The Potential Role Of Open Educational Practice Policy In Transforming Australian Higher Education

Carina Bossu; Adrian Stagg

doi:10.5944/openpraxis.10.2.835

The Potential Role Of Open Educational Practice Policy In Transforming Australian Higher Education

Open Praxis

Volume 10 (2018): Issue 2

By: Carina Bossu and Adrian Stagg

Open Access

|Apr 2018

Abstract

Open Educational Practices (OEP) have played an important role in assisting educational institutions and governments worldwide to meet their current and future educational targets in widening participation, lowering costs, improving the quality of learning and teaching and promoting social inclusion and participatory democracy. There have been some important OEP developments in Australia, but unfortunately the potential of OEP to meet some of the national educational targets has not been fully realised and acknowledged yet, in ways that many countries around the world have. This paper will gather, discuss, and analyse some key national and international policies and documentation available as an attempt to provide a solid foundation for a call to action for OEP in Australia, which will hopefully be an instrument to assist and connect practitioners and policy makers in higher education.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.10.2.835 | Journal eISSN: 2304-070X

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Language: English

Page range: 145 - 157

Submitted on: Jan 23, 2018

Accepted on: Mar 7, 2018

Published on: Apr 1, 2018

Published by: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

open educational practice,

OEP,

OEP policies,

open policies,

higher education policy,

Australia

© 2018 Carina Bossu, Adrian Stagg, published by International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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