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Analysis of Canadian Wireless Spectrum Auctions: Licence Ownership and Deployment in the 700 MHz, 2500 MHz and 3500 MHz Frequency Ranges
Download2018-02-02
Despite the Canadian government’s assertion that high-speed broadband access is crucial for economic and social benefit, there is minimal competition or availability of these services in rural or remote areas. Economic factors suggest that wireless technologies are best-suited to help rural...
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Fall 2019
The 2008 debut of Bitcoin marked the first large-scale implementation of blockchain technology, and its decentralized approach to monetary systems has since been abstracted to more generalized purposes like distributed computing. Platforms like Ethereum, which function as a global, decentralized...
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Copyright OER as Open Education Enabler
2019-11-27
Wakaruk, Amanda, Guy, Julia, Joseph, Kris, Fagnan, Luc, Sheppard, Adrian, McNally, Michael B.
Concerns over copyright issues can present a practical barrier to open educational resource (OER) use and adoption. The proposed presentation provides a case study of the University of Alberta’s Opening Up Copyright (OUC) instructional module series and discusses how the series improves access to...
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2021-06-04
McNally, Michael, Joseph, Kris
The 2020 Yale Report (Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review) recognized the importance of public interest voices in telecom policy and regulatory consultations at the CRTC by recommending the establishment of a Public Interest Committee. However, this recommendation wasn’t...
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Know your audience(s): Collaborating for Copyright Education
2019-10-30
Guy, Julia, Joseph, Kris, Wakaruk, Amanda, Sheppard, Adrian, McNally, Michael B.
This presentation examines a multi-unit collaborative open education project to develop instructional copyright modules as open educational resources (OER). These modules aim to serve two primary audiences:course-based graduate students, and the broader community of staff, students and faculty at...
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2018-01-01
This article explores the idea of viewing open access from a “post-open” perspective, where the idea of Open Access is no longer viewed as an abstract future state, but a current condition of the time. He presents the argument that by being in a post-open state, the remaining barriers to Open...
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2018-04-23
Created in 1971 by the Ohio College Library Centre (OCLC), WorldCat was rapidly established as the profession’s largest collaborative catalog. Four years after its creation a study of 47 libraries showed that the shared catalog had virtually eliminated the need for internal cataloging in small...
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2021-06-03
Joseph, Kris, McNally, Michael B
Rural access to high-speed broadband services have been an ongoing concern for Canadians, and this situation has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic (CBC News 2020; Toronto Star 2020). Despite ongoing efforts to improve rural connectivity, access to high-speed broadband has only been...
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Strengths and limitations of open educational resources to strengthen copyright literacy
2019-06-03
Guy, Julia, Joseph, Kris, McNally, Michael B., Wakaruk, Amanda, Sheppard, Adrian
The presentation explores challenges associated with the creation of open educational resources (OER) for Canadian copyright education. Tensions include modeling best practices for open content licensing in copyright-related material, balancing narrative engagement with precise information on a...
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Toward a critical approach for OER: A case study in removing the ‘Big Five’ from OER creation
Toward a critical approach for OER: A case study in removing the ‘Big Five’ from OER creation
Download2019-11-28
Guy, Julia, Joseph, Kris, McNally, Michael B.
While the literature on OER has problematized other important critical concerns (e.g. the use of free labour in the creation of OER or concerns about academic neocolonialism (Almeida 2017; Amiel 2012; Crissinger 2015; Rhoads, Berdan and Toven-Lindsey 2013; Weiland 2015), the role of proprietary...