Free webinar: Open Educational Practice – what, why and how? Tuesday 9th December, 1–2pm (Australian EDT) 3-4pm in New Zealand OERs are only a part of the wider topic; OEP includes a different way of thinking, planning and managing for the open sharing of teaching practices. But how much is aspirational and how far have […]

{Media release from the Creative Commons Aotearoa NZ website, CC BY} The Media Text Hack Group is proud to release v1 of the hacked Media Studies Textbook, following a highly successful remote collaboration with participants from across New Zealand and Australia. The project was spearheaded by Dr Erika Pearson, Senior Lecturer in the Department of […]

Taking inspiration from a story about Finnish mathematicians who (successfully) attempted to write an open mathematics textbook in a weekend, this weekend (16-17 Nov) a group of intrepid Otago staff are leading collaborators from a group of institutions across Australia and New Zealand in writing a Media textbook in a weekend. Partly funded by Creative Commons, the project […]

In the next Open Scholarship Open Scholarship Community of Practice, Fieke Neuman from Anatomy will be joining us to discuss the plan to share Anatomy-specific teaching resources with other institutions over the Web using Creative Commons. Please come along and join in the discussion and bring a colleague/friend! Otago Open Scholarship Community of Practice October 14, 1pm […]

The current issue of the journal Open Praxis is devoted to the topic “Openness in higher education”. Have a read… http://www.openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/issue/view/2/showToc Several articles discuss the challenges of assessment – especially when learners want to credit their open learning to traditional/formal courses … What would you do if a student asked for credit from a Udacity/Courseara/OpenLearn/OERu […]

For those in Dunedin, Creative Commons Aotearoa NZ will be hosting a discussion session just prior to the opening of the NetHui South Conference (see this post). Anything CC-related can be raised, discussed or debated, though the focus will likely be on open access and Open Educational Resources. The session is open to anyone, regardless […]

Assuming that “UK” time equates to London (which is 13 hrs behind us) the New Zealand time and speakers for these free webinars are as follows: Tues 6 March, 10:30 pm-12:00 am NZ time (6 March, 9.30-11:00 am UK): Jim Taylor (University of Southern Queensland, an OERu Anchor Partner), Grainne Conole (University of Leicester) and Vasi […]