- Wednesday, 9 April 2025
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - Zoom – further details provided upon registration
Join us for an engaging session during UTS Open Education Week where we showcase innovative open textbooks created by Australian academics and professionals. This event will feature presentations from authors who will share their experiences and insights on developing and using open educational resources. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore a variety of open textbooks, ask questions, and discuss the benefits and challenges of adopting open educational practices. Whether you are an academic, professional staff, or simply interested in the future of education, this event is for you!
Our featured presenters include:
- Dr Cat Kutay, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Science and Technology, Charles Darwin University. Cat led an ambitious textbook project about incorporating First Nations knowledge into engineering curriculum. See Engineering with Country.
- Dr Lisa Cianci, Manager Digital Learning, RMIT Library authored a unique learning resource that covers the history of colour theory, how we see colour, and how to use colour systems to mix colour and create colour relationships. See Colour Theory.
Presenter bios
Cat Kutay is descended from seafarers of Aboriginal and Celtic origin. Cat is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Charles Darwin University. She works with Aboriginal communities for online language learning, story sharing and data analysis as a way for Aboriginal culture and knowledge to be acknowledged and integrated into Australian engineering approaches. She develops online and blended learning resources using narrative techniques, simulations, games and multimedia to provide more immersive techniques and practice-based learning.
Lisa Cianci is a digital media developer, archivist and multidisciplinary artist from Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. She is currently the manager of the University Library Digital Learning Team at RMIT. Previously, Lisa taught across a range of courses for 19 years at Victoria University in digital media, visual art, research methods and sustainable creative arts practice. She has worked in archives and information management at the University of Melbourne in the Australian Science Archives Project and Melbourne Information Management, and she has a current visual arts practice including both analogue and digital media formats, with her current focus on real-time, code-driven animations, digital video, and physical installations that use fabric and discarded clothing as the media.
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