Hear Everett Community College Professor Robin Araniva talk about how they enhanced the classroom experience with relevant, local, open resources to supplement their Environmental Science and Marine Science course material. 

La Trobe's Assoc. Prof. Tanya Sherry adopted an open textbook to resolve student access issues in her first-year education unit, and Dr David Walker adopted an open textbook to modernise pedagogy in his first-year economics unit. 

If an open resource meets most of your criteria, consider whether you could edit, revise, or replace content to improve its quality and usefulness

• La Trobe's Dr. Mathew Marques adapted an open textbook for his social psychology unit, customising it to suit his requirements, while simultaneously alleviating the access barriers experienced by his students
• Arley Cruthers produced an open textbook by adapting existing openly licensed content

• A group of academics and librarians across Australia and New Zealand "hacked" an open communications textbook in a weekend.
• A group of Finnish mathematicians performed a similar feat

Engage your students in the development and use of OER, sharing a range of materials and knowledge, and integrating openness throughout the classroom

• Published on Pressbooks by Charles Darwin University, OER ebook Cultural Knowledges and Work Integrated Learning is an “iteratively compiled” collection of students’ case studies on cultural capability.
• Diverse Historical Narratives and Perspectives: A Collection of Learning and Teaching Activities 2023 - the teaching and learning activities in this book were developed by pre-service History teachers at Deakin University, Australia.
• Hearts and Minds is a collection of generic mental health case studies written by students at the University of Southern Queensland.