Dig­i­tal teaching/learning set­tings are becom­ing increas­ingly impor­tant at uni­ver­si­ties. As a result, lec­tur­ers are con­fronted with the need to con­vert their face-to-face courses to online for­mats or sup­ple­ment them with dig­i­tal ele­ments. Open Edu­ca­tional Resources (OER) offer great added value here: these teaching/learning mate­ri­als can be reused and fur­ther devel­oped or adapted to spe­cific teaching/learning con­texts and indi­vid­ual learner needs. The devel­op­ment and pro­vi­sion of OER also offers the oppor­tu­nity to make one’s own teach­ing or name vis­i­ble in the aca­d­e­mic com­mu­nity (sim­i­lar to open access pub­li­ca­tions). This sus­tain­ably improves access to edu­ca­tion, which con­tributes to an open teaching/learning cul­ture. Every­one ben­e­fits from OER: teach­ers and stu­dents alike. Despite these oppor­tu­ni­ties, the cre­ation, shar­ing and use of OER at uni­ver­sity level is still restrained and barely estab­lished. There are many rea­sons for this, e.g. indi­vid­ual uncer­tain­ties regard­ing legal, tech­ni­cal or didac­tic aspects. In this course, you will learn about the char­ac­ter­is­tics of open edu­ca­tional mate­ri­als and reflect on their added value and chal­lenges. Par­tic­u­lar atten­tion will be paid to copy­right and open licens­ing (accord­ing to Cre­ative Com­mons). In inter­ac­tive exer­cises, you will learn how you can inte­grate openly licensed edu­ca­tional mate­ri­als into your teach­ing and what you need to bear in mind when cre­at­ing your own OER. You will also learn about the Lower Sax­ony OER por­tal www.twillo.de — a sus­tain­able infra­struc­ture for shar­ing open edu­ca­tional mate­ri­als. Main top­ics:

• Key fea­tures of Open Edu­ca­tional Resources (OER)
• Basics of copy­right and open licens­ing
• Inte­gra­tion of openly licensed edu­ca­tional mate­ri­als into own works
• Pub­li­ca­tion of own works as OER
• Func­tions of the OER por­tal twillo

The orga­ni­za­tion and han­dling of the online event is car­ried out by Leib­niz Uni­ver­sität Han­nover.

This is a free offer for all LUH employ­ees.