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Precarity, Solidarity, Professional Control and Structural Problems in Canadian Librarianship
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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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Rotten by Design: Shortened Expiry Dates for Government of Canada Web Content
2015-06-04
Wakaruk, Amanda, Davoodi, Danoosh, McNally, Michael B.
This paper examines the Government of Canada’s Web Renewal Initiative and impact on the provision of web based government information. A content analysis of documents received through Access to Information requests reveals the government’s limited timelines for providing access to web content.
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Strengthening Spectrum License Deployment Requirements: An Analysis of the Path of Least Resistance for the AWS-3 Auction
Strengthening Spectrum License Deployment Requirements: An Analysis of the Path of Least Resistance for the AWS-3 Auction
Download2015-06-04
Rathi, Dinesh, McNally, Michael B., Evaniew, Jennifer, Stobbs, Robyn
This paper examines the impact of increased spectrum license deployment requirements used in the Canadian AWS-3 spectrum auction. The paper examines how the increase in deployment requirements will result in a greater number of population centres being served.
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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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The balancing act of collaboration, openness, quality and ensuring impact in the creation of OER resources
The balancing act of collaboration, openness, quality and ensuring impact in the creation of OER resources
Download2018-05-30
McNally, Michael B., Brailey, Michelle
This presentation examines the tensions in developing a large scale, institutional OER project and the care that must be undertaken in a project with a diverse range of team members, stakeholders and learners. The University of Alberta’s (U of A) Copyright OER project, funded through a Centre...
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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...