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KNOER at the OER- & IT-Summercamp 2023 in Weimar

Written by Tim Wiegers06 September 2023

From August 21 to 23, 2023, the OER & IT Summer Camp took place in the beautiful city of Weimar. This camp was hosted by the edu-sharing network.

Our representatives, Noreen Krause from twillo, Tim Wiegers from the Virtual Campus Rhineland-Palatinate (VCRP) and Alexander Clauss from the e-learning working group of the LRK Saxony, were there to participate in the discourse in the working groups and lightning talks and to contribute to the exchange of knowledge.

A central aspect of the camp were the lightning talks, where experts from different fields presented their insights and findings on OER and IT topics. Topics ranged from Open Data to Knowledge Graphs and ontologies to educational infrastructures without data silos. These talks provided valuable input.

In addition to the exciting lightning talks, workshops were also offered where participants could actively work on OER-relevant topics. Here is an overview of the workshops:

  • Workshop A: Editorial networks and OERde statistics.
  • Workshop B: Adaptive theme pages against shortage of specialists
  • Workshop C: Magic curricula
  • Workshop D: Good metadata and OER publishing using the example of zum.de
  • Workshop E: Capabilities of educational organizations/OER actors
  • Workshop F: How to bring media to the users – integration in country infrastructures

These workshops offered participants the opportunity to flesh out their ideas and develop solutions to current challenges in the field of OER and IT.

In addition to the workshops and lightning talks, the summer camp placed a strong emphasis on networking and the exchange of ideas. The participants were able to establish contacts, share experiences and support each other in order to strengthen and advance the OER community.

For the evening program, the summer camp had a special surprise in store – the OER band played, among other things, a new OER song written by Anne Zobel. The as always very good atmosphere of the camp.

The OER & IT Summer Camp 2023 in Weimar was a complete success and showed once again how collaboration and cooperation can flourish in the OER community.

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23.-27. 10. 2023: Open Science Week

Written by Tim Wiegers05 July 2023

Open Science Week at the Ruhr University Bochum

Sharing scientific findings, research steps and results or educational materials – open science includes many measures and practices to make knowledge and data accessible to everyone.

We open our doors and invite you to our virtual Open Science Week from October 23rd to 27th, 2023: Find out more about Open Access, Open Data and Open Educational Resources and learn in our workshops how to publish your publication as Open Access and share your research data or teaching materials with the community.

You can also take the opportunity to discuss the current developments and challenges in the Open Science community with experts and network with other people interested in Open Science.

The state portal ORCA.nrw is taking part in the Open Science Week:
Monday, October 23, 2023 at 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.: An introduction to the world of Open Educational Resources – using freely accessible teaching/learning materials

Further information on the program and registration can be found on the event-homepage of the Ruhr University Bochum

Contact: arbeitsgruppe-openscience@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Study on requirements for an OER-promoting IT infrastructure

Written by Tim Wiegers09 May 2023

In the higher education context, open educational infrastructures are of great importance as they enable free access to teaching and learning materials. Although a large number of OER portals and tools have now been established, there are still obstacles to the widespread dissemination of open materials. A key challenge is to better connect existing infrastructures and establish a universally accepted standard vocabulary for teaching and learning materials. KNOER partner organisations, such as the North Rhine-Westphalian OER portal ORCA.nrw and the Virtual Campus Rhineland-Palatinate (VCRP), together with the HIS Institute for Higher Education Development and the Innovation in Higher Education Foundation, conducted a study to investigate the state of development of open educational infrastructures for higher education institutions. The study by Dr. Klaus Wannemacher included a literature review, an expert workshop and expert interviews to identify requirements for an open education infrastructure from a technical, didactic and organisational perspective.

Link to the study (In German)

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27.-29.09.2023: Campus Innovation

Written by Tim Wiegers08 May 2023

Campus Innovation is an annual conference and trade fair for digital higher education hosted in Hamburg. The event provides a platform for the exchange of knowledge, experiences and ideas between higher education staff, teachers and other experts in the field of digital education.

At Campus Innovation, current developments, trends and challenges in the field of digital higher education will be discussed. Topics include e-learning, online teaching, learning platforms, digital media in education, OER and much more. Workshops, lectures and discussions will be offered to promote exchange and networking among participants.

