Let knowledge grow from more to more, and thus be human life enriched
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Our Purpose
Open education has the potential to enhance learning and teaching at all levels in Australia. The challenge, however, is that awareness levels, and understanding, of openness still remains low. The Australian higher education sector faces increasing pressures, and practitioners often need to rely on professional or informal networks for support and learning.
The Australian Open Educational Practice Special Interest Group (or OEP SIG Oz, for short) is a practitioner-facilitated community designed to bring open educators (primarily those in higher education) together Continue reading “Our Purpose”
Meetings
Shaping the SIG
In preparation for the first meeting, we’re interested in the needs of the membership, and the direction the SIG needs to take to become a meaningful group to promote, and support OEP in Australia.
Inagural Meeting 2018
Following the very positive response at ASCILITE 2017, the OEP SIG will be holding its’ first meeting in early 2018. In the interests of open governance, and open structure, all of the details will be posted here. If you’d like to be added (more…)
Setting the Date [First Meeting]
Carina and I sent out an email today inviting people to the first meeting. We want to ensure as many people as possible can make it, so please vote on the Poll to help.
Please note the Poll will close at 9.00am (AEST) on Friday March 23, 2018. An announcement will then be made.
First Meeting Date is set!
The proposed time with the most availability was:
Thursday April 5th
1.00-2.00pm (AEST) – note: not Daylight Savings
Virtual meeting space: https://usq.zoom.us/j/9842006166
Please contact Adrian (adrian.stagg@usq.edu.au) if you have any difficulties accessing the meeting on the day.
Resources
Co-Convenors
Dr Carina Bossu
Dr Carina Bossu is a Lecturer (Learning and Teaching) with the Tasmanian Institute of Learning and Teaching at the University of Tasmania. Her current work and research is primarily focused on Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in higher education, more specifically issues related to learning, teaching and professional development. Previously, she was a Research Fellow with the Distance Education HUB (DEHub) at the University of New England. Carina has been the recipient of four Office of Learning & Teaching competitive grants exploring OEP, and was recognised in 2017 as a Fellow of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE).
Adrian Stagg
Adrian is the Manager (Open Educational Practice) at the University of Southern Queensland, and is a confirmed PhD student at the University of Tasmania. He is a member of the Global Open Graduate Network (GO-GN), co-Country Champion (Australia) for the OER World Map, member of the Executive Committee of the Open and Distance Learning Association Australia (ODLAA), and host of the open education podcast The Other Fifty Weeks.
