John Willinsky

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John Willinsky
John Willinsky
Born	Toronto, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Fields	Education
Institutions	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.

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.

[edit] External links

• Stanford Educator, Fall 2007 reporting Willinsky's move to Stanford
• John Willinsky, Stanford faculty listing
• John Willinsky, UBC faculty homepage
• Open Access recorded talks and speeches by John Willinsky via Wikimedia Commons
• The Access Principle by John Willinsky, MIT Press, 2006; full-text is downloadable after free registration