Insight into the project “Open Educational Resources for education and science management in the context of digitization”

This blog post gives you an overview of the aims and con­tent of an OER tan­dem project between the Uni­ver­sity of Old­en­burg and Osnabrück Uni­ver­sity of Applied Sci­ences.

As a tan­dem project, the Cen­ter for Life­long Learn­ing (C3L) at the Uni­ver­sity of Old­en­burg is par­tic­i­pat­ing together with Osnabrück Uni­ver­sity of Applied Sci­ences in the project “Open Edu­ca­tional Resources for Edu­ca­tion and Sci­ence Man­age­ment in the Con­text of Dig­i­tal­iza­tion” funded by the Lower Sax­ony Min­istry of Sci­ence and Cul­ture (MWK).

As part of the project dura­tion (12/2020 — 04/2022), numer­ous OER on the topic of “higher edu­ca­tion, edu­ca­tion and sci­ence man­age­ment” will be devel­oped and pub­lished on the twillo por­tal.

The start­ing point for the OER is a selec­tion of exist­ing study mate­ri­als from the part-time Mas­ter’s degree pro­grams “Edu­ca­tion and Sci­ence Man­age­ment” (C3L/University of Old­en­burg) and “Higher Edu­ca­tion and Sci­ence Man­age­ment” (Osnabrück Uni­ver­sity of Applied Sci­ences). These study scripts will be pre­pared as OER, rearranged and expanded to include fur­ther the­mat­i­cally appro­pri­ate OER.

In this way, numer­ous learn­ing units on the top­ics of “strate­gic man­age­ment”, “cost and finan­cial man­age­ment”, “qual­ity man­age­ment” and “approaches to inter­net-based learn­ing / meth­ods and mod­els of dig­i­tal edu­ca­tion” are cre­ated. Each of these learn­ing units has a large num­ber of OER of vary­ing gran­u­lar­ity (didac­tic instruc­tions, guide­lines, (teach­ing) videos, case stud­ies, tasks to mon­i­tor learn­ing suc­cess, open access sources, glos­saries, lit­er­a­ture col­lec­tions, etc.).

The designed learn­ing units offer com­pre­hen­sive and mul­ti­fac­eted com­pi­la­tions on the respec­tive sub­ject areas and can be eas­ily reused by teach­ers and other employ­ees in the edu­ca­tional and sci­en­tific con­text. How­ever, mem­bers of edu­ca­tional and sci­en­tific insti­tu­tions as well as stu­dents and inter­ested par­ties are also invited to use the learn­ing units to acquire knowl­edge inde­pen­dently or to obtain ideas for their own teach­ing con­cepts. The OER are intended for use in both for­mal and infor­mal con­texts.

People involved in the project

University of Oldenburg

Prof. Dr. Heinke Röbken,
Prof. Dr. Olaf Zawacki-Richter,
Sonja Lübben and Nadine Dem­b­ski

Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences

Prof. Dr. Frank Ziegele
and Niklas Rauter­berg

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This arti­cle by Heinke Röbken, Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Sonja Lübben, Nadine Dem­b­ski, Frank Ziegele and Niklas Rauter­berg. is — unless oth­er­wise stated — licensed under CC BY 4.0