Conteúdo do curso

Open Educational Resources (OER for short) are educational materials that are freely accessible and can be edited, adapted, and shared without violating copyrights. This succeeds because so-called "open licenses" or public domain materials are used for this purpose.

This course introduces the concept of Open Educational Resources for students and teachers at universities. OER are not only an important educational policy issue for international associations such as UNESCO, OER are also part of the call for "Open Science".

The course will also show how and where OER can be found and published. And of course, open licenses such as CC-0, CC BY and CC BY-SA will be explained.

Objetivos do curso

You will know the background and potential of OER, be able to use materials with open licenses in a copyright-compliant manner and know where to find and publish OER. You will know open Creative Commons licenses and be able to apply them.

Conhecimento prévio

General Internet knowledge and interest in using and creating educational resources.

Procedimento do curso

Certificado

For active course participation, you will receive an automatic confirmation of participation from iMooX.at with user name, course details and confirmation of at least 75% correctly answered self-assessment questions. In addition, you will receive Open Badges for all completed units and the entire course.

Licença

This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Information about the accompanying university course

The content of the MOOC is deepened in a course at TU Graz. For regular students at TU Graz, this course can either be credited as an optional subject or as a compulsory subject for students of the degree programme ‘Teaching Computer Science and Digital Education’.

At the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, the course is integrated into the OER Practitioner certification. The course certificate corresponds to part of the 25 hours required by the certification body (https://www.openeducation.at/zertifizierung/). A further requirement for certification is the uploading of three self-created OER, which takes place in the course of the supervised training at BOKU in accordance with the OER policy in force there.

The MOOC is also used at the University for Continuing Education Krems as part of the OER practitioner qualification programme. It is used to teach content and is supplemented by a supervised online course with university-related work assignments. In addition, participants create three OER and receive coaching from experienced OER practitioners.