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.

Presenter bios

	Dr Lisa Cianci Lisa 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 medi
	Dr Cat Kutay 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.
	Dr Elyssebeth Leigh Elyssebeth Leigh has been an educator for more than 40 years and revels in working with active and engaging environments to stimulate learning. Along the way she has worked with learners in places as diverse as Australia, Russia, and southern Africa. She relishes sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm for active learning strategies, and with this book, her hope is that readers will be similarly infected with enthusiasm and commitment to take up the ideas and challenges from the contributors to Engineering With Country.
	Timothy Boye Timothy Boye is an Associate Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney. His work engages with the human and social aspects of engineering, particularly focused on equity and diversity, disability, and working with and for communities.
	Michelle Bendall Michelle Bendall is the Scholarly Services Librarian – Law at Deakin University. Michelle has over 30 years of experience as a law librarian working in Victorian courts, academic and specialised law libraries.
	Kate Strong Kate Strong (FHEA) is a Digital & Information Literacy Librarian at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, supporting the School of Business and Law with scaffolding digital literacy skills across the curriculum. As Law Librarian, Kate works closely with the Law Faculty to develop students’ effective legal research skills, including the use of generative AI, for their future legal careers.
	Ash Barber Ash Barber is the OER Collective Senior Coordinator at the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL). Her substantive position is an Academic Librarian at the University of South Australia. Throughout her career in university libraries, her work has had a keen focus on the promotion and integration of open educational practices and development of inclusive open educational resources.