I’m very fortunate to be part of a CAUL project group working on developing an Australasian open textbook collective. What this means is we’re creating a platform which collective members (which will be academic libraries) will be able to use to create and host open textbooks (non-commercial textbooks that are freely available to all).

I thought you might be interested in the collective model we’ve developed over the last couple of months which is introduced in the video in this blogpost: Introducing the Open Educational Resources Collective Pilot project – Enabling a Modern Curriculum (caul.edu.au)

The pilot will go live in January 2022.

This particular pilot project is one of a suite of projects sponsored by CAUL under the strategic goal of Enabling a Modern Curriculum. The blog I’ve linked too will include regular updates about all of the projects (which are mostly focussed on OERs (Open Educational Resources)) so you may wish to bookmark this page if you’re particularly interested in OERs.