OpenCon 2015: Full Schedule

13:30 CET

Communicating openness effectively

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Nicole Allen

Director of Open Education, SPARC

Nicole Allen is the Director of Open Education for SPARC. In this role, she leads SPARC’s work to advance openness and equity in education, which includes a robust state and federal policy program, a broad librarian community of practice, and a leadership program for open education professionals... Read More →

Jan Gondol

OEGlobal, Switzerlab

PhD in Library and Information Science, caring deeply about open education, open data and open source. Worked & consulted for the Government of Slovakia on the Open Government Partnership. Fan of Python (co-organizer of #PyConSK) and Django.

comms workshop opencon pptx

Saturday November 14, 2015 13:30 - 14:30 CET
Thon Conference Centre - Main Room

Hands-on Workshop

13:30 CET

Grassroot organizing and campaigning

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Notes Document

Speakers

Genevieve Gebhart

Information Science Grad Student, University of Washington Information School

I am a second-year master's student in Library and Information Science at the Information School at the University of Washington, where I lead advocacy for an institutional Open Access policy. My Open Access engagement extends to the Open Access Button, the Directory of Open Access... Read More →

Juliya Ziskina

Juliya Ziskina is a third year law student at the University of Washington, currently living in New York City. For the past two years, she has been leading the implementation of an open access policy at the UW. Earlier this year, she advocated for the Fair Access to Science and Technology... Read More →

Saturday November 14, 2015 13:30 - 14:30 CET
Herald breakout

Hands-on Workshop

13:30 CET

How to harness Open to advance your career

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Notes Document

Speakers

Erin McKiernan

Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Erin McKiernan is a professor in the Department of Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a researcher in experimental and computational biophysics and neurophysiology, and an advocate for open access, open data, and open science. She is also the founder of Why Open... Read More →

Volunteers

Meredith Niles

Assistant Professor of Food Systems, University of Vermont

Meredith Niles is an assistant professor in the Nutrition and Food Sciences Department and the Food Systems Initiative at The University of Vermont. Meredith completed a post-doctorate fellowship in sustainability science at Harvard University. Meredith examines food systems sustainability... Read More →

Jon Tennant

PhD Student, University Library of Southern Denmark

I work informally on aspects of open access and open science more generally. For the former, this involves advocacy projects, such as a recent open letter to the AAAS, the development of the Open Glossary, as well as raising general awareness and engaging with open access issues on... Read More →

Saturday November 14, 2015 13:30 - 14:30 CET
Bergen breakout

Hands-on Workshop

13:30 CET

Keeping the lights on: fundraising for projects

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Notes Document

Speakers

Roshan Karn

Director, Open Access Nepal

My name is Roshan Karn and I am a final year medical student at Institute of Medicine, Tribhuwan University in Nepal. I established the organization named Open Access Nepal in early 2014, after attending the Berlin 11 Satellite Conference for Students and Early Stage Researchers... Read More →

Georgina Taylor

Co-Lead, Open Access Button

I am a junior doctor and public health student in Darwin, Australia. I co-lead the Open Access Button and advocate for Open Access and Open Education.

Saturday November 14, 2015 13:30 - 14:30 CET
Narvik breakout

Hands-on Workshop

13:30 CET

Starting projects from scratch

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Notes Document

Speakers

April Clyburne-Sherin

OOO Canada, Sense About Science USA

April is an Epidemiologist and Methodologist working to advance open research through advocacy and training. While at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, she received her MS in Population Medicine (Epidemiology) and created guidelines to improve pediatric clinical research... Read More →

Ahmed Ogunlaja

EpidAlert Informative Initiative

I started Open Access Nigeria as a medical student in 2013, just after being selected as a participant at the Berlin 11 Satellite Conference for Students & Early Career Researchers. I had conceived it as a vehicle to deliver on my application promises, a community of Open Access enthusiasts... Read More →

Saturday November 14, 2015 13:30 - 14:30 CET
Stavanger breakout

Hands-on Workshop

13:00 CET

Advocating Open Education On Campus: Ideas That Work

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Notes Document

Speakers

Nicole Allen

Director of Open Education, SPARC

Chardaye Bueckert

I am a early career professional with experience in open educational resource advocacy. I am interested in promoting openness through public policy and as a graduate student.

