Course Content

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation. (UNESCO)

Upon successful completion of this online course, you will be familiar with the use of material with an open license, the search for OER, the creation, revision und remix of OER und as well as how to share open licensed materials.

Course Goals

At the end of the course, you can name and use different licenses and their requirements and differences. You can find openly licensed educational resources (OER), you can create, revise and remix OER and you can publish OER and make them available to others.

Previous Knowledge

none

Course Procedure

Certificate

For actively participating in the course you will receive an automatic confirmation of participation (certificate) which includes your username, the course title, course duration as well as the hours required to complete the course. We want to point out that this certificate merely confirms that the user answered at least 75% of the self-assessment questions correctly.

Licence

This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0

Course image: Jonathasmello, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Further information

The online course is part of the OER training offer, which is being developed as part of the Open Education Austria Advanced (OEAA) project.