{"id":7564,"date":"2026-08-17T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/article\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:35:12","slug":"spatial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/article\/spatial\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate National Science Week with Deakin Library and Cailin Mellberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you mix anatomy, 100,000+ images of the human body, open licensing, a sprinkle of innovation, and a whole lot of hard work?\u00a0 Tune in to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deakin.edu.au\/library\/teach\/open-education\/podcast\">Stories of Openness: An Open Education Podcast<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>this National Science Week to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Deakin Library is delighted to feature episode 8 of the podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/openeducation.podcast.audio\/@storiesofopenness\/episodes\/spatial-project\">Cailin Mellberg\u2019s OER Story: The SPATIAL Project<\/a>, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceweek.net.au\/\">National Science Week<\/a>. In this episode, we meet Cailin Mellberg, a lecturer of anatomy in Deakin\u2019s School of Medicine. Cailin is the lead creator of the SPATIAL Project, a world-first openly licensed resource that allows anatomy students around the world to access high-resolution 3D images of the human body for free. In a discipline where learning materials can set individual students back hundreds of dollars for a book, and cost institutions tens-of-thousands of dollars for equipment and subscription fees, <a href=\"https:\/\/dro.deakin.edu.au\/collections\/The_SPATIAL_Project\/8030365\">The SPATIAL Project<\/a>\u00a0is revolutionising anatomy education. Tune in this National Science Week to hear Cailin\u2019s stories about how he did it, how it\u2019s shaping learning, and the impact the experience has had on him as a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Listen here via Spotify (also available via <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/stories-of-openness-an-open-education-podcast\/id1893203910\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/openeducation.podcast.audio\/@storiesofopenness\/episodes\">Castopod<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/0eLaEYtk8hWPAdhny59LBN?utm_source=generator&amp;theme=0&amp;si=f16ca2b236094df8\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>About \u2018Stories of Openness\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And if you need more reasons to tune in during National Science Week, consider this: <em>Stories of Openness<\/em> is a research-by-podcasting project that using podcasting to both generate and share open research data. It\u2019s podcasting about science, and science by podcasting!<\/p>\n<p>Each episode features a conversation with a university academic that has written an Open Educational Resource (OER), which are special because they are published with an open copyright licence, making them free for anyone to download, save, share, or even adapt for their own needs. The podcast is for anyone who is curious about OER or just loves hearing interesting people tell their stories. <em>Stories of Openness<\/em> is licensed under a\u00a0CC BY NC 4.0 license, so each episode is an OER, open research data, and a non-traditional research output (NTRO).<\/p>\n<p>Access the OER via Deakin Research Online:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dro.deakin.edu.au\/collections\/The_SPATIAL_Project\/8030365\/1\">The SPATIAL Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the podcast:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deakin.edu.au\/library\/teach\/open-education\/podcast\">Stories of Openness: An Open Education Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Open Ed News is a regular publication from\u00a0Deakin\u00a0Library, publishing Open Education-related news for the Deakin academic community and the broader Open Education community. To stay in the loop, please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/article\/subscribe\/\">subscribe to Article<\/a>.\u202f\u202f\u00a0To access Open Education services, please navigate to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deakin.edu.au\/library\/teach\/open-education\">Open Education<\/a>\u00a0via the Deakin Library website. You can also\u00a0get in touch with\u00a0us at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deakin.edu.au\/library\/help\/contact-your-librarian\">Contact your librarian<\/a>\u00a0for support with OER searching and discovery<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:opened@deakin.edu.au\">Contact the Open Education<\/a>\u00a0team about your OER project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you mix anatomy, 100,000+ images of the human body, open licensing, a sprinkle of innovation, and a whole lot of hard work?\u00a0 Tune in to\u00a0Stories of Openness: An Open Education Podcast\u00a0this National Science Week to find out. 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