Funding of OER at universities in Lower Saxony (11/2020–06/2023)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Vietor

The aim of the project is to develop and test dig­i­tal, inter­ac­tive teaching/learning mate­ri­als to sup­port the “design of addi­tively man­u­fac­tured com­po­nents.” Addi­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nol­ogy (3D print­ing) allows almost any con­tours, bionic struc­tures, or graded mate­ri­als to be pro­duced, based on design and mate­r­ial free­dom.

The project materials:

• Design for addi­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing (opens in new tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Heinke Röbken

The aim of the project is to develop, revise, and dig­i­tize open edu­ca­tional resources (OER) in the field of man­age­ment of edu­ca­tional and sci­en­tific insti­tu­tions.

The project materials:

• Bud­get­ing and Financ­ing (öffnet in neuem Tab), Fund­ing Allo­ca­tion (Basics) (öffnet in neuem Tab) & Fund­ing Allo­ca­tion Tools (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Matthias Schu­mann

The aim of the project is to com­pre­hen­sively address the topic of dig­i­tiz­ing busi­ness processes in com­pa­nies, both from a method­olog­i­cal per­spec­tive and from an appli­ca­tion-ori­ented man­age­ment per­spec­tive, tak­ing into account key fun­da­men­tals and cur­rent trends, and to make this infor­ma­tion avail­able as open edu­ca­tional resources (OER).

The project materials:

• Dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies to sup­port busi­ness processes in dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Bern­hard Hiebl

The aim of the project is to ini­ti­ate an OER col­lec­tion on the topic of “Ani­mal Wel­fare and Ethics.” The topic of ani­mal welfare—and increas­ingly ani­mal rights—is a socially con­tro­ver­sial issue that is of utmost impor­tance in human med­i­cine, vet­eri­nary med­i­cine, den­tistry, and the nat­ural sci­ences due to the ani­mal test­ing car­ried out in these fields.

The project materials:

• Alter­na­tives to ani­mal test­ing (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Tim Rie­ni­ets

The aim of the project is 1.) to develop an OER in the field of ‘urban devel­op­ment research’ by inno­v­a­tively link­ing exist­ing, partly ana­log media and Google Maps; and 2.) to estab­lish the OER as a learn­ing and teach­ing medium at uni­ver­si­ties in Ger­many and abroad.

The project materials:

• Vir­tual City Tours (öffnet in neuem Tab) & Uuur­ble Web­site (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Clemens Hil­len­brand

The project aims to develop inno­v­a­tive OER mate­ri­als that sup­port teach­ing in the con­text of train­ing teach­ers for inclu­sion and het­ero­gene­ity and enrich teacher train­ing with a per­spec­tive that is oth­er­wise dif­fi­cult to access.

The project materials:

• OER for Teacher Train­ing (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Karsten Müller

The aim of the project is to develop dig­i­tal micro-inter­ven­tions to pro­mote inter­cul­tural and diver­sity com­pe­tence among stu­dents. The goal is to cre­ate flex­i­ble, sci­en­tif­i­cally based open edu­ca­tional resources (OER) for teach­ing. Based on the didac­tic PITT model (Hoberg, 1988), short, self-con­tained train­ing sequences and case stud­ies will be dig­i­tally imple­mented for this pur­pose.

The project materials:

• Ready for a Col­or­ful World: Microin­t­er­ven­tions to Pro­mote Inter­cul­tural Com­pe­tence (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Illustrative Vector Analysis for the Introductory Phase of Studies — Development and Distribution of OER for an Illustrative Introduction to Mathematical Concepts in Physics and Engineering Degree Programs

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Pas­cal Klein & Prof. Dr. Nina Gunkel­mann

The project aims to develop inno­v­a­tive teach­ing and learn­ing mate­ri­als on the sub­ject of vec­tor analy­sis. Dig­i­tal learn­ing envi­ron­ments and sci­ence-related appli­ca­tion exam­ples are being designed, tak­ing into account a vari­ety of didac­tic approaches such as mul­ti­ple rep­re­sen­ta­tions, sim­u­la­tions, and eye track­ing. These will be made avail­able to stu­dents and teach­ers of physics and engi­neer­ing courses as flex­i­ble, research-based open edu­ca­tional resources (OER).

The project materials:

• Vec­tor­analy­sis in Physics und Tech­nol­ogy (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Bar­bara Schaff & Prof. Dr. Nor­bert Lennartz

With this project, we aim to facil­i­tate the struc­tured and appli­ca­tion-ori­ented teach­ing of basic knowl­edge in Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture in var­i­ous media for­mats, con­sol­i­date acquired knowl­edge, and cre­ate the oppor­tu­nity to effi­ciently use indi­vid­ual learn­ing units for revi­sion in sem­i­nars or for exam prepa­ra­tion.

