John Willinsky

Infobox_Scientist
name = John Willinsky


caption = John Willinsky
birth_place = flagicon|CAN Toronto, Canada
nationality = flagicon|CAN Canadian
field = Education
work_institution = Stanford University, Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia
known_for = Education technology, Open Access, academic scholarship

John Willinsky (born 1950) is a Canadian educator, activist, and author.

Willinsky is currently on the faculty of the Stanford University School of Education. Until 2007 he was the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Willinsky taught school in Ontario for 10 years and, with Vivian Forssman, developed the Information Technology Management program for high schools in British Columbia and Ontario. He is the author of "Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED", "Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End", which won Outstanding Book Awards from the American Educational Research Association and History of Education Society, as well as the more recent titles, "Technologies of Knowing", "If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research" and "The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship" -- the latter of which has won the 2006 [http://www.lita.org/ala/alcts/awards/blackwells/blackwellsscholarship.cfm Blackwell's Scholarship Award] and the [http://computersandcomposition.osu.edu/awards/distinguishedbook.htm Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award] .

He retains a partial appointment at UBC where he directs the Public Knowledge Project, which is researching systems that hold promise for improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research.

External links

* [http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/news-bureau/educator/Stanford_Educator_Fall%202007.pdf Stanford Educator, Fall 2007] reporting Willinsky's move to Stanford
* [http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/faculty/displayRecord.php?suid=willinsk John Willinsky] , Stanford faculty listing
* [http://www.lled.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/willinsky.htm John Willinsky] , UBC faculty homepage
* [http://pkp.sfu.ca PKP Homepage] , Public Knowledge Project Homepage (under Willinsky's direction)
* [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_Access Open Access recorded talks and speeches by John Willinsky] via Wikimedia Commons
* [http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10611 The Access Principle] by John Willinsky, MIT Press, 2006; full-text is downloadable after free registration