Clear the stage — voices from the community

The show­case for our com­mu­nity: Every month we select three mate­ri­als as OER of the month and pub­lish a quote from active twillo users.

The aim of twillo is to pro­mote the cul­ture of shar­ing — and we need many fel­low cam­paign­ers to achieve this. To show oth­ers why twillo is worth a look, we high­light those who are already active and present their best mate­ri­als. We proudly show­case the work of our com­mu­nity and hope that we can inspire even more peo­ple for open uni­ver­sity teach­ing. To this end, we not only award the title “OER of the month” three times a month, but also ask par­tic­u­larly active con­trib­u­tors for their opin­ion on twillo. We pub­lish their state­ments as tes­ti­mo­ni­als so that out­siders can gain an impres­sion of our work through real expe­ri­ence reports. We pub­lish the OER of the month and the tes­ti­mo­ni­als on the twillo web­site and via our social media chan­nels (Twit­ter and Mastodon).

OER of the month

At twillo, we select three OER of the month. The selected OER are char­ac­ter­ized, for exam­ple, by par­tic­u­larly inter­est­ing top­ics, out­stand­ing didac­tic con­cepts or well thought-out and well-struc­tured meta­data. In this way, we want to offer the con­trib­u­tors on our plat­form a show­case and rec­og­nize spe­cial OER gems. We will pub­lish the three selected OER on our home­page for one month, after which we will rotate.

When select­ing the OER of the month, we take care to reflect both the wide range of sub­jects and the vari­ety of for­mats that cor­re­spond to the OER in twillo. In this way, we try to pro­vide as com­pre­hen­sive an insight as pos­si­ble into the very dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als on twillo. We also apply the seven qual­ity cri­te­ria explained in our qual­ity self-check as far as pos­si­ble:

1. Sci­en­tific foun­da­tion
2. Recy­cla­bil­ity
3. Appli­ca­tion and trans­fer
4. Assis­tance and sup­port
5. Moti­va­tion and didac­tics
6. Struc­ture and ori­en­ta­tion
7. Design, read­abil­ity and acces­si­ble pre­sen­ta­tion
   

The more qual­ity cri­te­ria are met, the greater the chance that an edu­ca­tional mate­r­ial will be cho­sen by our por­tal as the next OER of the month.

Testimonial

We also like to turn the tables and ask active users for their opin­ion. We share these on social media and present the tes­ti­mo­ni­als on our home­page for a month with a pic­ture and a quote about their expe­ri­ence with twillo. They are then added to the tes­ti­mo­nial gallery in the Com­mu­nity sec­tion. We often ask the peo­ple whose mate­r­ial we have cho­sen as OER of the month. But we also col­lect other voices from OER prac­tice.

We have devel­oped guid­ing ques­tions to serve as inspi­ra­tion so that those pro­vid­ing quotes do not have to sit alone in front of a blank sheet of paper. Of course, users are com­pletely free to choose their own words. We have for­mu­lated the ques­tions that are most impor­tant to us and always pro­vide great feed­back:

• What did you like about twillo?
• What did twillo help you with?
• Where were the chal­lenges and what were the solu­tions?
• How do you like our inter­net pres­ence (web­site, por­tal, social media)?
  

The answers usu­ally high­light our best aspects and often have to do with our sup­port ser­vices and the infor­ma­tion we have com­piled on our web­site and social media chan­nels. How­ever, we have also received good sug­ges­tions from some of the state­ments as to how we can fur­ther advance and improve twillo. At this point, a big thank you to all the tes­ti­mo­ni­als so far and their won­der­ful feed­back!

twillo — an open community for you too

If you have found an OER that inspires you and that you think is out­stand­ing, write to us at info@twillo.de. Have our key ques­tions directly inspired you to pro­vide feed­back? Then share your expe­ri­ences with twillo and become our next tes­ti­mo­nial — we would be delighted. Sim­ply get in touch and take part 🙂