CRADLE seminar Series: Open Textbooks in Australia: updated, localised, inclusive – Expert panel discussion- 5 Oct 2021 – Join us!
20 September 2021
The next exciting instalment of our CRADLE Seminar series takes place online Tuesday 5 October. Please join us for an expert panel session to discuss the Open Textbooks as Social Justice National Scoping study. Deakin University’s Prof. Helen Partridge, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), chairs the event.
Open textbooks are a recent innovation in free, digital texts that can be distributed at no cost and printed at cost-price. They can be modified for local needs, such as to correct gender, socio-cultural and indigenous under-representations, and misrepresentation in the curriculum.
Open textbooks are a kind of Open Educational Resource (OER) and are designed to be shared with appropriate attribution of authors. The scoping study examines if open textbooks can be helpful to social justice initiatives in Australia, as they have been overseas.
Dr Sarah Lambert, Honorary Research Fellow, Deakin University, will lead a presentation of the summary key findings from this research, followed by a panel discussion of its opportunities and implications.
Joining Sarah on the panel, is Ms Fiona Salisbury, Executive Director Library and University Librarian, La Trobe University; Prof. Kevin Ashford-Rowe, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Digital Learning), Queensland University of Technology; and Dr Johanna Funk, lecturer in cultural knowledges, Charles Darwin University.
Expert panel: (l-r) Dr Sarah Lambert, Ms Fiona Salisbury, Prof Kevin Ashford-Rowe, Dr Johanna Funk, Prof. Helen Partridge
As a highly interactive event, you are encouraged to please bring along questions for the panel. You can find more information on the project and its findings on the Australian Open Textbooks website.
When: 9.30am-11am (AEDT), Tuesday 5 Oct 2021
Where: Online
Cost: This is a free event.
Register now to secure you place for this presentation as part of our very successful seminar series!
