Open Edu­ca­tional Resources (OER) are teach­ing and learn­ing mate­ri­als that are avail­able under an open license and can there­fore be used, mod­i­fied and redis­trib­uted free of charge. In the con­text of higher edu­ca­tion and adult edu­ca­tion, OER open up the pos­si­bil­ity of adapt­ing edu­ca­tional offer­ings flex­i­bly and in line with the needs of a het­ero­ge­neous learn­ing group. The open­ness and poten­tial for col­lab­o­ra­tive fur­ther devel­op­ment of OER also pro­mote a par­tic­i­pa­tory learn­ing cul­ture in which learn­ers not only pas­sively absorb con­tent, but also act as active co-cre­ators of their own learn­ing process.

The work­shop will begin by pro­vid­ing key legal and prac­ti­cal prin­ci­ples for the use and cre­ation of open edu­ca­tional resources. The focus will be on the prac­tice-ori­ented devel­op­ment of open teach­ing and learn­ing sce­nar­ios based on real chal­lenges from the field of higher edu­ca­tion and adult edu­ca­tion. The poten­tials and chal­lenges of using OER are crit­i­cally reflected upon in a joint dis­course and pos­si­bil­i­ties for the mean­ing­ful inte­gra­tion of open mate­ri­als in the plan­ning, imple­men­ta­tion and fol­low-up phases of edu­ca­tional pro­grams are devel­oped. In addi­tion, the func­tions and pos­si­ble appli­ca­tions of the www.twillo.de por­tal will be pre­sented.