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Precarity, Solidarity, Professional Control and Structural Problems in Canadian Librarianship
Download2024-05-10
Canadian librarianship is a field beset by an interrelated set of structural problems. The field is divided into two castes of workers (“library technicians/assistants” and “professional librarians”) at both a professional and educational level. For MLIS holders, problems of precarious labour...
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How does our advocacy garden grow? Analyzing advocacy initiatives by Canadian library associations
How does our advocacy garden grow? Analyzing advocacy initiatives by Canadian library associations
Download2023-06-02
Carr-Wiggin, Merran, Gareau-Brennan, Céline, Carrier, Hélène, McNally, Michael B.
Advocacy initiatives by library associations seek to enact change by influencing governments and other stakeholder organizations for the benefit of libraries, their clients, and the profession of librarianship. This session will describe an exploratory study to see what seeds of advocacy and...
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Alberta Rural Connectivity Forum 2023 - Broadband 101
2023-11-06
This presentation provides an overview of broadband in Canada and the province of Alberta, as well as an introduction to the 2023 version of Understanding Community Broadband: The Alberta Broadband Toolkit.
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Broadband 101 (2022 Alberta Version)
2022-05-17
This presentation, given at the Alberta Rural Connectivity Forum 2022, provides an introduction to broadband in the province of Alberta. The presentation covers four parts - putting broadband in context; broadband technologies; policy and regulation and the 2022 broadband landscape.
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Developing Pre-Service Teacher Copyright Open Educational Videos: A Case Study
2021-06-02
Sheplawy, Samantha, McNally, Michael B., Adams, Cathy
This presentation provides a case study in the design of a set of openly licensed, interactive, instructional videos on copyright in the K-12 Canadian context. Knowledge of copyright is important for teachers in the K-12 context given the multiple ways copyright protected works may be used. The...
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Learning about Copyright Made (Mostly) Easy
2020-06-08
Guy, Julia, McNally, Michael B.
Understanding copyright is an important 21st century skill; however, learning about copyright tends not to be enjoyable or easy. The Opening Up Copyright instructional module series aims to address this problem through a series of interactive, openly licensed video modules on copyright. This...
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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...
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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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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...