Case Studies/University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare
USQ is keen to collaborate with organisations working to promote the OER movement. — Professor Bill Lovegrove, USQ Vice-Chancellor
Overview
The University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW) provides access to free and open educational resources (OER) for students, academics, and interested readers worldwide. USQ OCW contains sample courses from each of the University’s five faculties, together with courses from its Tertiary Preparation Program. Currently, the courses offered openly under Creative Commons licensing by USQ are:
- CSC2402 Object Oriented Programming in C++
- CMS2016 Communication, Technology and Policy
- EDU5322 Teaching Students with Special Needs: Behaviour Management
- ENG2002 Technology and Society
- FET5622 Creating Interactive Multimedia
- TEA5101 Exploring Teaching and Learning in Tertiary Contexts
- TOU1003 Introduction to Tourism
- TPP7120a Studying to Succeed: Planning your career
- TPP7120b Studying to Succeed: Planning your study program day by day
- TPP7155 General Science.
USQ is the only Australian member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, an international collaboration of in excess of 100 higher education institutions and associated organisations ‘creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.’
- ‘[T]o advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.’ – OCW Consortium
As defined by the Consortium, OpenCourseWare is a ‘free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.’ Institutions participating in OCW Consortium activities must be committed to publishing at least 10 courses in their name in a format that meets this definition.
The University of Southern Queensland is a multi-campus institution, with the main campus located in Toowoomba (150km west of Brisbane), a further campus at Harvey Bay (300km north of Brisbane), and one at Springfield (30km south of Brisbane). As such, USQ is classified as a regional university. Its current enrolment sits at approximately 26,000 students (equivalent to 12,100 EFT). Three quarters of the student body learns through distance mode. Whilst providing access to a selection of its materials, USQ notes that it does not grant credits or degrees, and does not provide access to faculty members through the OpenCourseWare programme.
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