Brady Yano

VP University Relations, Simon Fraser Student Society

As a Board of Director on the Simon Fraser Student Society, an organization which represents over 26 thousand undergraduate students, my team and I have been pursuing an Open Textbook campaign at our university. Talk to me about student engagement and open textbooks!

Sunday November 15, 2015 13:00 - 14:00 CET
Stavanger breakout

Hands-on Workshop

13:00 CET

Fostering collaboration for open within, and between regions

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Notes Document

Sunday November 15, 2015 13:00 - 14:00 CET
Lillehammer breakout

Hands-on Workshop

13:00 CET

Sharing Data: An Introductory Workshop from OpenAIRE and FOSTER

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Notes Document

Speakers

Gwen Franck

Tony Ross-Hellauer

Scientific Manager, OpenAIRE

Open Scholarship researcher. PhD Information Studies (Glasgow). Interested in everything open (science, access, data, source, repositories, knowledge, society), as well as the history and philosophy of technology. Currently helping foster Open Access and Open Science in Europe and... Read More →

Sunday November 15, 2015 13:00 - 14:00 CET
Thon Conference Centre - Main Room

Hands-on Workshop

13:00 CET

Taking on the Impact Factor - how do we reform research evaluation?

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Notes Document

Speakers

Joe McArthur

SPARC

Iara Vidal

PhD Student, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Librarian and phd student from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, currently interested in alternative metrics for research evaluation and their potential for academics from peripheric/developing countries.

Sunday November 15, 2015 13:00 - 14:00 CET
Bergen breakout

Hands-on Workshop

13:00 CET

The Content Mine - Text and Data mining 100 Million Facts

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Notes Document

Speakers

Jenny Molloy

Manager, University of Cambridge | Biomakespace

Jenny researched mosquito genetic control for her doctorate at the University of Oxford. Now she manages the ContentMine, working with the rest of the team and the Advisory Board to keep us on track. She also coordinates the University of Cambridge Synthetic Biology Strategic Research... Read More →

Ross Mounce

Director of Open Access Programmes, Arcadia Fund, London

Enabling Access to Knowledge.

Sunday November 15, 2015 13:00 - 14:00 CET
Narvik breakout

Hands-on Workshop

13:00 CET

Wikipedia and Open Access

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Notes Document

Speakers

Daniel Mietchen

Researcher, School of Data Science, University of Virginia

- Integrating research workflows with the Web - Engaging the research community and the public with open research workflows - Using open research workflows in educational contexts

Sunday November 15, 2015 13:00 - 14:00 CET
Herald breakout

Hands-on Workshop

14:15 CET

***Unconference***

You can find everything needed for the unconference at opencon2015.org/unconference

Sunday November 15, 2015 14:15 - 14:25 CET
Thon Conference Centre - Main Room

Hands-on Unconference Virtual

14:30 CET

an open session on legal issues

Session Notes Document

Hello
I am (always :-) interested to talk about laws and regulations so this session is to share experiences, knowledge and FAQ on the legal aspects/barriers of Open Access.

I am interested to discuss the usual suspects a.k.a legal barriers : copyright, database protection, PSI-directive, privacy and personal data, licenses and last but not least disclaimers because my legal research covers those following topics but feel free to come, ask questions or present your own legal topic to discuss.

Speakers

Freyja Vandenboom

Sunday November 15, 2015 14:30 - 15:20 CET
Workshop Room Bergen: Table Swan

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

14:30 CET

Can Open Science end research misconduct?

Session Notes Document

It can be argued that the current model of scientific publishing both rewards cheating and makes recognizing fraudulent science difficult. Open Science has the potential to solve some of the problems concerning irresponsible research practices by increasing transparency and creating mechanisms that reward quality over quantity. There are some very exciting and successful open research projects, that can be also seen as field experiments in creating new open responsible research practices, such as the Polymath Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath_Project), or the NMR Lipids project (http://nmrlipids.blogspot.be/).

