This year, marks the 15th annual Open Education Week. This
international event is currently being celebrated from 2-6 March
2026 to raise awareness and highlight innovative open education successes
worldwide. For details about global events and good news stories the official site for Open Education Week is a great starting point.
From our local perspective, JCU Library proudly supports open education and partners with academic authors to identify and advocate for openly available educational resources through the JCU Open eBooks Program. Through this initiative, openly available ebooks have been published in a variety of subject disciplines taught at JCU including nursing, business, health science, project management, history, French language, education, science and more.
Additionally, the 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 learn more about the benefits of Open Educational Resources and watch out for more openly available ebooks coming soon.
If you would like to know more about these and other solutions for reducing textbook costs for our students please contact Library staff.
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