The project materials:

• Lit­er­ary Terms (öffnet in neuem Tab) & Lit­er­ary Peri­ods (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Human-Animal Relationships from a Regulatory and Ethical Perspective: Focus: Agricultural Livestock Farming with Special Consideration of the One Health Concept

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Bern­hard Hiebl & Dr. Mar­cel Mertz, M.A.

As part of this joint project between TiHo and MHH, there are plans to expand and develop the OER col­lec­tion “Ani­mal Wel­fare and Ethics” on the Lower Sax­ony OER plat­form “Twillo” to include OER con­tri­bu­tions on agri­cul­tural live­stock farm­ing. Live­stock farm­ing will also be con­sid­ered from the per­spec­tive of pub­lic health ethics, tak­ing into account the One Health con­cept. This is jus­ti­fied by the great impor­tance of agri­cul­ture for Lower Sax­ony. Agri­cul­ture accounts for 8.9% of the state’s gross domes­tic prod­uct. The planned OER will address the eco­nomic impor­tance of the indi­vid­ual live­stock farm­ing sec­tors as well as the dif­fer­ent forms of ani­mal hus­bandry and the related gov­ern­ment ani­mal wel­fare ini­tia­tive. Ani­mal ethics, as an estab­lished branch of philo­soph­i­cal ethics, is some­times very crit­i­cal of agri­cul­tural live­stock farm­ing. How­ever, the eth­i­cal debate on agri­cul­tural live­stock farm­ing from the per­spec­tive of med­ical and pub­lic health ethics remains largely unad­dressed, espe­cially in Ger­man-speak­ing coun­tries. There­fore, the OERs are also intended to help Twillo users under­stand the basics of the human-ani­mal rela­tion­ship in agri­cul­tural live­stock farm­ing.

The project materials:

• Alter­na­tives to ani­mal test­ing (öffnet in neuem Tab)

OER_ingIT – Development and Testing of Teaching and Learning Modules for the Development and Use of Digital Tools in Engineering

Contact:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebas­t­ian Heimbs & Prof. Dr.-Ing. David Inker­mann

In addi­tion to solid tech­ni­cal knowl­edge, engi­neers need inter­dis­ci­pli­nary fun­da­men­tals in com­puter sci­ence in order to be able to apply and develop soft­ware tools for solv­ing engi­neer­ing prob­lems, as infor­ma­tion pro­cess­ing is an inte­gral part of today’s prod­ucts. The OER_ingIT project aims to develop and test mul­ti­me­dia, inter­ac­tive teach­ing and learn­ing mod­ules (LLMs) for teach­ing and apply­ing IT meth­ods and tools in engi­neer­ing. Based on typ­i­cal engi­neer­ing prob­lems and their solu­tion steps, LLM are defined in a mod­u­lar way for dif­fer­ent areas of knowl­edge in order to pro­mote the action-ori­ented acqui­si­tion of meth­ods and tools and to enable learn­ing strate­gies adapted to indi­vid­ual prior knowl­edge.

The project materials:

• Teach­ing and Learn­ing Mod­ules on Python Pro­gram­ming in Engi­neer­ing (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Heinke Röbken & Prof. Dr. Dirk Fis­cher

The aim of the project is to develop, revise, and dig­i­tize open edu­ca­tional resources (OER) in basic busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion and eco­nom­ics sub­jects. To this end, exist­ing teach­ing mate­ri­als on core busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion top­ics at UOL and JHS will be pre­pared and fur­ther devel­oped as OER. Since busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion is one of the most pop­u­lar courses of study in Ger­many, the cre­ation and dis­sem­i­na­tion of high-qual­ity mod­u­lar OER for this field of knowl­edge promises inten­sive use by teach­ers and learn­ers and dis­sem­i­na­tion at numer­ous uni­ver­si­ties through­out Ger­many. The devel­op­ment process will draw on exist­ing expe­ri­ence and the stan­dards devel­oped in a pre­vi­ous project.

The project materials:

• OER for Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Astrid Nieße

The aim of the project is to develop, revise, and dig­i­tize open edu­ca­tional resources (OER) for an intro­duc­tion to energy infor­mat­ics. The aim of the intro­duc­tion to energy infor­mat­ics is to impart basic knowl­edge about energy sys­tems, elec­tri­cal energy sys­tems, rel­e­vant play­ers in the energy indus­try, and cur­rent research top­ics in energy infor­mat­ics, such as the appli­ca­tion of meth­ods in the field of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence.

The project materials:

• Intro­duc­tion to Energy Infor­mat­ics (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Jutta Papen­brock

Cre­ation of a self-con­tained dig­i­tal teaching/learning unit con­sist­ing of sev­eral for­mats for the mod­ule “Gen­eral Botany” in the form of OER, which can be trans­ferred to other (teach­ing) con­texts and reused by other teach­ers. The mate­ri­als should be usable in com­pul­sory botany mod­ules of the respec­tive cur­ric­ula at var­i­ous uni­ver­si­ties (in Lower Sax­ony). In addi­tion to the core con­tent of courses on “Gen­eral Botany” taught at all uni­ver­si­ties, an exten­sion towards “Applied Botany” should be offered.