Openness also creates some new challenges, f. e. concerning the privacy of human research subjects. This shouldn't be seen as a barrier, but something that needs discussion and development of common practices.

I argue that the success of the Open Science movement depends on the state of research integrity: in order for researchers to start sharing their work they need to have trust, trust in not losing their work to plagiarism, being rewarded and recognized and on the other hand not being punished if the nature of their work doesn't allow high levels of openness, f. e. in medical science and in some of the human sciences.

Come and share your ideas and experiences concerning the different ethical aspects of open research practices!

Speakers

Heidi Laine

Sunday November 15, 2015 14:30 - 15:20 CET
Workshop Room Starvard: Table Gray

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

14:30 CET

Challenges associated with the integration and re-use of data

Session Notes Document

This session will centre on discussion of common challenges associated with the integration and re-use of research data, and how these issues may potentially be resolved or mitigated. The aggregation of information from various members of non-centralized research networks will be emphasized, particularly those dealing with data that are constructed with great semantic diversity. This session might appeal to people who are interested in linked open data, data curation, and related topics concerning the construction or maintenance of meaning ascribed to information.

Speakers

Zack Batist

Doctoral Student, McMaster University

Hello! I'm a PhD student in the field of archaeology, working at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. However I also have strong interests in information science, data management and other library and museum related work. In particular, I'm interested in the integration and re-use... Read More →

Sunday November 15, 2015 14:30 - 15:20 CET
Workshop Room Bergen: Table Cassidy

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

14:30 CET

Crowdsourcing an alternative to Beall's List

Session Notes Document

We all know that the anti-open troll Jeffrey Beall has burned all his karma, and rendered his purely subjective list of "predatory open-access journals" void of all value. DOAJ is doing stellar work on a whitelist of reputable OA journals; but do we still need a blacklist? Perhaps we do, if only as a foundation to studies like the one that Cenyu Shen presented this morning. So if we decide we do want a blacklist, how can we arrive at it? Reddit-like voting? Wikipedia-like editing? StackOverflow-like discussion? Who would own such a list? Who would stand behind it?

Speakers

Mike Taylor

Sunday November 15, 2015 14:30 - 15:20 CET
Workshop Room Starvard: Table Hannel

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

14:30 CET

Reducing publication bias, why and how

Session Notes Document

Publication bias, the probability that statistically significant and nonsignificant results are published, directly affects the efficiency of the scientific endeavour. A paper in PLOS ONE (Van Assen et al., 2014) indicates the scientific system is 30 times as efficient if we eliminate publication bias, so it is worthwhile to share stories about how we share our research (only publishing or also discoverable elsewhere, even if not published in the end?), whether we publish everything, and if we do, how we publish all of it. Potentially, we can create a document explaining practical steps a researcher takes to make it easier to publish everything.

Ref:
Van Assen, M. A. L. M., van Aert, R. C. M., Nuijten, M. B., & Wicherts, J. M. (2014). Why publishing everything is more effective than selective publishing of statistically significant results. PloS One, 9(1), e84896. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084896

Speakers

Chris Hartgerink

Tilburg University

As a young researcher, I work on problems that often cause people to feel uncomfortable. As such, I have quickly learned that people and institutions, despite saying they promote skeptical thinking, actually dislike it and refrain from embracing uncertainty. All the work I do is to... Read More →

Sunday November 15, 2015 14:30 - 15:20 CET
Workshop Room Starvard: Table Inayat

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

14:30 CET

Small-Scale OER Book Publishing: Strategies, Challenges, and Prioritization

Session Notes Document

I work in a small university OER publishing department within the Medical School at the University of Michigan. We have published several small scale book projects as EPUBs and included them in our collection on open.umich.edu. With limited resources in terms of staffing and funding for these projects, as well as limited technical knowledge, it would be great to share publication strategies and techniques with other like minded OER content creators.

