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A new Australian OER advocacy narrative
February 18, 2023
Last year I gave a presentation to ascilite’s OEP-SIG entitled: Institutional Recommendations for Open Textbooks:...
Final report released, more Australian textbooks projects
April 5, 2022
While the blog has been used to disseminate incremental and in-progress insights and findings, we...
Community response to report recommendations
December 15, 2021
On the 5th of October I presented a summary of finding and recommendations of the...
Open Textbook panel discussion: 5th October
September 26, 2021
Please join us for a virtual panel discussion – Open Textbooks in Australia: updated, localised,...
Deakin’s 2021 OER grant program
September 19, 2021
This week’s guest blogger Angie Williamson Program Coordinator (Open Education) responds to some questions about...
Teaching students about cultural recognition and representation
September 7, 2021
Dr Johanna Funk participated as a named research participant in the open textbook as social...
New textbooks by discipline (thanks OEP-SIG!)
August 29, 2021
The Open Educational Practices Special Interest Group (OEP-SIG) is a grass-roots, practitioner-led community that advocates...
International accolades and new collaborations for La Trobe’s open textbooks
August 20, 2021
La Trobe Library launched their eBureau OER textbook publishing service in 2016. The platform enables...
Yarning about USQ’s ‘College Success’ adaptation
August 10, 2021
In 2020, University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Library staff developed an open text titled Academic Success,...
Can guidelines help weed racist textbooks out of libraries?
August 1, 2021
“Textbooks signify particular ways of selecting and organizing that vast universe of possible knowledge. They...