A Digital Flying Dutchman : The Afterlife of an Open Educational Resource as a Public History of Exploration
2026/04/26 by Claire Brennan, Claire Ovaska, Don Garden · 4 voices
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Digital Education and Society #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #Open Education and E-Learning
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/00822884.2026.2659507
openalex publication_date 2026/04/26 · openalex created_date 2026/04/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
Abstract
This article describes a free, online resource developed in conjunction with a second-year subject taught at a university in regional Australia. It examines the foundations of that subject, the ambitions of the resource developed, and the afterlife of an Open Educational Resource (OER) developed for a subject that has since been disestablished. It discusses the potential of digital public history, analyzing the opportunities for (and obstructions to) publishing in non-traditional formats.
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