Publications and presentations

On this page, I will try to list my publications, both peer-reviewed and not, as well as link to presentations that I have given. I will focus on material that is available online. You can contact me at shaklev@gmail.com.

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Publications:

• 2012. 国家精品课程项目:利用开放教育资源提升本科教学质量 [National Top Level Courses Project: Using OER to improve the quality of undergraduate education]. 开放教育研究杂志 [Open Education Research Journal], 18(1). Official abstract, PDF.
• 2011. A practical model of development for China’s National Quality Course Plan. (with Wang Long). British Journal of Educational Technology. Official copy, PDF.
• 2011. 中国国家精品课程项目：使用开放教育资源提升本科教学质量. Chinese translation of MA Thesis. PDF, central page with other formats, blog posts and supplementary material.
• 2010. The Chinese National Top Level Courses Project: Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Quality in Undergraduate Teaching. MA Thesis in Theory and Policy Studies, University of Toronto. PDF, central page with other formats, blog posts and supplementary material.
• 2010. Factors that Contributed to the Community Library Movement in Indonesia. Libri, 60(1). PDF.
• 2010. Community Libraries in Indonesia: A Survey of Government-Supported and Independent Reading Gardens. Library Philosophy and Practice, February. HTML, PDF.
• 2009. Peer-To-Peer Recognition of Learning in Open Education. (with Jan Philipp Schmidt, Christine Geith, and Joel Thierstein). International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 10, 5. HTML, PDF, EPUB, MP3.
• 2008. The literacy movement in Indonesia – access to books, creativity and love of learning. IFLA Section of Libraries for Children and Young Adults Newsletter, December. Pp. 11-13. Newsletter.
• 2008. Some observations and suggestions about the Rural China Education Foundation library programs at two rural sites. Short report based on visits to two rural sites in China. Paper.
• 2008. Mencerdaskan Bangsa : an inquiry into the phenomenon of Taman Bacaan in Indonesia. BA Honors Thesis in International Development Studies at the University of Toronto. Full text available on E-LIS in both English and Indonesian.

Peer-reviewed presentations:

• 2010. Knowledge Building for Web 2.5: Making the transition to a networked world. (with Sandy McAuley). Knowledge Building Summer Institute, University of Toronto, Canada. Slides+audio, Mp3.
  
• 2010. Equitable governance of multilingual Wikipedia. Critical Points of View: WikiWars conference. Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore. Blog, slides+audio, Mp3.
• 2009. Chinese OpenCourseWare – a Case Study of a Large State-Sponsored Program. Open Education Conference 2009, University of British Columbia. Video.
• 2009. Peer 2 Peer Accreditation and Recognition. (with Philipp Schmidt and Christine Geith). Open Education Conference 2009, University of British Columbia. Video.
• 2009. P2P University: Beginning the journey. (with Joel Thierstein, Philipp Schmidt, Delia Browne and Neeru Paharia). Open Education Conference 2009, University of British Columbia.  Video.
• 2009. Open Educational Resources in India and China: Re-shaping Periphery and Core? (with Kirk Perris). Presentation at OISE Dean’s Graduate Conference, University of Toronto, March 6. Slides+audio.
• 2009. A theoretical approach to accreditation of Open Education. Presentation at OISE Dean’s Graduate Conference, University of Toronto, March 6. Slides+audio.
• 2009. Global Concept, Local Practices: State of the Research on OCW in Chinese.Talk given at the Connexions/OpenCourseWare Consortium Regional Conference 2009, at Rice University in Houston, February 5-6. Blog post, slides+audio.

Invited presentations:

