UBC Okanagan's 2nd Annual Learning Conference 

L e a r n i n g  F r e e  o f  B o u n d a r i e s

Keynote Speakers

Biography

John Willinsky is currently the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, as  well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His most recent book, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006) has won the Blackwell Scholarship Award from the American Library Association. Examples of his work, including the open source software designed to improve the access and quality of research, are available at the Public Knowledge Project (http://pkp.ubc.ca) which he directs at UBC.

 "A newly Open and Public Quality to Learning"
This presentation will review educational developments in the public sphere that are taking place outside of classroom settings, which include open access to scholarship, the Wikipedia cooperative knowledge movement, the democratic pursuits of the blogosphere, the open source software movement, and the health information revolution. The pedagogical implications of these movements for educators and researchers will be considered in terms of fostering new lessons on the circulation of knowledge, the intellectual properties of our work, and the prospects of a more deliberative democracy.

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