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Since 2012, the OERcamp has been the meeting place for the German-speaking community around Open Educational Resources (OER) and digital, open, contemporary education. At OERcamps, different actors work and learn from and with each other, consciously going beyond the boundaries of educational areas and subjects and looking at the subject area of OER and open education from pedagogical-didactic, legal, organizational, technical and other perspectives.

KNOER and its members are also represented at OERCamp 2024 in various formats:

In the workshop “Artificial Intelligence and Open Educational Resources in University Teaching” PD Dr. Markus Deimann (ORCA.nrw) and Daniel Diekmann (ORCA.nrw) discuss the implications of artificial intelligence for open educational resources. This is about the opportunities and potential of AI for OER as well as the associated fields of action and challenges.

The workshop “Open Educational Practices (OEP) from the perspective of the OER repositories of the federal states” discusses what requirements must be placed on OER repositories for a successful OEP offering. This is about offering practice, options and the expectations of the user base. The workshop is offered by the OER Repository Baden-Württemberg (ZOERR) and the Virtual Campus Rhineland-Palatinate (VCRP). Verena Russlies (ZOERR), Konrad Faber (VCRP), Noreen Krause (twillo) and Paulina Rinne (HessenHub) are involved.

Another workshop – moderated by Silvia Czerwinski (twillo, TIB) and Yulia Loose (twillo, ELAN e.v.) – will be about the most important steps to an OER policy and what happens afterwards. The OER policy kit is used to discuss how stumbling blocks in the creation process can be overcome and what measures can be taken after publication.

Noreen Krause (twillo) is also involved in the newbie session “Introduction to the Barcamp method”.

Event website: https://www.oercamp.de/24/
Program: https://www.oercamp.de/24/programm/
Registration: https://www.oercamp.de/24/anmelde/

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Nov. 7th, 2023: Network meeting on OER policies

Network meeting on OER policies on November 7th, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (online)

In dialogue with practitioners!

More and more universities in Germany are committed to OER and want to use guidelines to send a signal to teachers that they approve of creating and sharing OER. The path to such a policy, i.e. an OER policy, can vary greatly depending on the university. Determining factors here can be the size of the university and accordingly the circle of participants or the approach to policy development – top-down or bottom-up, more or less participatory, etc.

Despite different starting points, there are steps in the development of an OER policy that all universities go through. We tried to visualize these steps in an OER Policy Kit. In addition to a map with the individual steps, materials such as presentation slides or text modules for mailings are also provided. The kit is intended to provide guidance on questions such as: Where should I start? Who should I contact and when?

At the fourth network meeting we would like to present and discuss the OER Policy Kit. We developed the policy kit together with Frank Homp (ORCA.nrw) and Astrid Dreyer (HAWK Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen), who explain their path to an OER policy as an example.

The policy kit provides input on the following questions:

  • Which steps are essential in the process and which are nice to have?
  • Which actors should be involved and when?
  • Which materials and tools can be useful for the coordination process?

After the presentation, you will have the opportunity to address your questions directly and discuss them together. We look forward to your impression and feedback.

Moderation: Yulia Loose (lawyer, ELAN e.V.) and Silvia Czerwinski (scientific MA, Technical Information Library)

Please Register for the online event at: support.twillo@tib.eu

Further information and the link to the workshop room can be found on the twillo event website.

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09.03.2023: KNOER event at the OE-Week

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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