{"id":6670,"date":"2025-04-24T09:22:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/helpcenter\/#what-are-suitable-or-open-file-formats-for-oer"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:47:49","slug":"what-are-suitable-or-open-file-formats-for-oer","status":"publish","type":"helpcenter","link":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/helpcenter\/what-are-suitable-or-open-file-formats-for-oer\/","title":{"rendered":"What are suitable or open file formats for OER?"},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","helpkategorie":[135],"class_list":["post-6670","helpcenter","type-helpcenter","status-publish","hentry","helpkategorie-basics-of-oer"],"acf":{"helpcenter_faq":"Make your educational material available in as <strong>open a file format<\/strong> as possible by choosing easily <strong>editable<\/strong> and <strong>versionable<\/strong> file formats when saving. This makes it easier for other teachers to reuse content. <strong>3 criteria<\/strong> for open file formats are open standard, editable and versionable. Formats that fulfill all three aspects are, for example: .csv, .txt, .tex, .html, .md, .svg. ","helpcenter_activate-content":true,"helpcenter_post":{"helpcenter_post-titel":"What are suitable or open file formats for OER?","helpcenter_post-content":"Make your educational material available in as <strong>open a file format<\/strong> as possible by choosing easily <strong>editable<\/strong> and <strong>versionable<\/strong> file formats when saving. This makes it easier for other teachers to reuse content. \n\n<strong>3 Criteria<\/strong> for open file formats are:\n\n<strong>Open standard:<\/strong> Materials with an open standard are easy to edit, as most files can be opened and adapted using open source software and no proprietary software needs to be purchased.\n\n<strong>Editability:<\/strong> Editable file formats allow direct adaptation and further development of the materials. See below for examples (however, a PDF, for example, can only be edited with difficulty). \n\n<strong>Versionability:<\/strong> Versionable file formats make it possible to document, trace and even easily undo all changes made to the material.\n\nFormats that fulfill all three aspects are, for example: .csv, .txt, .tex, .html, .md, .svg. Common formats that fulfill one point less are, for example:\n<ul>\n \t<li>.docx, .xlsx, .ppsx, .pptx (Office Open XML for Microsoft Office files)<\/li>\n \t<li>.odt, .ods, .odg, .odp (Open Document Format of Open Office files)<\/li>\n<\/ul>"},"helpcenter_videos":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helpcenter\/6670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helpcenter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/helpcenter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"helpkategorie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helpkategorie?post=6670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}