this time I didn't really know what it meant to make a book I was like pick whatever format you want any file type don't even worry about it that was a bit of a mistake but you know it's a learning process so this is my first attempt yeah I was admiring how beautiful your book layout is um yeah uh so yeah we started with just anyone do whatever you want the idea was that people were supposed to go out and kind of pick a plant and go out and and be with that plant take pictures of it but because we were so disrupted with our learning at that time people ended up doing kind of a more online version of the book so it was like they went out and researched about the plant online rather than going out and being with the plant which was what was originally intended and like I said I had tons of different file types so it was a bit of a disaster for me to pull anything together um but yeah the next year we work together to kind of pull together an actual template um so we had a template that people could put their stuff into we could all work on it at the same time which was nice and uh that was kind of the first edition that we released so that was spring 2021 and you can see there's still some big um blanks in this so uh this is big leaf maple and that's this is kind of the how it evolved over time so we're missing some of the information some of the photos are so so um but you know we work together and then the next year we were able to bring in more information so basically this was like I would go to my students ask them what plant they were interested in they would pick a plant and then we would kind of continue to build year after year a kind of a library of information about that plant and photos and I asked them to use their own observations too so what what made sense to them when they were describing the plant um so yeah we ended up coming up with something that was much more usable um and kind of a better layout and then the following year um I presented a talk at BCAT and I met someone who worked in the school of business um doing um teaching adobe illustrator and um the other adobe products and she was like my students could make a way better looking book for you and I was like oh thank god so I met with the students and they came up with many different designs so this is me with the graphic art students and they had come up with a bunch of different style guides which I didn't know was a thing and they had picked colors and stuff and it was very exciting to work with them so we worked we picked one um template that was uh set forward and then the whole class worked together to bring the book into that format and here's the book after they worked on it so it's significant upgrade I would say um they worked really hard to have a lot of hyperlinks too so the table of contents you can hyperlink back and forth out of each plant um there's also links to some of our interviews with plants uh website or excuse me our interviews with plants youtube videos are in there um yeah so just a much more improved layout to the book um and now it's that's available in pdf format and yeah it was it's just been a real little amazing process to see the evolution of how things changed over time um and then so uh in year four I started working with a professional editor in a student professional editor who was taking professional editing and I learned about style guides for writing which again I also didn't know that was a thing so we worked together to edit um the all the entries because when you have hundreds of authors um it gets a little messy at some times and I was super grateful to work with her and one of the things we also did was we tried to um have more respectful language about plants in the book so for example when we talk about plants in the book we don't call them it um we use they or we just rewrite the sentence so there's never like it has this or it looks like that so we've taken out some of that kind of colonial language around plants um it's just a small thing but I think it does make a difference when you read through the book um I also worked with a group of students to create plant maps so you could go out and see where these plants were and that was really cool too these students actually worked on in their own free time to do these maps so that was an amazing collaboration as well and I also learned how to take better pictures of plants so that was my journey as well I became a bit of a um a twig photographer I call myself so um when people are like oh you're into photography I'm like just twigs just twigs uh but yeah so that was um that was a fun part of a kind of revamping the book and upgrading it significantly and yeah so we're at the point now where um the the third edition of the pdf is going to be coming out soon so again that will be interactive it'll have those plant maps in it we're adding 28 more plants to the book and so that's kind of in the next month or two I should be able to share that interactive third edition it's available as google slides right now but it's not it's the old format it's not that nice new layout and I've been trying to find a way to get it printed because people keep being like we need a field version of this to have out in the field and I'm like just put it on your phone but people really want a printed copy and I've been trying to find a way for that but it hasn't it hasn't been totally going super well so I'll see I'm still working on that trying to reach out to different people it's a little bit hard with OERs as you know sometimes to find a way forward for for printing especially something like this it's like high color or high resolution photos and stuff so I don't know so I'm working on that and um yeah I when I presented at BCIT there was also a group of students from another program who were really excited about the opportunity of turning this into an app and I was like oh wow I never even thought about that so anyways I think there's some still some traction here lots of people are excited sort of snowballed the more people who are involved the more people want to be involved and yeah I'm just really grateful to have been part of this and to be the captain of a of a ship that seems to be sailing really well so yeah thank you for being here today and letting me share a bit more about my project with you thank you so much Julia you can see a lot of energy there and what an arc of growth for a project maybe she'll talk to the manifold people yeah yeah that's that's what we like to have here so uh next up we have in the open policy award winner beyond chase here about us this is a fantastic thing that has happened in Washington and again we have a theme here being student driven and this is very exciting so congratulations thank you thank you um I'm deeply honored to receive this award on behalf of 34 community and technical colleges of Washington this is such a meaningful gift especially to our system colleges student association who turned this seemingly impossible idea into a reality so first of all just a quick overview of what it what it is um Washington state has two state policies that require all of our colleges to label the courses they use OER or law cost materials they appear on the class search page as you can see there enabling our students to make more informed choices at the time of registration so the idea is really simple isn't it like you know you label the courses that use OER and