Speakers

Jeff Bennett

Project Manager, Academic Innovation, University of Michigan

As a project manager at Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan, I pull together the skills, talent and resources needed to bring a faculty member's vision for a digital learning initiative to life by collaborating with faculty, course teams, instructional designers, digital... Read More →

Sunday November 15, 2015 14:30 - 15:20 CET
Workshop Room Starvard: Table Aldirdiri

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

14:30 CET

Unintended consequences of policies

Session Notes Document

Policies - while well intentioned often end up with resulting behaviours that were not planned. This session would like to explore some of these consequences.

Speakers

Danny Kingsley

Librarian, University of Cambridge

I took up the position of Head of Scholarly Communication at the University of Cambridge in January 2015, overseeing all aspects of scholarly communication at the University, including compliance with funder open access policies, research data management, intellectual property, staff... Read More →

Sunday November 15, 2015 14:30 - 15:20 CET
Workshop Room LillyHammer: Table Kupryte

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

14:30 CET

What more can funders do to incentivize open science?

Session Notes Document

Let's talk science funding and open science. Possible topics could include:

- What more can funders do to incentivize open science?
- Why hasn't the NIH adopted a stronger position on open access? How can we persuade them to do so?
- What problems would funders like to solve next? What issues are they facing?
- Anything else!

Disclaimer: My startup, Thinklab, aims to partner with funders to create incentives for open grant proposals and open proposal review. (I'm happy to let someone else lead this)

Speakers

Jesse Spaulding

Founder, Thinklab

I'm the founder of Thinklab, a platform for openly sharing and reviewing research grant proposals. http://thinklab.com Come talk to me about posting a research proposal on Thinklab! We're offering $1000 to support constructive feedback to help you improve your proposal. If you're... Read More →

Sunday November 15, 2015 14:30 - 15:20 CET
Workshop Room LillyHammer: Table Kuchma

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

15:25 CET

Advancing Open in Research and Education through Open Government'

Session Notes Document

OGP is a multilateral initiative that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance. OGP aspires to support reformers by elevating open government to the highest levels of political discourse, providing ‘cover’ for difficult reforms, and creating a supportive community of like-minded reformers from countries around the world. Because in OGP, civil society and government act like partners, YOU can take part as well, even if you do not work for the government. In this unconference session we will examine how. We are already working to establish a working group on open education, so there is plenty of opportunity to get involved.

Speakers

Jan Gondol

OEGlobal, Switzerlab

Sunday November 15, 2015 15:25 - 16:15 CET
Workshop Room Starvard: Table Gray

Hands-on, Project Talk and Discussion | Unconference, Project Talk and Discussion

15:25 CET

Creating open content (Khan Style Videos, etc.)

Session Notes Document

Learn how to create blackboard and whiteboard style educational videos. We will go over the tools you will need, the best software to use, and other tips and tricks.

Speakers

Brooke Miller

Doctoral student and online educator, The University of Texas at Austin

Brooke Miller is a PhD Student in Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin where she studies authenticity and the role that authenticity plays in informal science education. Brooke has taught at the college level using the "flipped classroom" model, replacing standard lectures... Read More →

Sunday November 15, 2015 15:25 - 16:15 CET
Workshop Room Bergen: Table Swan

Hands-on, Teaching a Skill | Unconference, Teaching a Skill

15:25 CET

How to challenge the Impact Factor and change research evaluation

Session Notes Document

We already know the journal Iimpact factor is not a good indicator for research evaluation. But, what can we use instead? In this session we'll build on the Research Evaluation panel presentations and the Taking on The Impact Factor workshop to brainstorm a campaign to empower students and ECRs pushing for research evaluation reform.

Speakers

Iara Vidal

PhD Student, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Librarian and phd student from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, currently interested in alternative metrics for research evaluation and their potential for academics from peripheric/developing countries.

