ABSTRACT

In 2018, RMIT University Library was awarded $5,000 fellowship from Libraries of the Australasian Network (LATN) to investigate opportunities in open educational resources (OER). The reasons behind the application were to advocate and increase the use of OER, increase knowledge and expertise in open licencing, and leverage support, advice and appropriate infrastructure from LATN members. The associated benefits to LATN would include the establishment of an OER community of practice and the development of shared tools and resources to facilitate the uptake of open educational resources at home institutions. This is the story of how the Open Textbook Initiative evolved and how a deliberate campaign to increase awareness and adoption of OER was created. Activities included delivering OER awareness sessions, aligning OER textbooks with selected subject areas, delivering an open textbook forum, with local and international speakers, and creating a savings bank for self-reported OER adoptions. The OER textbook hero program was developed to highlight the teaching challenges faced by academic staff and explore their responses. As a result of this activity, there has been greater visibility of OER and the discussion has evolved from textbook affordability to open educational practices.

摘要

2018 年，RMIT 大学图书馆从澳大利亚网络图书馆 (LATN) 获得了 5,000 美元的奖学金，用于调查开放教育资源 (OER) 的机会。该申请背后的原因是提倡和增加 OER 的使用，增加开放许可方面的知识和专业知识，并利用来自 LATN 成员的支持、建议和适当的基础设施。LATN 的相关好处将包括建立开放教育资源实践社区以及开发共享工具和资源，以促进国内机构对开放教育资源的吸收。这是关于开放教科书倡议如何以及如何发起一场旨在提高对开放式教育资源的认识和采用的深思熟虑的运动。活动包括举办开放教育资源意识会议、将开放教育资源教科书与选定的学科领域保持一致、举办开放式教科书论坛、邀请本地和国际演讲者参加，以及为自我报告的开放教育资源采用创建储蓄银行。OER 教科书英雄计划旨在突出学术人员面临的教学挑战并探索他们的反应。由于这项活动，开放教育资源的知名度更高，讨论也从教科书的可负担性演变为开放式教育实践。