make them show up on the class search page so students can filter and make good choice and then um but our road to get here was far from simple at all the whole thing started in 2015 we did this we ran um it's really comprehensive statewide research to assess some needs regarding faculty members you know use of OER and their perception and needs and from that research it was discovered that despite numerous faculty members thousands of faculty members who actually adapted OER um it still remained as a random and very elusive opportunity for our for many students so you really have to be very lucky to accidentally sign up for the courses that happen to be taught with OER so some students are super lucky they uh they get they benefit from OER quarter after quarter and some students would never hear about it until they graduate so we saw that as an equity issue and we crafted this statewide policy that would require colleges to label the courses that use OER and for that we ran two rounds of statewide surveys inviting all of the faculty members and college administrators to provide an input on the policy guideline on every item there um to the level that they actually worse meet every word and from that process we were able to establish the policy guideline and managed to legislate that into the state law in 2017 so from that place we ran a pilot with three colleges in our system and from those three colleges we got this very consistent feedback saying when we need another label that would label the courses that use other affordable course materials that do not necessarily fit into the definition of OER such as really inexpensive commercial textbooks so we got to that work and then soon faced this gigantic challenge which was setting up the threshold like how low is low enough for the whole colleges so we turned to our students and our student association raised you know they um they took the challenge and ran a statewide survey on students and their recommendation on the threshold and we managed to receive 10,050 responses in just two months so from that recommendation we ran another round of statewide surveys inviting again faculty members and college administrators to worse meet the policy guideline this time this time for the law cost label so through the five rounds of statewide surveys we were able to establish the um policy guidelines for both law costs and OER labels and they got legislated in 2020 so to come to that point it took about five years and then for three past three years we've been busy implementing and um we are at the 80 percent of statewide implementation meaning that 80 percent of our study for colleges are actively implementing OER and local labeling policies benefiting our students and they get to make informed choices at the time of registration so that's where we are so in this process what I really wanted to highlight was our student involvement um Washington Community and Technical College Student Association known as WACSA took charge and they were in charge of promotion and distribution of surveys and that was actually a bit of understatement um what they did was in the months of October and November really called in uh Washington and they were holding ipad and sometimes with a little piece of candy and they will go everywhere like cafeteria student lounge classroom or sometimes even outside asking and urging their fellow students to fill out the survey and from that mad effort we reached about 5 000 responses but then from there um it was so moving and a lot of our system college offices were motivated and they voluntarily connected with student organization body of their campus and rallied to promote this policy and managed to increase the total number into 10 thousand 50 so we were um they after that they even lobbied um uh they did they put a lot of lobbying efforts with Washington state representatives and others they would voluntarily ask for less later luncheon or breakfast to talk about this policy so that when it comes to the uh less later session they will our bill will get the support and students would come to the hearing testifying and it just the um is so the while I was preparing for this presentation there were a few moments that I got like welled up remembering that moment how it was and I just wanted to share this um the actually this photo was taken from another student event I I I couldn't find the top photos that we took but it was similar to this so um I remember asking this question having this conversation with one of the representatives student representatives who worked with me during that time and I said hey just so you know um this policy will not have any impact on you guys uh it will take at least a couple of years for this policy to be in place um and be in full operation so sorry and then she said well we are fully aware of it and they she said we are in community colleges we will graduate in a in a year or two uh so we know that we will not benefit from this policy we are doing this for the for this we are advocating for this change for the future students okay so um that the sense of conviction I had that day still remains in me and um that they have been the biggest teacher for me and this award is really for them and um so along with all that the data-driven process and student leadership we also put a lot of dedicated effort for the effective implementation strategies we put a really comprehensive labeling guideline that has that not only offers you definition and criteria but all of the sample cases what's qualified what's not qualified 10 different case studies that we put all of them there making sure it's as comprehensive as it can be and we also put a lot of professional development training tutorial sample cases best practices this video and that video uh the tools the all types of tools making sure that our faculty members are ready to jump in they have enough guide and we built a very dedicated coordinators network and we do mid-monthly sharing concerns experiences and last item we do have monitoring agency uh Washington State Board for community and technical colleges a state government agency that support our systems uh 34 two-year colleges my agency we work as active monitoring agency that coordinate the entire statewide operation we collect and share usage data as well so speaking of usage usage data I just pulled before I came here ask our data service people to pull the data on the total number of class sections and total enrollment enrollment in those class sections and based on that data we it was estimated that in just two years total amount of student cost saving is over 20 million dollars and I'm so happy to report that number and I think that based on that number I can humbly feel that our efforts have paid off so this is where we are heading looking ahead we are aiming 100 percent participation across all 34 colleges by 2025 we are also looking into integration of labeling data with student achievement data so that we can have more holistic picture about the total impact of this policy on students achievement and their career path and you know so this is our very genuine and sincere effort to align the practice with policy policy with practice so bringing the some of some fancy words in the policy document into a reality was beyond challenging but with data-driven process inviting stakeholders from the beginning and the dedicated professional development services