Open Educational Resources: Exploring access, inclusion and academic success with open textbooks
Open textbooks are academic books, published digitally with open licences that allow everyone to freely use and share the resource. In this session we will explore the opportunities that use of open textbooks offers in creating more accessible and inclusive learning environments.
Presenter:
Joanne McPhie is an Academic Liaison Librarian (Open Research and Rights) at Brunel Library. She is part of the cross-institutional OER Community of Practice for the UK and Ireland group working to inspire the use and creation of Open Educational Resources in higher education.
Aims & Objectives
Aims & Objectives
- To reflect on the issues students, libraries and academics are facing in accessing and using textbooks
- To promote Brunel’s membership of the Open Education Network and their resource, the Open Textbook Library
- To demonstrate how open textbooks might be found, evaluated and adopted into teaching and reading lists
- To raise awareness of the future option to adapt and publish open educational resources to include more varied voices and perspectives in the learning materials
This session aligns with the Advance HE Professional Standards Framework in particular:
V2 - promote engagement in learning and equity of opportunity for all to reach their potential
K4 - appropriate use of digital and/or other technologies and resources for learning