Campus Innovation will take place again this year in presence in Hamburg. Please make a note of 27-29 September now!

Link to the event website

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13.-15.09.2023: TURN-Conference

Written by Tim Wiegers07 May 2023

The TURN Conference 2023 at the TH Köln aims to promote knowledge transfer as a product laboratory. Participants have the opportunity to develop their ideas, concepts and studies in fixed time slots, supported by experienced writing advisors and other experts. It is irrelevant whether the contributions are without systematic preliminary work (ideas), contributions with systematic preliminary work (drafts) or contributions ready for publication (publish). The main focus is on disseminating the results for easy adaptation by colleagues. To facilitate this transfer, all contributions will be made available under an open licence as OER.

Cologne, 13-15 September 2023

Link to further information

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20. & 21.06.2023: twillo Conference Open Up

Written by Tim Wiegers09 April 2023

9Open Up – Strategies for the digitisation of higher education teaching in Lower Saxony.

The first funding phase of twillo ends in July 2023, but a second is planned. We would like to celebrate the transition loudly in the form of a two-day conference on site at Leibnizhaus Hannover.

With the conference, twillo wants to create an understanding of the challenges of digitisation, as well as advance the discourse on framework conditions and incentives for opening up digital teaching materials. Furthermore, the conference offers many opportunities for networking and exchange.

Date

On 20 and 21 June 2023

On site at Leibnizhaus Hannover and live online

Registration and information

Please register for participation at: https://events.tib.eu/twillo2023/registrierung

All further information on the Open Up conference and the programme can be found on the conference website.

Contact

If you have any questions about the event, please write to us at: Event.Twillo@tib.eu

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15.05.2023, 14:00-15:30: 20 years of e-teaching.org

Written by Tim Wiegers05 April 2023

Cross-national cooperation for digital higher education teaching

In the course of its 20th anniversary, e-teaching.org is organising an online event focusing on transnational cooperation in the field of digital higher education teaching. The network of state institutions for digital higher education teaching (NeL) and the cooperation network OER-promoting infrastructures and services (KNOER) will be presented.
Impulses will highlight the emergence of the state networks and current topics. A panel discussion will show how the cooperation of the state institutions with nationwide actors can be intensified.

The event will take place on 15.05.2023 from 14:00 to 15:30. Registration is possible and accessibility is guaranteed.

Link to further event information

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09.03.2023: KNOER event at the OE-Week

Written by Tim Wiegers07 March 2023

On 09 March from 3-4 pm there was an online session in English on the topic

OER in Higher Education in Germany – Current Developments and Good Practices of Cooperation.

The OER cooperation network “KNOER” illustrated the status quo of open educational materials in the German higher education sector. A short presentation illustrates current developments in the context of OER in the German higher education context (e.g. infrastructures, initiatives, actors) at the national level as well as at the level of individual federal states.

A special focus was on the OER cooperation network “KNOER”. In this network, several German federal states work together on the topic of OER in higher education: They coordinate their OER-promoting digital learning infrastructures and services, use synergy effects and advance the topic of OER in the German higher education context. Within the framework of KNOER, central OER-relevant topics such as OER quality, OER policies or OER infrastructures are dealt with in topic-based working groups across the federal states.

After the presentation, all participants were invited to ask questions, share experiences and contribute to the discussion.

Further information at: https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/ and https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/events/2023/open-educational-resources-in-german-higher-education-current-developments-and-good-practices-of-cooperation/

 

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KNOER was at the OER Camp 2022

Written by Tim Wiegers31 October 2022

We were there!

On the first day of the OER Camp 2022 in Hamburg, the cooperation network KNOER, in cooperation with HIS-HE, organised a workshop on the topic of “Requirements for an IT infrastructure conducive to OER”. We collected and discussed ideas, experiences and suggestions with participants from the various educational sectors.

 

On the second day of the event, the focus was on the exchange of ideas and collaborative work on very different topics in the context of OER in numerous barcamp sessions.

Finally, on the third day of the event, thematic workshops took place on the individual fields of action of the OER strategy of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The BMBF sees the OER strategy as a “learning strategy”. In the thematic workshops, the OER community had the opportunity to give impulses for the individual fields of action.

 

[from left to right: Peter Rempis, Martin Lentz, Paulina Rinne, Konrad Faber, Tim Wiegers, Daniel Diekmann]

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