WEBINAR | Distributing knowledge for equity: two new books and an evolving concept for Open Science
When: Monday 14th September, 2pm UTC (8am Mexico City, 3pm London and Abuja, 4pm Berlin, 5pm Kyiv)
Registration (free): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/D_Wh9aIJQA66rYlvuSZwwg
The publication of two open access books by the Diamond open access publisher Open Book Publishers stimulates this webinar to explore openness and equity in the distribution of knowledge. The session will include presentations from an international cast from Australia, Germany, Mexico, Nigeria, UK, and Ukraine.
We will discuss topics such as: how openness can contribute to equity in access to education and the production of knowledge, how open infrastructure can offer new models of education, the creation of the ‘University without walls’ as a crisis response, the need to consider the politics of open, and a new framework for the distribution of open science. Presentations will be very short to allow a discussion of possible next steps in advocating for these ideas to transform higher education.
Chaired by Lucy Barnes, Open Book Publishers
Open publishing – Ivonne Lujano: Achieving equity and preserving quality without reinforcing global power imbalances
Open education – Igor Layman: Ukraine’s crisis response and the University Without Walls; Richard Heller – Distributing knowledge: openness, equity, and higher education transformation
Open infrastructure – Daniel Otto: Distributed Learning Ecosystems; Omo Oaiya: African Distributed Digital Campus
Open science – Yana Suchikova: Open Science Distribution as a framework connecting publishing, education and infrastructure
Discussion. Action/advocacy
Participants
Lucy Barnes, Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator, Open Book Publishers
Ivonne Lujano, Post-doctoral researcher, El Colegio Mexiquense, Mexico, and Community Manager and Ambassador at the DOAJ
Igor Lyman, Head of Department of History and Philosophy, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
Richard Heller, Emeritus Professor, Universities of Manchester UK, and Newcastle Australia
Daniel Otto, Professor of Educational Technology and Digital Education, European University for Innovation and Perspective
Omo Oaiya, Chief Strategy Officer, West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN)
Yana Suchikova, Vice-Rector Research, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
The open access books that have inspired this webinar:
- Distributing Knowledge: Openness, Equity, and Higher Education Transformation by Richard Heller
- The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices edited by Katja Mayer, Astrid Mager and Renée Ridgway
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