Providing support materials and resources in your teaching promotes the acquisition of knowledge and makes learning interesting.
The Library can help you identify, source and provide access to appropriate and relevant resources that support key teaching activities of reading, watching, listening, investigating, analysis and production – different activities that help your students achieve learning outcomes.
The Library supports these activities via the Flinders reading list (Leganto), which is embedded in every FLO topic. Online articles, textbooks, databases, streamed videos and podcasts, and websites can all be added to a list with the click of a button.
Using the readings list, teaching staff can curate their student learning experience quickly, and students can navigate and access the resources according to their learning needs at the time that they need them.
Explore below the resources and services offered by the Library to facilitate access to the best resources for your teaching.
Finding the best resources for your topics is not always easy. It can be time consuming, with many databases and websites to visit and different accessibility options to review.
Want to explore resources yourself?
Explore a curated list of high quality online learning resources, suitable for a range of learning outcomes and learning styles.
Learn more about open educational resources and their benefits for both teaching staff and students.
Familiarise yourself with advice on sourcing and creating digital content for learning and teaching.
Want help finding resources?
The Library can help you find not only the most recent and accessible resources, but also a variety of material types to support the different ways in which students acquire knowledge and learn. Use Service One to submit a request.
Readings are the essential textbooks and reading materials assigned for a topic. The Library oversees their organisation and delivery via Readings lists (Leganto), which are accessed via your topic page in FLO.
With Readings, materials of all types - physical books, eBooks, online or digitised book chapters, scholarly articles, videos, newspaper articles, websites and more - can be assembled to create a structured, comprehensive reading list.
Create or upload your list directly in Readings and send to the Library for completion (including copyright compliance checks). Upload PDF documents in Readings, and let the Library manage copyright for you.
Using Readings is also the easiest and most straightforward way to ensure compliance with all licences, as the Library will manage copyright compliance.
Have you chosen a required or recommended textbook for your topic? If so, the Library and enrolled students need to know about it as soon as possible.
Notifying the Library enables us to ensure appropriate access to the textbook, in time for the start of your topic. Details will also appear on the student textbook page as well, so students can easily learn about required resources prior to commencing the topic.
Not sure what textbook to use?
Is a textbook required? Or would other online learning materials suit your learning outcomes better?
Have a look at these guides or make use of the Library’s expertise to help you identify relevant and accessible resources that best suit your topic, learning outcomes, and students.
Is there an open educational resource that could be used as a textbook?
If so, you can add it to your Readings list straight away.
The Library has put together a curated list of open educational textbook platforms that you can explore.
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