Linking up Student and Academic Voices: Reuniting Higher Education and the Public Sphere Through OER

This case study reflects on an open education practices (OEP) pilot project situated in a third-year history capstone course at La Trobe University: Making History: Communicating the Past (HIS3MHI). The project unites the voices of students and academics in showcasing Australian history for a general audience by using OER to publish multimodal student assessments. This generated a collection of historical writing that bridges the divide between the academic world and public history. We were inspired by projects implementing renewable assignments through student-generated OER (Fatayer & Tualaulelei, 2023).