Shannon M. Smith

I’ll be at a couple of these! Looking forward to seeing my #OpenEd25 peeps.

"We aspire to a future where burnout is not glorified, where academics do not compete over who can work the most, where diverse work paces are considered for promotion."

Cripping Conferences: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Disability in Academia by Rhys Dreeszen Bowman and Leah Dudak 📚📜

How universities should respond to AI:
-Integrate computational methods training across soc sci and humanities curriculum (what we've been saying for years)
-Fund the development of AI *for research & science*
-Offer STS/Hist/Soc courses on computers/automation/AI

What universities are doing:

For everyone I got to see at #OpenEd24 (whether via a hallway, meal, or session) thanks for making it a good one! It was lovely to meet so many of you and reconnect with others. #community #opened

Yes! Let’s make this happen and continue talking #OpenEd24 folks.

Against Hope: OpenEd24 On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 9th, I presented a f2f session at the 2024 Open Education conference in Providence, Rhode Island. I understand that for various reasons, many folks couldn&#82…

If anyone else, like me, was Deeply disappointed in the Day 2 keynote at #OpenEd24, please check out this amazing refutation of all that crap from Robin DeRosa: bit.ly/AGAINSTHOPE

2024 Open Education Conference: How Far We’ve Come: Looking at Open Educ... View more about this event at 2024 Open Education Conference

Next up at #OpenEd24, "How Far We’ve Come: Looking at Open Education from a Different Angle," which I will be presenting! No notes to share, but thanks for any who attend: opened24.sched.com/event/1gu27/

Open and open adjacent folks: friendly reminder to submit your chapter abstracts for this forthcoming book! Deadline is Dec. 20th - full call and details here: bit.ly/3RTnp7P

Welcome Remarks: 0:00 - 17:50Keynote: 17:51 - end #OpenEd23 Opening Plenary: Keynote by Rajiv Jhangiani & Welcome Remarks

Giving the opening keynote yesterday at the 20th annual Open Education Conference #OpenEd23 was a huge honour and undoubtedly a career highlight. For those interested, here is a recording of my talk: youtu.be/nsZsDeeikWw?...

Fantastic, forensic, actionable work here from Becky Yoose and SPARC. "Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Elsevier's ScienceDirect" zenodo.org/records/1007...

I love reading my students' annotated bibliographies - esp when they explain how particular resources help them think differently about their own research projects. You can watch the light switch flip, observe the epiphany. And collectively, you can see the puzzle pieces start to assemble 😊

🚨Deadline for chapter proposals is December 20th, 2023.🚨
This book will be edited by Abbey K. Elder, Bryan Ricupero, and myself. Please share this call w/ your peers to help us reach a wider audience. Our goal for this volume is to showcase the diversity of Open space, and all that entails.

I am delighted to share a call for chapter proposals for an forthcoming ACRL volume, "Open Movements: Recognizing Challenges and Building connections." For additional information about this project, please see the full call for chapter proposals in Google Docs: bit.ly/3RTnp7P.