The CAUL Open Educational Resources Collective will provide a shared open textbook publishing platform for participating CAUL Member institutions. It will facilitate both independent publishing by authors at participating institutions, as well as collaborative, cross-institutional publishing. The Collective will also build community and capacity across CAUL Member institutions to support open textbook publishing.
The Collective has three objectives:
Build infrastructure, capacity and achieve tangible outcomes to move the OER agenda forward at a national level.
Facilitate collaborative authoring and publishing of open textbooks in targeted priority disciplines, with a preference for the inclusion of local and/or indigenous content.
Allow Member institutions to publish their own textbooks (anticipated to be up to two per year) in disciplines of their choosing.
