Would you like to know more? Here are some resources to expand your learning.
As we find more resources, or as you suggest them on our feedback page, we will add them here.
This hub contains collections of Open Education Resources (OER) curated by UNESCO and partner countries, which are aligned to the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (CFT). Here you can discover content and connect with other educators who are using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve teaching practice.
Open textbooks and social justice: A national scoping study is a report from Sarah Lambert and Habiba Fadel, published in 2022 by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education.
The BranchED Equity Rubric for OER Evaluation helps you to evaluate any OER for inclusion, diversity, and equity.
Training video 1 - Getting Started with Pressbooks
Training video 2 - Advanced Pressbooks Publishing
Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Tasmania have created the Open Education Licensing Toolkit. You can work through a list of questions to receive guidance on the most appropriate licensing for an OER that you adapt or create.
The University of Newcastle Library has mapped open textbooks to Foundations for Inspiring People: Academic Staff so that academic and teaching staff can align the use of open textbooks with the teaching and engagement matrix. You can find the mapping document below:
Alternatively, the Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS3) collaborative group has developed a matrix which shows academic and teaching staff how to use their adoption, adaptation or creation of OER in the process of academic promotion.
