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Comment by Colin Elliott on October 9, 2013 at 8:33am

http://openaccess.athabascau.ca/

You are invited to participate in a series of FREE webcasts celebrating Open Access Week (Oct. 21-27, 2013).  These webcasts will explore major issues and opportunities of Open Access and Open Educational Resources.  Each session will feature an internationally known promoter and developer of open access and open educational resources research or ideas. Topics will include the following

• the state of the art in the distribution of e-textbooks;
• open access books in the K12 schools of Brazil;
• the open access situation in Canada;
• MOOCs and the open access movement;and
• the OER university initiative.

 

and other issues relating to Open Access internationally.  This event is sponsored by the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources (OER), Dr. Rory McGreal, the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL), and Athabasca University Library.

 

For more information and links to the presentations, visit http://openaccess.athabascau.ca/

Comment by amy buckland on October 14, 2010 at 4:11am

we've rebuilt our site and are flooding the branches with OA slides on public screens, as well as a public event. more info here - www.bit.ly/McGillOA.
oh and we helped with the CARL videos - http://www.youtube.com/mcgilllibrary

Comment by Patrick Labelle on October 13, 2010 at 2:06am

Events, announcements and other are now on the University of Ottawa's Open Access Web site at http://www.oa.uottawa.ca/