Apereo MicroCon with Ann Marie Scott (11.08.2023)
Channel: Apereo Foundation
Date: 16/11/2023

OSPOs in the Academic World

The establishment of OSPOs in higher education has seen a steady increase over the last few years, especially in North America where the support they can offer for open research is increasingly being recognised and funded. However, open education has a much longer history in universities, of which open source software is just one part. Drawing on our experiences within the Apereo community and beyond, this talk will unpack the concept of the “academic OSPO” in that wider open context, and highlight the full breadth of activities an OSPO could support in the academy. 

Anne-Marie Scott was Deputy Provost of Athabasca University, Canada’s equivalent to the UK Open University until March 2023. Prior to her time in Canada she held a number of roles at the University of Edinburgh. She is the Board Chair of the Apereo Foundation and a member of the Board of the Open Source Initiative. She has been part of the Government of British Columbia’s Digital Advisory Committee since 2022, advising on how to embed and upscale digital learning across the province. She is a member of the After Surveillance network, a global group of scholars and practitioners concerned with surveillance practices in HE, part of the leadership team of the OpenETC, a shared set of open technologies for post-secondary institutions within British Columbia Canada, run along platform cooperative principles.