Mahony, Simon; (2016) Open Education and Open Educational Resources for the teaching of Classics in the UK. In: Bodard, G and Romanello, M, (eds.) Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement. Ubiquity Press: London, United Kindom.

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New technologies have always introduced new possibilities but these invariably bring fresh problems with them. The expansion and wider availability of digitised teaching content is no exception and there are now new affordances but as a result new questions need to be asked about our teaching practice. Academics within the same departments have always shared teaching materials but a cultural change is taking place in universities, with academics using the internet to share their research (Open Access) and teaching and learning resources (OER: Open Educational Resources) more widely. This chapter draws on the experience of completed Jisc and the Higher Education Academy funded projects for the creation, use, and importantly reuse of OERs. These themes are developed, drawing on the experiences of the Digital Classicist, the Stoa Consortium and other open initiatives in Classical Studies, such as OpenLearn at the Open University and so situating these ideas within the sphere of the teaching of Classics. As part of this research a systematic search for Classics teaching material was conducted in the major UK repositories and beyond revealing a paucity in discrete classroom based learning-objects and hence raises more questions. This chapter also makes suggestions for best practice in the production of OERs and calls for the establishment of recognised standards.

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