| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 68.44 |
| Liaison | William Van Ausdal |
| Submission Date | July 9, 2024 |
Flinders University
IL-56: Open and Shared Course Materials
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.50 / 1.00 |
Does the institution host a peer-to-peer exchange program or lending library that is explicitly designed to ensure that students in financial need have access to required course material?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the peer-to-peer course materials exchange program or lending library:
Does the institution provide incentives for academic employees that explicitly encourage the authorship, peer review, and/or adoption of open educational resources?:
Narrative and/or website URL that provides an overview of the institution’s incentives for open educational resources:
With regards to Open Educational Resources (OER), Flinders Library is a member of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) OER Collective: https://www.caul.edu.au/programs-projects/enabling-modern-curriculum/oer-collective
Through the collective, we have purchased 2 pressbook shells a year which we offer to Flinders academics who are interested in publishing openly. As members of this collective, we use the CAUL resources and our own expertise to advise academics on open publishing practices.
We have recently published our first OER on the Pressbooks Platform Building your career: a guide for students authored by Assoc Prof Michelle Gander. https://flinders.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=61FUL_INST:FUL&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&tab=Everything&docid=alma997411801501771
We also have four other open textbooks under development in a range of subject areas including Clinical Sports Nutrition, Mental Health, Geography and Business. Additionally, we are collaborating with the University of Adelaide on a criminal law open textbook. Where possible we have tried to encourage titles that replace very expensive and restrictively licensed textbooks which are difficult for either our students to purchase or for us to provide a freely available electronic copy.
The library have a page dedicated to Open Educational Resources https://library.flinders.edu.au/staff/oer
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