Werklund School of Education Featured Speaker

Hosted by the Werklund School of Education, this talk by Stanford professor John Willinsky will address the nature of what educational resources we have constructed this far into this new digital era. Willinsky will seek to offer a historical perspective on these changes by turning to the educational renovations that gave rise to the first universities, before considering a few of the encouraging implications for teaching and research that could well follow from what we have built online, as we continue to pursue the promise of education and the fascination of learning that emanates from towers such as the freshly renovated one at the University of Calgary. About the speaker John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education and director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University, as well as professor (part-time) of Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser University. He directs the Public Knowledge Project, which conducts research and develops open source scholarly publishing software in support of greater access to knowledge. His books include the Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED (Princeton, 1994); Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End (Minnesota, 1998); Technologies of Knowing (Beacon 2000); and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006) and the forthcoming Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Location:
Education Classroom Block 179
Speaker:
John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor of Education and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University; Professor (part-time), Publishing Studies, Simon Fraser University
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/werklund-school-education-featured-speaker