and and active involvement of our students I think that we have our policy evolved into a usable and friendly guidelines for the daily operations so I always say that our policy we have our policy implemented thank you thank you very impressive I'm sure many know it can be difficult to do this in a single institution to do it across 34 yeah okay now we have I have to have a personal favorite about this one because I've watched this the we like sharing competition has been part of Open Education Week for a couple times and I like pictures and really want to proud that this one in the wildcard category we decided to create an open one because we have a lot of categories but there's always things that maybe don't fit so Beda de las Arcos from TU Delft is here to talk about we like sharing this is really a lot of fun guys so thank you thank you all thank you to the whole of the community and thank you also for the opportunity to actually show you because I am it's not me guys I'm here but it's the work like of lots of different people and who just wanted to share a photograph so okay there you go so I live in the Netherlands I'm originally from Spain where I live in the Netherlands and in the country where everybody owns at least three bicycles I'm a walker so when I walk I have you know you walk and you have ideas and this is doing one of my pandemic walks I had the very simple idea of opening a Flickr account initially with the idea of sharing some of the photographs that our course teams use in their MOOCs in their courses in the online courses so that just another way of facilitating reuse but since you have a Flickr account and you know why do not just keep sharing and invite other people to to share photographs these days we all go around with with phones in our pockets and you know it's just very easy very very easy to take a photograph so that was February 2021 open education week was around the corner because it's it's March so I said that's perfect why don't I use so let's put the two things together so I can organize a photo competition to raise awareness about the the photobank which is called we like sharing by the way and at the same time celebrate open education week and it was very very very simple honestly the whole idea is that I invited people while I asked William for 100 euro so that's all we needed so that was to fund the to fund the awards but then I invited pretty much everyone and with help of different colleagues we started making as much noise as possible and the the premise is very very simple we just invited people to submit a photograph where they would represent what open means to them and and that was it really the thing is that they they could submit any file any kind of photograph with a fancy camera with a phone with anything and the only request let's put it that way was that they so they would always retain the copyright so this has nothing to do with the university the author of the photograph would retain a copyright but they would they would need to choose a creative commons license because these photographs were going to be shared in they were going to be shared with the whole world so so that's so that's what I did and photographs started coming in so we did it first in February sorry March 21 we repeated in March 22 we did this year this year was the biggest I normally with the help of Alan and so I know I try to organize an international jury just to make it you know make it just an international jury that it's gonna be but this year we also introduced the category of the people's choice so that everyone and anyone and everyone could actually could actually vote for their favorite so then the photo with the most votes would would be awarded the people's choice and so it is a lot of fun at the moment we have something like just over 1000 photographs in there all released on the cc license all tagged all you know with the attribution text just to make it really easy to people to learn how to attribute correctly and the description of each of the photographs also serves us um if anyone is using these photographs in in an online course for example and want to do the right thing and ask the alt description the description is already there so it's just a matter of copy and paste so as I said it's super fun there are lots lots of so I'm showing you this these are the winners of the of the uh yeah I think it was between this year's competition and last year competition but there are all kinds of photographs in there so I'm always thinking that beauty is in the eye of the beholder so some of these photos are super beautiful you might think but they are actually other super beautiful photographs that are normal photographs but something that you would be very easy um you know it's actually very easy to reuse because you will need some of those photographs in fact the presentation I'm giving tomorrow all the photographs I'm I'm using in my presentation come from from the from the repository so yeah so that's that's it thank you so much and one of the great things I mean this is pretty simple but it's so replicable and easy to do so and and all you need is a hundred euros right um we do want to recognize that we have five awards represented here there's another 11 and we've collected a series of video messages from other award winners after their um they got word of their award and you can even learn more about them um in their own voice as well as obviously on the awards website so we want to thank everybody for coming here we're going to have some room for comments and I also want to invite my colleague Marcella Morales our interim director to come up and say a few words yes very briefly I want to say congratulations to our winners thank you thank you very much for being here Paul, Michelle, Bea, Booyoung and Julia it's a pleasure to learn a little bit more about your projects and initiatives and thank you for being here and congratulations also to all our winners that are not with us here uh just be sure that we're celebrating your win and your projects and initiatives and also I just want to say that the awards for us is really just a way to recognize and celebrate the amazing work that the community does and it's really the awards are of the people for the people is the way that we like to look at it because the reviewing committees part of our community the projects that are being reviewed are part of the community is just a way to celebrate the amazing work that we do together as a community so congratulations and thank you thank you very much for sharing a little bit more about your projects so we are open for questions and comments and I want to say thank you also to my colleague Alan for leading us through this process of the awards so brilliantly this year so anybody questions comments ideas okay so lastly I want to say thank you also to the nominators and I want to encourage everybody to be part of the awards there's no way for us to know and learn about the projects other than the ones that we receive so we always encourage the community itself to share with us the project so we can learn about them and then have these beautiful panels and learn more about the open initiatives that are happening around the world so thank you thank you very much for a wonderful session it's always amazing to learn a little bit about all the projects that are happening around the world so thank you very much for being with us