By Adrian Stagg and Emma Power, USQ In this final post, Emma and I will address some of the questions from the Course, and provide some newly emerged resources should you want to explore OER further. OER: Your Next Steps Firstly, we want to thank everyone who dropped by the […]

By Adrian Stagg and Emma Power, USQ It’s been a big week of discussion and exploration, and today we’ll wrap up the course – and build an OER. Join the Dark Side: we have openness Open education has been positioned as by some authors as ‘disruptive’ (and many other education […]

By Adrian Stagg and Emma Power, USQ In the penultimate post for this course, we’ll focus on the types of activities made possible by open educational resources, and provide some approaches to working with OER. ‘I’m not allowed to do that to a textbook!’ Discovering and (re)using OER Let’s start […]

By Adrian Stagg and Emma Power, USQ As this is the mid-way point of the Coffee Course, we’ll shift the focus slightly and examine the role of research as OER. Open Access Research: greater impact? Research, like learning and teaching, is one of the core activities at a university, for […]

By Adrian Stagg and Emma Power, USQ Today we’ll investigate the rationale for sharing content freely and openly, and look at some examples that could spark ideas for your own practice. Open Educational Resources: Giving Content For Free When I explain the concept of openness to practitioners, the most common […]

By Adrian Stagg and Emma Power, USQ In this coffee course, we’ll be exploring Open Educational Practice (OEP) and how it applies to teaching and learning, and research in higher education.  We’ll start the course by looking at the key characteristics of openness, the distinction between free and open, and […]