Speakers
Dr Mais Fatayer, Learner Experience Design Manager (University of Technology Sydney)
Dr Eseta Tualaulelei, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Curriculum and Pedagogy (UniSQ)
When
Tuesday 25th June
Melbourne, 12:00pm AEST
Sydney, 12:00pm AEST
Brisbane, 12:00pm AEST
Adelaide, 11:30am ACST
Perth, 10:00am AWST
Auckland, 2:00pm NZST
Participants outside Australia: convert to your local time here.
The event
This interactive webinar will be a community discussion about insights from a recent journal article examining two Australian case studies about OER-enabled pedagogy.
We will discuss how educators can tap into higher education’s cognitive surplus to enable renewable assessments. Our discussion will then explore how these practices support social constructivist models of teaching where students learn to create and share open learning resources for diverse communities.
Many of these themes are drawn from the following journal article by Mais & Eseta:
Fatayer, Mais, and Eseta Tualaulelei. 2023. “Making the Most of Cognitive Surplus: Descriptive Case Studies of Student-Generated Open Educational Resources” Education Sciences 13, no. 10: 1011.
During this event, participants will engage with these themes through:
- A short introduction by the authors, Mais and Eseta
- Brief reflective commentary on each extract from the authors’ perspectives
- Shared group discussion about themes highlighted by these extracts
- Close readings of key extracts from the article
- Concluding remarks from the authors
All are welcome. If you have time, we recommend reading the article beforehand, but this is optional and not a requirement for attending.
Full recording of this webinar
Speaker bios
Mais Fatayer is an educational technology specialist, learning designer and early career researcher. She has been working in higher education since 2008, during which she worked in several capacities at several institutions including the Open University, Western Sydney University and, currently, she is the Learner Experience Design Manager at University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Mais specialises in designing and co-designing engaging learning materials, implementing open learning strategies and resources and leading transformative learning and teaching projects. She received UTS Vice Chancellor’s Professional Staff Excellence Awards for High Performing Professional Staff in 2023 in recognition of her achievement to the work of open education at UTS. Mais received her PhD from the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics in 2016 from the University of Western Sydney. Her thesis is titled ‘Towards a sustainable OER model: Tapping into the cognitive surplus of student-generated content’.
Eseta Tualaulelei is a senior lecturer with the School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland. She specialises in intercultural education and teacher professional development and was introduced to open assessment through a university grant program in 2019. She has co-edited four openly licensed books involving 91 student authors (Gems and Nuggets, Hidden Treasures, Co-creating multimodal texts with young children and Hearts and minds: Mental Health support for schools) and she has researched open assessment for its value in improving student engagement and for increasing graduate capabilities. For these projects, she received an OEGlobal UNESCO Open Educational Resources Implementation Award for Excellence in 2021. She was also a contributor to the Special Issue of the Journal for Multicultural Education edited by Stacy Katz and Jennifer Van Allen which won a 2023 OEGlobal Open Research Award.
Australasian Open Educational Practice Special Interest Group 