Copyright

Anne-Marie Scott, Brenna Clarke Gray

Published On

2023-10-25

Page Range

pp. 603–622

Language

  • English

Print Length

20 pages

27. Who cares about procurement?

Chapter of: Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures(pp. 603–622)
Good and bad tech make their way into HE classrooms via procurement processes, so understanding how those processes work – and how to hack them for the better – is key to any possible “goodness” in HE’s future. In this uniquely conversational chapter, Anne-Marie Scott and Brenna Clarke Gray discuss procurement from the perspective of administration and academic staff, and ask how it might be possible to reimagine a process that invites more voices to the table to make better choices about educational technologies together.

Contributors

Anne-Marie Scott

(author)
Board Chair at Apereo
Board Member at Open Source Initiative
Advisor at OpenETC
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4769-1577
https://ammienoot.com/

Anne-Marie Scott has worked in higher education senior digital leadership for over 20 years in the UK (University of Edinburgh) and Canada (Athabasca University), with a particular interest in open educational technologies. She is Board Chair of the Apereo open-source software foundation, board member of the Open Source Initiative, and advisor to the OpenETC (Canada). She has an MA in Literature and a postgraduate diploma in E-Learning from the University of Edinburgh.

Brenna Clarke Gray

(author)
Tenured Coordinator, Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6079-0484
http://brennaclarkegray.ca

Brenna Clarke Gray holds a PhD in Canadian Literature and is a tenured coordinator in Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC (Canada), where she is part of the Learning Technology and Innovation team. Brenna’s research interests include the history and future of open tenure processes, scholarly podcasting, and educational technology support as care work. She is powered primarily by righteous indignation and lattes.