Blogs and Opinion
1 Canada
Access codes/assessment platforms
Also see Homework systems on this page.
Access code costs continue to burden students – October 11, 2018 (BCcampus)
Accessibility
Accessibility in open educational resources is resilience – January 13, 2021 (Ksenia Cheinman, OER & Beyond)
Some things I’m learning about accessibility & open textbooks – January 11, 2020 (Christina Hendricks)
Trans-inclusive design – May 9, 2019 (Stephen Downes)
AI and OER
AI from an Open Perspective – August 10, 2023 (Paul Stacey)
Collaboration
Collaboration in hard times in higher education – December 9, 2019 (University Affairs)
Conferences
2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit Summary – May 10, 2019 (CCCOER, Dale Coleman)
Beyond Textbooks and OER: reflecting on #OpenEd15 – November 23, 2015 (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Copyright
Our Response To Canada’s Copyright Term Extension Consultation – March 9, 2021 (Creative Commons blog)
Two histories – May 19, 2020 (Fair Duty)
Federal court of appeal deals Access Copyright huge blow as it overturns York University copyright decision – April 23, 2020 (Michael Geist)
The authoritative Canadian copyright review: Industry committee issues balanced, forward-looking report on the future of Canadian Copyright Law – June 3, 2019 (Michael Geist)
What do trade agreements have to do with copyright? The Canada-US-Mexico Agreement and fair dealing – February 25, 2019 (SFU Library, Jennifer Zerkee)
From copyright term to Super Bowl commercials: Breaking down the digital NAFTA deal – October 1, 2018 (Michael Geist)
Video: Michael Geist on the impact of copyright and fair use on innovation – April 11, 2017 (Centre for International Governance Innovation)
Richard C. Owens: Fix Canada’s copyright law before it puts publishers out of business – July 26, 2016 (Financial Post)
Canadian judge says asking for a copy of a legally-obtained but paywalled article is circumvention – October 29, 2015 (Tech Dirt)
Creative Commons
A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator – January 4, 2022
Debt
Opinion: We need to rethink student loans across this country – August 31, 2019 (National Post)
Equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI)
Why open must be feminist – July 11, 2019 (Rebus Blog)
‘Open’ and ‘Inclusive’: what the heck are they? – July 3, 2019 (Medium)
General
The Alberta government fires the ‘non-compliant’ members of Athabasca University’s Board – October 6, 2022 (Tony Bates)
Who’s Zoomin’ Who? – April 1, 2020 (Ed Tech Factotum)
Digital Detox #1: EdTech and equity issues – January 5, 2020 (Digital Detox 2020)
More needs to be done to support teaching online in Canada – November 22, 2019 (Ed Tech Factotum)
From Lost to Belonging by Amanda Coolidge: OpenEd 2019 Keynote (transcript) and video – October 28, 2019 (BCcampus)
Whence the virtue of open – June 19, 2019 (Stephen Downes)
2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit wrap-up: 5 questions with the team – June 5, 2019 (Campus Manitoba)
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