Sunday November 15, 2015 15:25 - 16:15 CET
Workshop Room LillyHammer: Table Kuchma

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

15:25 CET

How to discover full texts and metadata?

Session Notes Document

Many software projects in the community involve finding automatically full texts of papers or metadata about them. We all use our own recipes, our favourite data sources, and it never works as well as we'd like. Enhancing our discovery tools takes time, and chances are that we are duplicating a lot of effort.

In this session, we will first invite everyone to share their experience about the tools and sources they use. How to find a PDF file for a paper? The email addresses of the authors? Do you scrape the web or do you use APIs? What would be the game-changing new data source for your project?

We will then try to see if some data or tools could be shared accross projects. We hope that this will increase cooperation in the community and initiate some common initiatives.

Speakers

Antonin Delpeuch

Co-founder, Dissemin

I'm a computer science student at École normale supérieure and Université Paris Diderot in Paris. With a group of friends, we have recently launched Dissemin, a service to identify paywalled papers and help their authors upload them to open repositories. Excited to meet you all... Read More →

Sunday November 15, 2015 15:25 - 16:15 CET
Workshop Room LillyHammer: Table Kupryte

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

15:25 CET

Open Humanities

Session Notes Document

Humanities research (including law and some of the more qualitative social science approaches) follows different rules, different practices and different narratives from research in natural sciences. How does this affect the potential and the impact of OpenAccess? What role should OpenEducation play? Let humanities researchers (and those from the sciences who are interested in "that other part" of academia ;) convene to discuss their experiences, share project stories and develop perspectives together!

Speakers

Hanjo Hamann

Sunday November 15, 2015 15:25 - 16:15 CET
Workshop Room Bergen: Table Cassidy

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

15:25 CET

Open Libraries? (Libraries need to step up and do more OPEN)

Session Notes Document

Libraries have not been great about walking the talk when it comes to open. How can we do this better? How can we coordinate and collaborate to build national/international solutions for publications and data, to ensure that our researchers can get their work out there sooner, faster, better?
Everything from library-based publishing to becoming campus advocates (and not just during OA Week) is up for grabs.

Speakers

Amy Buckland

Head, Research & Scholarship, University of Guelph

public scholarship zealot. #OAorGTFO. CHALLENGE LEGACY PROCESSES. she/her/hers. tweets are mine.

Sunday November 15, 2015 15:25 - 16:15 CET
Workshop Room Starvard: Table Hannel

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

15:25 CET

Technical infrastructure for Open Science

Session Notes Document

Science requires infrastructure. There are problems with the sustainability of scientific infrastructure, as highlighted in several of the Saturday talks. How can we improve that situation?

Science policy requires infrastructure too, yet that often comes only as an afterthought. Can we make science policy more efficient by pairing it with the development of infrastructure? How?

Speakers

Daniel Mietchen

Researcher, School of Data Science, University of Virginia

- Integrating research workflows with the Web - Engaging the research community and the public with open research workflows - Using open research workflows in educational contexts

Sunday November 15, 2015 15:25 - 16:15 CET
Workshop Room Starvard: Table Inayat

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

16:20 CET

Buffer Room

This is a session for other unconference sessions which want more time to talk

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Harold: Table Hilton

Hands-on Unconference

16:20 CET

Buffer Room

This is a session for other unconference sessions which want more time to talk

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Harold: Table Stodden

Hands-on Unconference

16:20 CET

Buffer Room

This is a session for other unconference sessions which want more time to talk

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Harold: Table Wiley

Hands-on Unconference

16:20 CET

Buffer Room

This is a session for other unconference sessions which want more time to talk

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Harold: Table Tracz

Hands-on Unconference

16:20 CET

Buffer Room

This is a session for other unconference sessions which want more time to talk

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Harold: Table Swartz

Hands-on Unconference

16:20 CET

Imagining OpenEducation in a less developed country context

Session Notes Document

This session aims to bring attendees to imagine OpenEducation in a less developed country context. It hopes to expose the challenges that exploring OpenEducation may face or is facing and invite attendees to discuss and proffer possible solutions.

