Speaker Bio
John Willinsky
John Willinsky is currently the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His most recent book, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006) has won awards from the American Library Association and Computers and Composition: An International Journal. Examples of his work, including the open source software designed to improve the access and quality of research, are available at the Public Knowledge Project which he directs at UBC and Simon Fraser University.
