Open Education and Open Educational Resources for the Teaching of Classics in the UK

Abstract

New technologies have always introduced new possibilities but these invariably bring fresh problems with them. The expansion and wider availability of digitised teaching content is no exception in that there are now new affordances but as a result new questions that need to be asked about our practice as educators. It is true that academics within university departments have always shared teaching materials; a new staff member will generally take over existing established and perhaps core modules as well as developing new ones based on their research interests. However, over the last decade, a cultural change appears to have been