Speakers

Akachukwu Okafor

Imagining Open Education in a less developed country Context pdf

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Starvard: Table Hannel

Hands-on, Project Talk and Discussion | Unconference, Project Talk and Discussion

16:20 CET

Let's discuss open grant proposals

Session Notes Document

Open access is important, but should we be thinking bigger? Let's discuss the idea of having grants submitted openly.

- What is the value of open proposals to science? And to researchers as individuals?
- How have grantmakers previously benefitted from open proposals (e.g. Wikimedia Foundation)
- How could the fear of having ideas "stolen" be overcome?
- Anything else!

Disclaimer: My startup, Thinklab, aims to partner with funders to create incentives for open grant proposals and open proposal review. (I'm happy to let someone else lead this)

Speakers

Jesse Spaulding

Founder, Thinklab

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room LillyHammer: Table Kupryte

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

16:20 CET

Open Acess/Open Education - 2016 conference proposal and general discussion of overlap

Session Notes Document

As a follow-up to the discussion in this mornings session, we will talk about the way that OA and OA advocates can work to improve and support Open Education.

This session will specifically discuss a possible presentation at the 2016 Open Education consortium.

If there's time, we'll also talk about the way that early career researchers can participate in the OER world.

- partnership with teachers to use and adapt OA materials as OER
- review and adopt open textbooks
- turn review articles into OER
- make images easy to transfer to OER

Speakers

Meredith Jacob

Project Director - Copyright, Education, and Open Licensing, PIJIP/CC USA

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Starvard: Table Inayat

Hands-on, Hack - Project Sprint | Unconference, Hack - Project Sprint

16:20 CET

OpenCon Application Review App

Session Notes Document

Do you love coding and enjoy Python programming language? Let's meet and talk! An application has been developed (using the Django framework) to support the OpenCon 2015 registration process (there were thousands of applications which needed to be reviewed) and it would be great to extend this app to make running the future OpenCons easier.

Speakers

Jan Gondol

OEGlobal, Switzerlab

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Starvard: Table Aldirdiri

Hands-on, Hack - Project Sprint | Unconference, Hack - Project Sprint

16:20 CET

OpenGlobalHealth

Session Notes Document

While global health involves large data to infer population-level behaviors and to inform policy makers, we are less inclined to share the underlying data and analysis codes due to patient confidentiality, national laws, and data novelty. Complex relationships with donors and legal requirements to keep patient data within a given country require novel ways to make global health research more reproducible and transparent. Furthermore, most of research in global health is still inaccessible to the public, due to closed access journals or decentralized conference abstracts/proceedings. Realizing this goal requires developing simulation/anonymization tools, enabling easy implementation of interactive visualization, and advocating changes in policy and research practices. This session invites health professionals, programmers, biostatisticians, policy makers, librarians, and others to discuss how to implement and advance for open global health. After OpenCon, the group of interested participants would continue collaborations in selected technical implementations, software workshops, and policy advocacy in global health.

Speakers

Neo Christopher Chung

Visiting Professor in Biostatistics, Wrocław University of Life Sciences

Modern biotechnologies collect an ever-increasing amount of data about humans and animals. To facilitate data-driven discoveries in genomics and global health, I develop and apply statistical methods for large-scale experimental and observational studies. At OpenCon, I am interested... Read More →

OpenConTalk OpenGlobalHealth Chung pdf

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Bergen: Table Swan

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

16:20 CET

Privacy + Openness

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Harold: Table Surman

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

16:20 CET

Teaching openness through practice in the classroom

Session Notes Document

What are some of the things we can do as educators to teach openness? This session is devoted to the ways in which students can learn to "do open" in all of their classes. Teaching openness can be a lot more than educating about OA/OER/OD, it can be done through getting students comfortable with doing things in the open.

After a short presentation from the facilitator, students and educators alike will be invited to discuss how openness can be made a part of student's activities, and how we might lead a charge to get all educators to incorporate open practices into their work as students.

