Topic 3: Open practice (2023/4)
A session outline for PG Cert HE participants on the Open Knowledge in Higher Education unit
PG Cert HE participants: This topic relates to the session on Friday 15th March 2024. You can use this page to prepare/catch up/review. The topic will be updated after the session has taken place to include any recorded content from guest speakers or tutors and any shared resources we create during the sessions.
You can find interviews with past participants of the unit here
Past participants and Student Team panel
In this session, we will be joined by past OKHE participants and members of the Library TLS Student Team.
💬 Contribute
During the course, we will ask you to share ideas and experiences and hear from your peers through 💬 Contribute activities like this one. Read the following prompt then add your contribution in the box below. All comments are anonymous. Please be civil and don’t share personal identifying information.
What would you like to ask the student team?
Reading and thinking about openness
You may want to engage with this suggested reading and contribute your thoughts:
Suggested reading:
The Cobblestone Path to and within HE for Disabled Students and Staff by Rachel Pearce, 2023. This submission from a past OKHE participant follows the sometimes uneven path through academia for students and staff with disabilities.
Building Capacities in Open Knowledge: Recommendations for Library and Information Science Professionals and Schools by Gema Santos-Hermosa and Javiera Atenas, 2022. This article explores good practices in capacity building in openness to knowledge for professionals beyond those with teaching or research focused roles.
Reflection
We encourage you to reflect on the unit as a whole. You may want to think about the following questions:
How would you define openness?
How does openness intersect with your role?
How has your understanding of openness changed?
