Jim Groom 7pm Wed August 5th KCI What kinds of questions and opportunities does the open web raise for scholars? How can universities best support academic identity development and open web research among graduate students, faculty, and affiliated scholars? The University of Mary Washington in Virginia has been providing students, faculty and staff with an innovative, web-based platform that enables them to own, manage and migrate the digital work they create over the course of their academic careers. The initiative, called Domain of One's Own, recognizes and codifies the importance of digital agency for each and every learner on campus, and provides the means of enabling them to truly inhabit the web at scale. The platform undergirding the pioneering work of Domain of One's Own is the open web and it provides the backbone for a broader, curricular-wide push for cross-disciplinary digital fluency. In a session open to the campus, the public, and the UPEI MultiDisciplinary Graduate Research Conference, Jim Groom, founder of Domain of One's Own, takes up questions of identity and agency for 21st century higher education. An engaging and internationally-recognized keynote speaker, Jim will explore strategies and challenges for scholars looking to take control of their identity online.