Lindsey Gwozdz

Lindsey Gwozdz is the Assistant Dean of the Library at the Community College of Rhode Island, having spent 11 years prior as an Associate Professor and the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Roger Williams University. She also serves as the Fellow for Open Education at the New England Board of Higher Education, leading its open education initiatives and helping to expand the awareness of Open Educational Resources from a cost-savings tool to be more inclusive of pedagogies that create systemic changes for more representative and equitable information creation, evaluation, and access. Lindsey has co-authored articles and book chapters that center social justice and pedagogical innovation with respect to open education, most recently a new framework for open education research that centers social justice: SCOPE of Open Education: A New Framework. Lindsey is a doctoral student in the College of Education at the University of Rhode Island, where she is undertaking an equity-focused research agenda, studying how identity plays a role in student participation in open pedagogy.