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Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Examining How Systems of Research and Education Still Reflect the Structures of Colonialism
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationOur knowledge systems exclude many perspectives because legacies of injustice are built into their foundations. Racism, colonialism, and other forms of discrimination limit whose voices are heard, whose interests are prioritized, and whose knowledge counts. Openness can create pathways to more ...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Examining the Roots of Universities in Slavery and Anti-Black Racism
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationOur knowledge systems exclude many perspectives because legacies of injustice are built into their foundations. Racism, colonialism, and other forms of discrimination limit whose voices are heard, whose interests are prioritized, and whose knowledge counts. Openness can create pathways to more ...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Congratulations to the Open Education Leadership Program Class of 2022
Open EducationSPARC is thrilled to congratulate the fifth cohort of the Open Education Leadership Program on their graduation from the program. The 2021-22 cohort graduating class includes 25 academic professionals from across the United States and Canada, officially bringing the program’s total graduate ...
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Monday, July 11, 2022
Announcing SPARC’s Knowledge Equity Discussion Series
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationSPARC's Knowledge Equity Discussion Series will provide an introduction to broad concepts and considerations of epistemic injustice and knowledge equity in the areas of academic libraries and archives.
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Monday, June 6, 2022
OER Resources to Help Equip Growing Field of ScholComm Librarianship
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
History of College Textbook Prices: Examining Past Practices and Emerging Models (InclusiveAccess.org)
Open EducationIt is well known that college textbook prices in the United States have skyrocketed for decades, at times outpacing even medical services and home prices. As a result, course material affordability and access has become an equity issue for a generation of students. However, in recent years the ...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Knowledge Justice (Online): Different Ways of Knowing and Doing
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationThis event is a public lecture component of the Knowledge Equity and Justice Spring Seminar. Anasuya Sengupta is Co-Director and co-founder of Whose Knowledge?, a global multilingual campaign to centre the knowledges of marginalised communities (the minoritised majority of the world) online. ...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Inequities of Article Processing Charges: How the Oligopoly of Academic Publishers Profits from Open Access
Open Access · Open Data · Open EducationThis event is a public lecture component of the Knowledge Equity and Justice Spring Seminar. Speakers Stefanie Haustein is associate professor at the School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) at University of Ottawa. She also co-directs the Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab), an ...
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