Note: the two sessions will be basically the same thing offered in different locations. You don’t need to come to both, though you are welcome to do so. The nature of scholarship is changing, as are the ways in which you can engage with your research community and beyond. As part of Otago’s Open Access […]

Why are governments, funders and institutions around the world mandating or encouraging Open Access? What does it mean for my discipline? My department? Me, as an individual researcher or teacher? Our opening event for OA Week offers an introduction to OA, its demonstrable benefits to the scholarly pursuit and the challenges it presents. This session […]

Following the successful project to produce an open text book and document the process members of the Open Minds Group have developed a useful guide to selecting open course resources. Refer: A Guide to selecting the right course resources This guide outlines activities for selecting, compiling and maintaining peer reviewed content that will provide benefits […]

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 […]

Yes, the heading is somewhat facetious, but the first UK-based rival to the massive open on-line courses (MOOCs) Udacity, Coursera and EdX has been announced. Led by the Open University, 12 UK universities will offer on-line courses for free from 2013, though details are sketchy at this stage. Martin Bean, the OU’s Vice-Chancellor, says that […]

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 […]