Speakers

Juan Pablo Alperin

Associate Director, Public Knowledge Project

Juan Pablo Alperin is an Assistant Professor at the School of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, the Associate Director of Research for the Public Knowledge Project, and the co-director of the Scholarly Communications Lab. He is a multi-disciplinary scholar, with training in computer... Read More →

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Bergen: Table Cassidy

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

16:20 CET

The OpenCon Community Call

Session Notes Document

We started the OpenCon Community Call after OpenCon2014 - a forum for open, relaxed discussion via a monthly, hour long teleconference call. How can we make it better, more relevant and reach more people?

Speakers

Karin Purshouse

Academic Clinical Fellow, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

I'm a medical doctor who does research, both in the field of oncology, and I'm currently based in Oxford, UK, after a year doing brain tumour research at Yale University, USA. I've experienced first-hand the frustrations and limitations journal pay walls present as both a researcher... Read More →

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Starvard: Table Gray

Hands-on, Project Talk and Discussion | Unconference, Project Talk and Discussion

16:20 CET

The role of open content in the classroom (Blended Learning)

Session Notes Document

There are many different ways to use open content in the classroom. Let's share our ideas!

Speakers

Brooke Miller

Doctoral student and online educator, The University of Texas at Austin

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room Bergen: Table Cassidy

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

16:20 CET

What can non-academics do? Involving NPO's and Civil Society Organisations to promote open access.

Session Notes Document

It's very interesting to be at OpenCon as one of the few non-academic profiles, but as somebody who approaches Open Access from an NPO point-of-view (I'm a community coordinator Open Knowledge Belgium). We gather and support open advocates from community groups such as OpenStreetMap, Open Transport, Creative Commons, Open Tourism to Open Access Belgium.

The question that stuck in my mind after the first day of the conference was: How can we help promote and advocate open access and open education efforts if we're not part of that academic world? How can we support the message and create impact on the short and long term?

If this would be part of the unconference I would like to discuss how NPO's and civil society organisations can help. Is it our mission to create more general awareness? Or help create new open tools? Should/could we advocate open access on a political level? Or is this something I'm missing here? What should our focus be?

Speakers

Pieter-Jan Pauwels

Community Coordinator, Open Knowledge Belgium

Pieter-Jan Pauwels is a full-time community manager at Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium. He organises the Open Belgium conference and is in charge of open Summer of code. He also contribute and leads different projects such as DataWijs (Data Wisdom) a platform for young people to... Read More →

Sunday November 15, 2015 16:20 - 17:10 CET
Workshop Room LillyHammer: Table Kuchma

Hands-on, Group Discussion | Unconference, Group Discussion

18:00 CET

R2RC General Assembly (Optional)

Speakers

Joe McArthur

SPARC

Nick Shockey

Director of Programs & Engagement, SPARC

Sunday November 15, 2015 18:00 - 19:00 CET
Thon Conference Centre - Main Room

Hands-on

10:00 CET

Advocacy training

Speakers

Caroline De Cock

Coordinator, C4C

Created in 2010, C4C is a broad-based coalition that seeks an informed debate on how copyright can more effectively promote innovation, access, and creativity. C4C represents libraries, scientific and research institutions, consumers, digital rights groups, technology businesses and... Read More →

Dimitar Dimitrov

Gwen Franck

Monday November 16, 2015 10:00 - 12:00 CET
Concert Noble

Hands-on

12:00 CET

Advocacy meetings

Monday November 16, 2015 12:00 - 17:00 CET
Concert Noble

Hands-on

16:00 CET

Barriers and opportunities for collaboration for access to knowledge

Speakers

Melissa Hagemann

Senior Program Manager, Open Society Foundations

Melissa has been deeply involved in the development of the Open Access and Open Education movements, having co-organized the meeting which led to the Budapest Open Access Initiative which first defined Open Access, as well as the meeting which led to the Cape Town Open Education Declaration... Read More →

Monday November 16, 2015 16:00 - 17:00 CET
Concert Noble

Hands-on