About me
Background/academic interests
I grew up in Norway, and have also spent significant time working and studying in Italy, Sweden, China and Mexico. My undergraduate degree was in International Development Studies at University of Toronto at Scarborough, during which I spent a year working for CARE International in Indonesia, and my honor’s thesis is about the community library movement in Indonesia.
My main research interests are how to open up educational resources, using open licenses such as Creative Commons, and peer-production of knowledge and learning, such as Wikipedia or WikiEducator.
I am especially interested in how knowledge production happens across linguistic borders, and am interested in promoting more exchanges between developing countries and the developed countries. I am part of a group that is trying to launch the peer2peeruniversity.org, as a design-research project in fostering collaborative learning around OER material.
I am also interested in promoting open access to research, both in general, and at OISE, and I maintain the mailinglist open-access-at-oise@googlegroups.com, which is open for interested students, faculty and staff at OISE. Finally, I am interested in academic production among graduate students and faculty in developing countries, linguistic barriers in academe, the peer-review process and the tenure process, non-traditional forms of scholarship, and multiliteracy within the academy.
Contact
E-mail: shaklev@gmail.com (also my GTalk and MSN account)
