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This chapter explores the use of the open-licensed collaborative picture book format in the context of learning, teaching and assessment in higher education. It illustrates how it has the power to refresh approaches currently used across disciplines and professional areas to foster community and authentic engagement in learning and assessment, utilising the power of story. The authors report on three different open picture book projects, the process and products through which openly licensed collaborative picture books were co-created in Higher Education (HE) and what has been learned through these cases. The journeys of the development of these open picture book cases are shared with lessons learned. These provide insights into the specific projects and help educators consider the open and collaborative picture book format for further pedagogical applications in their teaching practice. Educators are invited to consider the use and co-creation of picture book activities as a tool and strategy to foster creative expression, community building, well-being and cross-cultural learning, as well as assessment and feedback as a process and product to engage students deeply in the learning process and boost creativity and belonging through relational pedagogy. The suggested activities provide food for thought to HE practitioners. They aim to help them set up their own open, collaborative picture book activities with educators and/or students.
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We would like to thank everybody who has contributed to any of the open picture book cases mentioned in this chapter, all those who have embraced the open and collaborative picture book format for learning and teaching in higher education, as well as Professor Margy MacMillan, the reviewers and editors of this book publication, who kindly read the draft and provided valuable feedback that helped us further develop this chapter.
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Nerantzi, C., Corti, P. (2023). The Collaborative Picture Book Format as an Open Educational Resource for Socialisation, Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education. In: Olivier, J., Rambow, A. (eds) Open Educational Resources in Higher Education. Future Education and Learning Spaces. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8590-4_5
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