Open Educational Resources

OER collective celebration & farewell

OER collective celebration & farewell

2025 marked a milestone year for the OER Collective, celebrating both impact and legacy. An early success story came full circle when the OER Building Cost Planning, from the very first OER Collective grant round, won the University of South Australia’s Unstoppable Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. We also farewelled the Collective in…

Funded projects

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Funding rounds

Since launching in 2022, the CAUL OER Collective grants program has evolved in response to sector needs, program learnings, and strategic priorities. While our core goals — building capability, supporting collaboration, and promoting Indigenous knowledge and local relevance — have remained consistent, the structure of our funding categories has shifted over time to better deliver…

Grant program

The CAUL OER Collective Grants Program enables the creation and publication of open textbooks that address critical gaps in locally relevant, high-quality educational resources for our region. The program builds sustainable capability across Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities by supporting academic authors and libraries with funding, infrastructure, and community-based expertise. It prioritises Indigenous content…

Guides

The OER Collective maintains two guides to support library staff and authors in developing open textbooks and participating in the OER Collective. Open Educational Resources Collective Publishing Workflow The OER Collective Publishing Workflow is designed to guide authors and library staff through the basics of open textbook publishing, including: Open Educational Resource Collective Administration Guide…

History

The CAUL Open Educational Resources Collective began as a pilot project in 2021 under the Enabling a Modern Curriculum Program. The project was conceptualised as part of a larger body of work focused on enabling contemporary approaches to teaching and learning through open educational resources. The project began with the idea of providing university libraries in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand an…

Open Educational Resources Collective Pilot Project

Open Educational Resources Collective Pilot Project

This project established and tested a collaborative enterprise to support publishing open educational resources (OER) across CAUL Member institutions. The OER Collective pilot addressed the need for better infrastructure to support the creation and sharing of OERs in Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities.

Open Educational Resources Program

Open Educational Resources Program

The program's primary focus is the Open Educational Resources Collective, a service designed to enable open educational resource publishing in university libraries. This program builds on the work undertaken under the Enabling a Modern Curriculum Program from 2020 to 2022.

Open Educational Resources Collective

Open Educational Resources Collective

The Open Educational Resources Collective (OER Collective) is a capacity- and capability-building service designed to enable university libraries in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to start or scale up open textbook publishing. The service model is built around community and collaboration, with the intention of harnessing the collective experience across CAUL Member institutions to accelerate…

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