Curated by Ash Barber, Jennifer Hurley, Nikki Andersen, Alice Luetchford, Angie Williamson, members of the Australasian OEPSIG, and selected content from SPARC’s OEP Digest. This digest is sponsored by ASCILITE.
Welcome to the April edition of the Australasian OEP Digest for 2023.
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Australasian news
- The University of Queensland (UQ) has published an open text on Using Language Data to Learn About Language: A Teachers’ Guide to Classroom Use, one on CRS Communication and Cultures Sustainability and one on Financial Management: A Contemporary Approach.
- Western Sydney University has published an open text on Sports Marketing by Dr Jessica Richards.
- Monash University has published Qualitative Research – a practical guide for health and social care researchers and practitioners.
- The University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has published an open text titled Common Client Issues in Counselling: An Australian Perspective, and it’s fourth text created by students – Co-creating Multimodal Texts with Young Children.
- The University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has also published an Open Publishing Guide for Authors.
- Deakin University has published a student-centric approach to learning Spanish – Español down under: Spanish for Australia and New Zealand.
- La Trobe University has published Foundations of Biomedical Science: Quantitative Literacy: Theory and Problems
- The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) has released a new strategy (2023-2025) which includes an Open Access Program and an Open Educational Resources program.
- Job Opportunities:
- CAUL is looking for Director, Strategy & Analytics (maternity cover) and Engagement & Administration Officer (maternity cover)
- Open Access Australasia are looking for a Senior Project Officer (contract)
- Bond University is hiring a Scholarly Publication Librarian
International news
- Creative Commons translations: New official translations of CC legal tools published in Danish, Frisian, and German
- Pressbooks and EBSCO Partnership: Pressbooks and EBSCO have announced a partnership to boost the discoverability of books in the Pressbooks Directory
Professional development opportunities
Conferences and recordings
- Webinar recording: Exploring the reality of open educational practice in Australia: An ecological perspective (23 February) presented by Adrian Stagg:
This webinar reports on research conducted at three Australian case study sites to map an ecology of open practice and to explore the values, motivations, and affordances of the university that influence practitioners. - Webinar recording: Authentic assessment as a pathway to professional practice (28 March) presented by Rebecca Cairns and Linda Guthrie: This webinar explores embedding OER-enabled pedagogy that supports authentic assessment practices in addition to a comparison of perspectives from both higher education and the school classroom, discovering new pathways from pre-service to in-service teaching.
Readings
- OpenStax has released a Guide to OER.
- OpenPraxis has released its newest issue.
- Contextualised open educational practices: Towards student agency and self-directed learning
- In the Library with the Lead Pipe has published two articles – Compounded Labor: Developing OER as a Marginalized Creator by Jennifer Jordon and A Genealogy of Open by Betsy Yoon.
Podcast
Calls for collaboration
- Calling all webinar presenters! The OEPSIG is seeking expressions of interest for the 2023 webinar program. Are you working on an interesting project? Have you overcome some OER/P challenges others might learn from? Are you a subject specialist and know how to find all the great OER in your field? Whatever your webinar topic is, we’d love to hear from you! Contact Ash Barber with your ideas.
- Blog submissions: The OER and Beyond blog are looking for blog submissions. Submit your blog ideas now.
- Blog submissions: The Digital Dexterity Blog, maintained by members of the CAUL’s Digital Dexterity Community of Practice is seeking submissions. The blog aims to communicate digital dexterity education activities and initiatives, including modelling a growth mindset towards acquiring and using digital skills.
The group is always seeking submissions from librarians working with information literacy and digital dexterity. If you have an idea for a blog post, want to write a blog post, want to know more about the Digital Dexterity Champions Network, or have any questions, please get in touch with the blog working group through emailing: digidexbloggroup@lists.caval.edu.au. Thank you to Sarah McQuillen for sharing!
CAUL OER Collective – New and featured titles
New open texts by discipline
Arts and humanities
- Using Language Data to Learn About Language: A Teachers’ Guide to Classroom Use by Ottaiano et al. (Aus)
- Español down under: Spanish for Australia and New Zealand by Castellano et al. (Aus)
- CRS Communication and Cultures Sustainability by Franzisca Weder and Marte B. Eriksen (Aus)
Business and management
- Sports Marketing by Jessica Richards (Aus)
- Introduction to Financial Management: A Contemporary Approach by Saphira Rekker (Aus)
- Social Cost Benefit Analysis and Economic Evaluation by Suzanne Bonner (Aus)
Indigenous studies
- Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives on Climate Adaptation by Resilience By Design Lab (Canada)
Education
- Co-creating Multimodal Texts with Young Children by Alberti et al. (Aus)
- Early Childhood Literacy: Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers, Birth – Age 5 by Pegorraro Schull et al. (US)
Engineering
- Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design by Jacqulyn A. Baughman (US)
Health and medicine
- Medical Terminology Student Companion by Grimm et al. (US)
- Qualitative Research – a practical guide for health and social care researchers and practitioners by Ayton et al. (Aus)
Sciences
- Crop Genetics by Suza et al. (US)
- Foundations of Biomedical Science: Quantitative Literacy: Theory and Problems by Julian Pakay (Aus)
Law and politics
- Drones Across the World: Law and Policies by Sarah Nilsson (US)
Psychology and social work
- Common Client Issues in Counselling: An Australian Perspective edited by Beel et al. (Aus)
- Introduction to Biological Psychology by Catherine N. Hall (UK)
New open teaching resources
- Diversity Exchange : Visual depictions of the health care professions often do not include ethnoculturally diverse therapists and patients. Stock videos and photos can also be expensive, limiting access to high quality resources to those who can afford to pay. This online library includes photos that depict therapists and patients from diverse backgrounds performing physiotherapy skills and engaging in healthcare-related activities. The Diversity Exchange is one way to enhance teaching and learning by integrating a diverse range of images.
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