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Richard Arias-Hernandez – Co-construction of Information Systems Designs and Social Values: An Ethnographic Study

Richard Arias-Hernandez – Co-construction of Information Systems Designs and Social Values: An Ethnographic Study

January 27, 2014

Scholarly work usually characterizes engineers as politically and socially conservative individuals; instruments of the expansion of capitalism and neoliberalism. It also portrays them as supporters of both the State and the big corporations that employ them. This talk reports on an ethnographic study that documented the work of a group of information technology (IT) engineers […]

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Margaret Munro – Muzzles, Media Offices and Message Control

Margaret Munro – Muzzles, Media Offices and Message Control

January 17, 2014

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. The open system that used to encourage and trust federal scientists to discuss their work has been replaced by a tightly controlled system that churns out “approved lines.” Margaret Munro’s stories exposing how the Harper government has muzzled and silenced […]

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Paul Stacey – Open Freedoms / Open Practices

Paul Stacey – Open Freedoms / Open Practices

January 17, 2014

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. Contemporary open education practices are based on free software and free culture movements. Join Paul Stacey from Creative Commons as he explores the extent to which Open Educational Resources, MOOC’s, open access, and other open education innovations are embodying and […]

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David Vogt and Christina Hendricks – The Whys and Hows of Open: Transforming Learning Through Open Pedagogies and Practices

David Vogt and Christina Hendricks – The Whys and Hows of Open: Transforming Learning Through Open Pedagogies and Practices

January 17, 2014

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. Open education can be understood as a collection of practices that utilize online technology to freely share knowledge and to increase access to learning. The creative act of designing an open course or project can also lead to new pedagogical […]

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Brian Lamb, Jon Festinger, Will Engle – Reclaiming the Open Learning Environment

Brian Lamb, Jon Festinger, Will Engle – Reclaiming the Open Learning Environment

January 14, 2014

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. The delivery of open online learning has become a more common practice (or at least a more desired practice) in higher education in recent years. In this session, two diverse universities will share their lessons learned in delivering open learning. […]

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Gregor Kiczales – MOOCs and On-Campus Learning

Gregor Kiczales – MOOCs and On-Campus Learning

January 10, 2014

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. What will higher education become as the MOOC innovation era plays out? Setting dire predictions aside it seems likely that students will have a vast range of resources for learning at their disposal. With MOOCs, MOORs, badge systems, learning communities […]

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Erin Fields – The Future? Open Online Courses and the Library

Erin Fields – The Future? Open Online Courses and the Library

January 10, 2014

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. Open access to research has become a core goal of academic libraries. The growth of open access initiatives, such as digital repositories, supports a very democratic notion of openly accessible publicly funded research. However, transitioning the support of open access […]

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Mary Burgess – Open Textbook Workshop

Mary Burgess – Open Textbook Workshop

January 10, 2014

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. In October 2012, the government of British Columbia announced its support for the creation of open textbooks for the 40 highest-impact first and second-year courses in the province’s public post-secondary system. This project has generated a lot of interest in […]

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Peter Binfield – Open Access Megajournals – Have They Changed Everything?

Peter Binfield – Open Access Megajournals – Have They Changed Everything?

January 9, 2014

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. The Open Access ‘Megajournal’ (a class of journal defined by the success of PLOS ONE) is a reasonably recent phenomenon, but one that some observers believe is poised to change the publishing world very rapidly. A megajournal is typically understood […]

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Joaquin Acevedo, Goldis Chami, Rowan Cockett, Colum Connolly, Jae-Yung Kwon – How Students Are Leading Open Access

Joaquin Acevedo, Goldis Chami, Rowan Cockett, Colum Connolly, Jae-Yung Kwon – How Students Are Leading Open Access

January 9, 2014

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. Students nationally and internationally are a major force in advocating for open access. Join five student leaders who will excite and inspire you about the impact of open access on your research and learning at UBC, Pecha Kucha style! Originally […]

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