OpenCon 2016

Hi everyone! My name is Brady Yano and I'm the Assistant Director of Open Education at SPARC. Come chat with me about Connect OER, the OER Digest, student engagement, and grassroots organizing.Have a question about OpenCon? Just ask!

Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing at the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh. Also a sociolinguist, OpenCon alumna. Specialist in language and linguistics data, including citation, reproducibility, intellectual property, and archiving/sharing... Read More →

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 →

I am a medical student at Universidad Latina in San Jose, Costa Rica.  As a med student from a developing country, I experience the importance and the contribution Open Access, Open Data and Open education bring to the world on a daily basis. This is why I decided to get involved... Read More →

Federal and campus-level advocate working to make college more affordable and accessible.

I am Medical Doctor by profession , working in IFMSA-Pakistan (International Federation of Medical Students Associations) as Supervising Council Member and Coordinator of National Working group Open Access Pakistan. My area of interests are majorly Open access , Open Education... Read More →