By Amber Gallant on March 18, 2022 | Tagged with open academia, open access, open education
Where Should We Take Open Access Next?: Moving Forward By Centering an Ethics of Care Guest Post by Amber Gallant What is Open Access (OA)? In 2002, a small group of scholars met to discuss the unaffordability of scholarly publishing and explore alternate avenues to make research freely accessible. The declaration they drafted, the Budapest […]
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By Britt Dzioba on November 5, 2021 | Tagged with Copyright, intellectual property, open access
Sovereignty and Tradition: Indigenous Knowledge & Open Educational Resources What’s an OER? With rising publication costs and tuition fees, there is a movement challenging the exclusivity of academic research that contributes to educational inaccessibility. Academic publishing companies charge institutions thousands of dollars to lease the rights to the research that their own faculty and students […]
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By defne inceoglu on June 4, 2019 | Tagged with affordable housing, AI, data, digital awareness, digital citizenship, education, Events, GOOD19, library, open data, Toronto, Toronto Public Library
I had the opportunity to attend the Go Open Data Conference or GOOD ’19 hosted this year at the breath-taking Toronto Reference Library in downtown Toronto. Being both a researcher, student and a contributor for Digital Tattoo, the conference included many themes and discussions around data which were of personal interest to me. My companion […]
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By samantha summers on April 19, 2019 | Tagged with open academia, open education, openness
Paul Stacey is a major proponent of open education initiatives. Currently the Executive Director of the Open Education Consortium, Stacey cofounded British Columbia’s open education initiative BCcampus and has worked at Creative Commons. Stacey has dedicated his life to working toward freely accessible education, and proving that open education isn’t just good for students, it’s also […]
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By elyse hill on November 15, 2018 | Tagged with conference, open access, open culture, open data, open education, OpenCon, reflection
As a member of the Digital Tattoo project, we are constantly striving to create different avenues for student learning, by making high-quality educational resources free and accessible. Because of this, I was impelled to apply to the OpenCon 2018 to learn more about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data. At the beginning of November, […]
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