Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely accessible. Since they allow an adaptation to specific teaching and learning contexts, OER can simplify the conception and realization of educational offers. The creation and publication of OER offers the opportunity to make one’s own work visible in the academic and scientific community. Furthermore to use and produce offers valuable chances to further develop teaching and learning together with international partner universities to actively contribute towards an open teaching and learning culture.
Despite these opportunities, OER are not yet fully established in the higher education sector. Reasons for this include individual uncertainties regarding legal, technical, or didactic issues. In this workshop, you will learn about the characteristics of open educational materials and reflect on opportunities and challenges that go along with their use. A special emphasis lies on copyright and open licensing. In interactive exercises and with examples from the life sciences, you will learn how to integrate OER into your work and what to consider when creating your own OER. In addition, you will get to know the key functions and features of the Lower Saxony OER-portal www.twillo.de as well as other tools & ressources.

Main Topics

• Key characteristics of Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Basics of copyright law and open licensing
• Integrating openly licensed educational materials into your own works
• Publishing your own works as OER
• Functions and features of the OER portal twillo
  

Target Group

Teaching staff, university employees and students who are interested in OER

Speakers

• Noreen Krause (TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology | University Library)
• Britta Beutnagel (TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology | University Library)

Date

Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 4:00 – 6:00 pm (CET).
The workshop will be held online

Registration

The event is organized and administered by the liveSciences³ project of the University of Göttingen (more info here).