Inspired by Digital Suppers, we encourage you to discuss open issues over a meal! This could be over a home-cooked meal, a potluck where everyone brings a dish, at a restaurant, or maybe at your school cafeteria! The goal is to create a relaxed environment to exchange thoughts, ideas, and knowledge about open issues - in your own life or work, in your institution or community, or in the broader academic (and non-academic!) world. Suppers can be any size, and you can invite friends. colleagues, or have an open call out in your community to meet others who are interested in Open, like you!
Suggested Discussion Topics / Questions:
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For graduate students:
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How do you discuss publishing openly with your supervisor?
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What do you feel are some of the barriers among your peers to adopting open practices in their own work?
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For undergraduate students:
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How do you - or people you know - deal with the high cost of textbooks?
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What strategies are there to convince your professors or department to adopt the use of OERs?
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General:
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Why is Open important to YOU?
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What are the most effective arguments to make when advocating for Open? What strategies do you use?
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What are some tangible actions you can identify and commit to advocate for Open - whether it’s at the level of your own research, or at the level of the institution?
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How does the concept of open access differ across cultural and geographical contexts?
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Recent news / events in the scholarly publishing world. There are a number of Twitter feeds that do a fairly good job at keeping up with Open Access / Open Data, and Open Education news that you can check for ideas; like the OA Tracking Project, or keeping an eye out the #OpenAccess, #OpenScience, #OpenData, and #OER hashtags.
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These questions are in no way comprehensive, and we hope to grow the list as time goes by. Have a suggested discussion topic to add to the list? Please let us know via this form and we will add your suggestion to this page.
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