John Willinsky (born 1950) is a Canadian educator, activist, and author. Willinsky is currently on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Education where he is the Khosla Family Professor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and directs the

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Biography

Born in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

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, 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'' and of ''Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End'', which won Outstanding Book Awards from the

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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 won the 2006 Blackwell's Scholarship Award and the 2005 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award. 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 The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...

(UBC). Prior to that, he was an associate professor of education at the University of Calgary. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Willinsky also directs the

, which is researching systems that hold promise for improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research. In October 2009 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from SFU for his contribution to scholarly communication.Simon Fraser University Library
article from Simon Fraser University on the awarding of an honorary doctorate.

Publishing history

*''Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED'' *''Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End'' -won Outstanding Book Awards from the

and History of Education Society *''Technologies of Knowing'' *''If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research'' *''The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship'' *''The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke''

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John Willinsky
Stanford faculty listing
PKP Homepage
Public Knowledge Project Homepage (under Willinsky's direction) *.
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(PDF) is available. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Willinsky, John 1950 births Living people Activists from Toronto Algoma University alumni Canadian activists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Open access activists Stanford Graduate School of Education faculty University of British Columbia faculty

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