Every year, Open Education Week (#oeweek24) raises awareness and highlights innovative open education successes worldwide. This international event is currently being celebrated from 4-8 March 2024 in more than 79 countries and across 38 languages.
JCU Library proudly supports open education and has recently launched a Textbook Affordability Project (2024-2025). Targeting first year core subjects, JCU Library invites collaboration with Subject Coordinators and stakeholders to identify high quality alternatives to core first-year purchased prescribed textbooks.
Over the past three years, JCU Library has been partnering with academic authors to create openly available educational resources through the JCU Open eBooks Collection. Through this initiative, openly available eBooks have been published in a variety of subject disciplines taught at JCU including nursing, health science, project management, history, french language, education and more.
JCU Library’s Open Educational Resources Discovery Collection is a growing set of high-quality teaching resources that are freely available and are aligned to courses at JCU. These resources have been curated by our librarian subject specialists to ensure they meet the needs of the wider JCU community
See our Open Educational Resources Guide to understand more about the benefits of Open Educational Resources and watch out for more openly available eBooks coming soon.
Contact us if you would like to collaborate on reducing prescribed textbook costs for JCU first-year students.
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