twillo is a guest at the Hochscule Merse­burg on Novem­ber 20th, 2025 to con­duct an online work­shop on the basics and prac­ti­cal use of open edu­ca­tional resources in teach­ing and to intro­duce the OER-por­tal twillo. This work­shop is part of Hochschule Merse­burg’s event series “Lehre und Ler­nen im Blick” from Novem­ber 17th to the 28th, 2025. This event series is to give impulses to qual­ity in study and teach­ing. twillo gladly sup­ports this under­tak­ing. More and more aca­d­e­mic insti­tu­tions aim to fos­ter open­ness and seek to set a pos­i­tive exam­ple for their edu­ca­tors and other stafthat they pro­mote and endorese the cre­ation and shar­ing of Open Edu­ca­tional Resoures (OER) actively through provide­ing clear guide­lines. But what con­tent should such an OER-pol­icy have? What legal aspects are cru­cial to con­sider? And which stake­hold­ers should be involved, so that a pol­i­cy’s imple­men­ta­tion is widely sup­ported and not con­demned to reamin a mere dec­la­ra­tion of intent? Uti­liz­ing exist­ing tem­plates pro­vided by twillo — such as our pol­icy draft and our pol­icy kit — we’ll intro­duce the cru­cial steps of devel­op­ing an OER-pol­icy for your insti­tu­tion. twillo gladly sup­ports this under­tak­ing with two sub­se­quent work­shops.

Open Edu­ca­tional Resources (OER) are study and teach­ing mate­ri­als, that can be col­lab­o­ra­tively cre­ated with other edu­ca­tors, shared and mod­i­fied, for free and legally secure. In this work­shop, we want to develop the most impor­tant basics: the usage of open licenses, the incor­po­ra­tion of AI-gen­er­ated con­tent, and tips and tricks for the prac­ti­cal imple­men­ta­tion in your teach­ing con­text. Fur­ther­more, we will intro­duce the OER-Por­tal twillo, which allows search­ing for, find­ing, down­load­ing, and pub­lish­ing of OER. We encour­age par­tic­i­pants of this work­shop to bring their own teach­ing mate­ri­als to hands-on try out, how to pub­lish these mate­ri­als as OER on twillo.