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Capacity-building in open education: an Australian approach
Addressing the gap between global open educational resource (OER) proliferation and the slow adoption of OER and open educational practices (OEP) in Australian higher education, this paper focuses on a capacity-building project targeting academics, academic support staff and educational developers. The conception, design, development, piloting and evaluation of an open, online professional development micro course are detailed, highlighting key aspects of the open design and considerations for sharing and reuse across higher education institutions. The open micro course introduces five key OEP concepts through five contemporary curriculum design topics, using knowledge co-creation activities which engage learners in iterative shaping of the course, and generate artefacts for demonstration and recognition of learning. Opportunities for short to longer term capacity-building which leverage the micro course are also discussed, in response to significant shifts underway in higher education funding and professional development priorities
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Supporting the adoption of Open Educational Practices through capacity building
The aim of the project is to design, develop and pilot an open, online micro course to support professional development in curriculum design. The micro course is one capacity-building strategy for the adoption of open educational practices (OEP) by practitioners in higher education learning and teaching. As an open educational resource (OER), the micro course is designed and licensed for reuse, reworking, remixing and redistributing