• 2011. Grappling with ideas: divergence and convergence. Invited talk at Connectivism  11 online course. Slides (PPT), slides (Slideshare), MP3, slides + sound (Vimeo), Elluminate recording. Extended notes.
• 2011. The Chinese Top Level Courses: Improving the quality of online courses in a new educational climate. CIDER session (Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research). CIDER session, Slides (PDF), MP3, Elluminate recording.
• 2011. My experiments with being an open scholar. Part of a graduate student workshop on publishing at OISE, University of Toronto. Slides.
• 2010. Town Hall on Open Access. Was part of the panel at this event at OISE, University of Toronto. My opening remarks (YouTube), full video.
• 2010. Multilingual Open Educational Resources for a Multilingual and Multicultural UWC. Invited plenary lecture at United World College of the Adriatic, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, Italy. Slides, blog post.
• 2010. What It Means to be an Open Scholar, and the Future of Scholarly Publishing. Lecture as part of Open Access Week 2010, OISE Library, University of Toronto. Blog post, slides+video, slides.
• 2010. (With Clare Brett). What can Open Access offer me as a teacher?: A guide to Open Access and to education resources you can use for teaching and professional development. Workshop as part of the Educational Technology day for Master of Teacher candidates. OISE, University of Toronto. Slides.
• 2010. Global Open Educational Resources and the University of Toronto as a Multicultural Institution. Lecture as part of Open Access Week 2010, University of Toronto at Scarborough and University of Toronto at Missisauga (delivered twice). Slides, blog post.
• 2010. Institutional knowledge.Guest lecture for KMD 1002: Knowledge Media Design: Contexts and Practices. Slides+video, video (including Q&A), slides, MP3, PDF.
• 2010. Peer-based learning, the Peer2Peer University, and research opportunities. Invited presentation at Clare Brett and Jim Hewitt’s research group, OISE, University of Toronto. Slides.
• 2010. The Chinese National Top Level Courses Project – using Open Educational Resources to Improve Quality in Higher Education. Part of the seminar series, Comparative, International and Development Education Centre, OISE, University of Toronto. Slides, audio.
• 2010. The Chinese Jingpin Kecheng project – a story of lending and borrowing, or international misunderstanding? Invited talk at the eLearning Lab, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai. Slides, audio.
• 2010. 谈精品课程、开放教育资源以及开放教学模式. Invited presentation at China National Curriculum Resources Center, Higher Education Press, Beijing. Slides.
• 2010. Open Educational Resources and Peer2Peer University. Invited presentation at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. Slides+audio, Mp3.
• 2010. Openness: For your research and for India. Invited presentation at Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. Slides, Mp3.
• 2009. Innovative Projects in the Publishing of Open Educational Resources. Open Access Week at University of Toronto 2009. Acrobat Connect archive, Mp3, slides.
• 2009. Conversation about Open Education with Leigh Blackall. Ogg, mp3, archive.org page, my blog, Leigh’s blog.
• 2009. 精品课程与开放教育资源 [Chinese OCW and OER]. Invited presentation at China Central Radio and TV University, Beijing. Slides+audio.
• 2009. 社区性学习 [Social learning]. Invited presentation at SocialLearnLab, Beijing Normal University. Slides+audio, video (poor quality).
• 2009. 理解开放教育的意义 突破教育资源的限定 [Understanding the meaning of Open Education, expanding the definition of OER]. Invited presentation at Department of Education, Central Minzu University. Slides+audio, blog, audio (mp3, ogg)..
• 2009. 国际开放教育 [International open education]. Invited presentation at Future Education Research Centre, South China Normal University. Slides, blog, video 1, 2.
• 2009. Open Education around the world. (with Jim Slotta). Invited presentation at OISE Education Commons. Slides, links, video and audio.
• 2008. Open Educational Resources and the Peer2Peer University as a Pathway to Developing Metacognitive Skills. Talk given by video at E-competencies: Building human capital for the 21st and 22nd centuries. October 31st, in Mexico City. Conference page. Direct link to Youtube.
• 2008. Open Research, Open Educational Resources, and Open Learning – Experiments and Ideas. Talk given to teachers of senior civil servants at Indian Institute of Public Administration in New Delhi. Invited by Dr. Usha Munshi. Slides+audio.
• 2007. Open Learning and Global Education. A two-hour invited lecture for Leslie Chan’s course ISTB01 International Studies and International Communications at University of Toronto at Scarborough. Slides.
• 2006. Free and Open Culture. Given in Indonesian at Al Azhar Islamic University in Jakarta, Indonesia, as part of their FOSS week (I was invited by the Linux User Group of Jakarta). Slides.

Interviews:

• January, 2011. Interview with 24 Hours, free metro daily in several big Canadian cities, about P2PU. PDF.
• November, 2010. Interview with Synkron (2:2010), magazine for Norwegian Association for Distance Learning. Article.
• July 12, 2010: Interview with University Affairs, Canada, about P2PU. Article.
• July 11, 2010: Interview with The Hindu, second biggest English-language daily in India, about P2PU. Article.
• June 7, 2010: Interviewed at Campus Tech Connections about P2PU. MP3, blog post.
• May 25, 2010: Interviewed by Alastair Creelman for Learning Net about P2PU. Swedish article, English blog post (Alastair), Elluminate archive.
• March 14, 2010: Interview with The Star, biggest daily newspaper in Malaysia, about P2PU. Blog post, article.
• February 2010: Interviewed for Galileu, Brazilian weekly about P2PU. Blog post, PDF.
• November 15, 2009: Interview with Quebec weekly L’Actualité about P2PU. Blog post, JPG.
• November, 2009: Interview with Herbst Radio Berlin about P2PU (with Philip Schmidt, Alison Cole and Neeru Paharia). Blog post, MP3.
• October 11, 2009: Interview with Chronicle of Higher Education about my research on Chinese OER. Blog post, article.
• January 18, 2009: Interview with Chris Watkins at P2P Foundation about P2PU. Interview.
• October 24, 2008: Interview with University of Western Ontario Gazette about P2PU: PDF.
• October 24, 2008: Interview (with other P2PUers) with Jeffrey Young at the Chronicle of Higher Ed about P2PU. Article (pay-wall), free version.