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ECU Library has joined CAUL’s Open Educational Resources Collective

Monday, 23 January 2023

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    Open Educational Resources offer flexibility and increased resource access to support your teaching and learning. Visit the related Library Guide to learn more. You can also get in touch if you’re interested in publishing an open textbook.

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Broadly defined, Open Educational Resources (OER) are academic resources with licensing agreements that not only offer free and flexible access for individual use when compared with traditional publishing, but also allow other educators to adapt the materials for use in their units.

They include the following, and more:

  • eBooks
  • infographics
  • learning modules
  • online tutorials
  • videos

Open Educational Resources (OER) Collective

The OER Collective is an initiative of Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL).

It facilitates independent publishing by authors at its member institutions, and cross-institutional publishing.

In 2023, ECU has become a participating institution which will lead to new opportunities in academic publishing.

2023 OER Collective DIY Open Textbook Grant opportunity

Ready to write your next textbook, or interested in adapting existing openly licenced material?

Expressions of interest (EOI) for 2023 OER Collective DIY Open Textbook Grants are now open.

  • ECU academics, including non-ongoing staff, are eligible to apply .
  • There is up to $35,000 in funding available.
  • Expressions of interest close on Friday 24 February 2023.

The grant guidelines, EOI form and submission link are available from the OER Collective website (linked below).

Please note: A section of the EOI must be completed by the lead author’s institution’s key contact for the OER Collective. For ECU, this is Associate University Librarian Dr Nicole Johnston.

https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/grants/

Interested in publishing an open textbook?

You don’t need a grant to publish! If you have a general interest in publishing an open textbook and would like to know more about the process for publishing a textbook on the Pressbooks platform, Dr Nicole Johnston is available for discussions.

Please feel free to get in touch: n.johnston@ecu.edu.au

OER Library Guide

ECU Library hosts an online guide collating contextual information and links to free and adaptable teaching resources.

The guide helps to define exactly what OERs and Digital Rights Management-free (DRM) resources are, how they differ, and how to evaluate them.

In addition, it supports you to:

  • Find and utilise resources from traditional academic publishers that have few restrictions on student access
  • Find alternative or supplementary resources to support your area of teaching
  • Locate discipline-specific OERs
  • Find alternative, open access study resources that are freely accessible to students

Access the guide at: Teaching Resources: DRM-free & Open Educational Resources (OERs).

Further information

Read about the OER Collective online: https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/

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