• Wednesday, 27 October 2021
    12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
  • Zoom – further details provided upon registration

Open Textbooks are a recent innovation in free, digital texts, and they’re the topic of this exciting panel discussion with experts from UTS and Deakin Uni.

Libraries are under increasing financial pressure from textbook publishers, with costs skyrocketing and limited licence conditions. Open textbooks offer a solution that is cost effective for students. They can also be modified for local needs to correct gender, socio-cultural and Indigenous under-representations in the curriculum. There is mounting research to show that students benefit from free textbooks in similar ways to scholarships and financial aid – by lifting grades and course progress rates.

In this panel discussion with Amanda White, Sarah Lambert (Deakin) and Mais Fatayer we look at the challenges of adoption, adaptation and creation of Open Textbooks. We’ll also look the Australian context and how open textbooks address redistributive (economic), recognitive and representational justice.

This event is hosted by UTS Library and the LX.lab as part of Open Access Week.

Zoom link

Zoom link can be found in your confirmation email upon registration

Register now on Humanitix

Feature photo by Armin Rimoldi from Pexels

UTS Video Meet Up #18 | 28 May

  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    2:00 pm-3:00 pm
  • UTS