Thu, October 22, 2015 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM See description. Free. Celebrate and learn more about Open Access Week with this collaborative panel event, "Open for Collaboration: Is it Time for Canada to Implement A Unified Open Strategy for Higher Education?"
Spurred by the need to make higher education accessible to all, the open movement has gained ground as the Internet evolved to enable easy sharing of different forms of media. However, while the notion of "open" in higher education has been growing in British Columbia, the default scholarly approach is still closed.
It is time for the scholarly conversation to shift from why open, to why not open? This event will feature discussion about collaboration within the open movement and role of openness in higher education in British Columbia.
Schedule
5:30 – 6:30 Registration and reception
6:30 – 7:15 Welcome and keynote from John Willinsky, PKP
7:15 – 7:30 Break
7:30 – 8:30 Panel discussion
8:30-8:45 Closing
Panel Speakers
- Dr. John Willinksy, Public Knowledge Project SFU
- Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin, Professor at SFU
- David Ascher, Mozilla Foundation
- Inba Kehoe, University of Victoria Libraries
- Clint Lalonde, BCcampus
- Dr. Rosemary (Rosie) J. Redfield, Professor in the Department of Zoology at UBC
Location: SFU Harbour Centre. Reception will be in the Teck Gallery. The main event will be in room 1430.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
This event is part of the annual International Open Access Week, and is a collaboration between the University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), BCcampus and the BC Research Libraries Group (BCRLG).