The project materials:

• Fun­da­men­tals of Gen­eral Botany – Shoots, Leaves, and Roots (öffnet in neuem Tab)< & Ferns (Monilo­phytes) (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Mandl & Dr. Ste­fan Dreisieb­ner

The aim of the project is to revise and develop new teach­ing mate­ri­als on infor­ma­tion ethics and make them avail­able as OER in Eng­lish. Top­ics cov­ered include the­o­ret­i­cal foun­da­tions of ethics and eth­i­cal issues sur­round­ing pri­vacy, copy­right, open access, infor­ma­tion lit­er­acy, the dig­i­tal divide, restric­tions on access to infor­ma­tion, web cen­sor­ship, algo­rithms, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, robot­ics, and social changes in the con­text of dig­i­tal­iza­tion.

The project materials:

• Infor­ma­tion Ethics (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Dr. Katja Politt

The aim of the project is to cre­ate an ILIAS course as an OER for the sub­ject area of syn­tax in under­grad­u­ate Ger­man stud­ies. The tar­get group is teacher train­ing stu­dents in the highly pop­u­lar bach­e­lor’s degree pro­grams with Ger­man as their first or sec­ond sub­ject. Syn­tagma uses the prin­ci­ple of gam­i­fi­ca­tion to pro­mote stu­dents’ moti­va­tion to learn.

The project materials:

• Syn­tagma – A Gram­mar Adven­ture (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Silke Ruwisch & Dr. Cath­leen Heil

The project aims to develop a wide range of OER mate­ri­als to sup­port teach­ing in the con­text of teacher train­ing in math­e­mat­ics. A topic that has been mar­gin­ally touched upon in teacher train­ing to date, the devel­op­ment of pro­fes­sional knowl­edge on spa­tial think­ing in learn­ers, is to be made acces­si­ble to stu­dents through self-learn­ing activ­i­ties and videos of school­child­ren, enabling them to engage with the topic from mul­ti­ple per­spec­tives and inde­pen­dently.

The project materials:

• Sub­ject-Spe­cific Didac­tic Knowl­edge for Spa­tial Think­ingn (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Dr. Alexan­der Sil­bers­dorff & Dr. Nina-Kristin Meis­ter

The project devel­ops and pro­vides instruc­tional videos and accom­pa­ny­ing reflec­tive mate­ri­als for the intro­duc­tory course “Math­e­mat­ics for Eco­nom­ics” as acces­si­ble OERs. Acces­si­bil­ity is achieved through sub­ti­tles, audio descrip­tions, trans­la­tions into Ger­man Sign Lan­guage (DGS), and tran­scripts. Fur­ther­more, atten­tion is paid to the devel­op­ment and use of an acces­si­ble, read­able, and rec­og­niz­able lay­out when cre­at­ing the instruc­tional videos and mate­ri­als. The col­lab­o­ra­tion takes place in an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team that includes the exper­tise of deaf and blind indi­vid­u­als.

The project materials:

• Acces­si­ble Math­e­mat­ics (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Prof. Han­nah Trit­tin-Ulbrich & Prof. Matthias Wen­zel

The aim of the project is to develop teach­ing and learn­ing mate­ri­als that impart skills in the appli­ca­tion of qual­i­ta­tive research meth­ods in busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion. Knowl­edge of qual­i­ta­tive research meth­ods enables researchers to inves­ti­gate novel orga­ni­za­tional and man­age­ment-based phe­nom­ena, for exam­ple in the areas of dig­i­tal­iza­tion and sus­tain­abil­ity. To this end, two Eng­lish-lan­guage col­lec­tions of mate­ri­als at the bach­e­lor’s and mas­ter’s level are to be pub­lished as OER.

The project materials:

• Foun­da­tions of Qual­i­ta­tive Research Meth­ods (öffnet in neuem Tab)

Contact:

Dr. med. univ. Chan­tal Degen, Fr. Sarah Long, Dr. med. Marie Mikuteit & Prof. San­dra Stef­fens

The aim of the project is to ini­ti­ate cross-loca­tion col­lab­o­ra­tion in uni­ver­sity teach­ing in human med­i­cine by devel­op­ing loca­tion-spe­cific teach­ing con­tent as open edu­ca­tional resources (OER), using the exam­ple of oto­laryn­gol­ogy (ENT). The result­ing blue­prints for the cre­ation, pub­li­ca­tion, fur­ther devel­op­ment, and eval­u­a­tion of OER in human med­i­cine should enable future mul­ti­plier effects.

The project materials:

• Dec­la­ra­tion of Con­sent (öffnet in neuem Tab)