Publishing digital educational materials: The twillo collection profile at a glance

twillo is the plat­form for openly licensed teach­ing mate­ri­als for uni­ver­sity teach­ing. The col­lec­tion pro­file shows which con­tent is wel­come and how it con­tributes to qual­ity assur­ance.

On twillo you can pub­lish dig­i­tal edu­ca­tional mate­ri­als from all uni­ver­sity sub­ject groups and fields of study, includ­ing inter­dis­ci­pli­nary mate­ri­als. The pre­req­ui­site is that the mate­ri­als are avail­able under a Cre­ative Com­mons, GNU, MIT or Apache license.

In the fol­low­ing, we describe the twillo col­lec­tion pro­file in more detail in order to pro­mote trans­parency:

Mate­ri­als that are used in uni­ver­sity teach­ing are wel­come, from indi­vid­ual mate­ri­als to com­plex, didac­ti­cally pre­pared struc­tures, e.g.

• self-con­tained teach­ing and learn­ing objects, e.g. work­sheets, pre­sen­ta­tions, lec­ture record­ings, explana­tory videos, scripts, sam­ple exams or quizzes incl. Solu­tions
• Lessons or entire courses, such as MOOCs, web-based train­ing, learn­ing games, exer­cises, self-study mate­ri­als
• Tools or tools, such as Git repos­i­to­ries, code for pro­grams, soft­ware appli­ca­tions, sim­u­la­tions, apps

Mate­ri­als with­out open licens­ing and mate­ri­als that are not suit­able for use in uni­ver­sity teach­ing and learn­ing set­tings are not included, e.g.

• Adver­tis­ing or mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als,
• Patents, stan­dards,
• Con­fer­ence reports, research reports, dis­ser­ta­tions
• indi­vid­ual images that have no didac­tic fram­ing or accom­pa­ny­ing mate­ri­als for teaching/learning set­tings

If you have any ques­tions or feed­back please con­tact us.

The col­lec­tion pro­file of twillo is to be fur­ther devel­oped over time and refined in line with prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence.