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Hey, did you know that March 6th to 10th marks an international celebration of open education? Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources created with the intention of being freely available to users anywhere (SFU Library). In June of 2022, SFU announced their commitment to open edu
The SFU Library hosted an event to celebrate GIS Day on November 13, 2019, at SFU Harbour Center.
Open Education Week (March 4-8) is being celebrated across the globe this week with a goal to “raise awareness and showcase impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide.”
“You shouldn’t have to pay a large sum of tuition to have access to basic information,” Melissa Roach says when I ask her what she’d like to change about our academic system. “It just creates layers of mediation between scholars, media and the public, and that disconnect can cause a lot of misunderstanding.”
Are you curious about the conversation around issues of invisible labour in open scholarship hosted at SFU Harbour Centre during Open Access Week 2018?
Every year, SFU Library participates in Open Access Week to raise awareness of open scholarship and celebrate the work that the SFU community is doing to make knowledge public.
Take a look back at some of the activities we held in the Library for OA Week 2018, centred around the theme of Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge.
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