What is needed to foster the production and the (re)use of Open Educational Resources?

1. Recommendations
for OER Integration
20.10.2016
Michael Kopp
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2. What is needed to foster
the production and the
(re)use of Open
Educational Resources?

3. Open Educational Resources
• are available for free
• are useable for free
(can be changed or remixed)
• are licensed with an open license

4. Creative Commons Licenses
• CC BY: authors must be named
• CC ND: (no derivation)
Content must not be changed
• CC NC: (non-commercial)
• CC SA: (share alike)
Remixed content must be shared
with the same origin license

5. OER in Austrian Higher Education
• Experiences since 2000
49 projects were funded by the
Ministry of Science
• First OER strategy developed by
Graz Technical University in 2010
• First online-course on OER with
more than 1.000 participants (2013)

6. OER in Austrian Higher Education
• MOOC-platform www.imoox.at
since 2014, 12.000 users
• Many flagship-projects at
different HEI
• White paper on OER in cooperation
with the Ministry of Science (2016)

7. White Paper Consortium
Martin Ebner
Christian F. Freisleben-Teutscher
Ortrun Gröblinger
Michael Kopp
Katharina Rieck
Sandra Schön
Peter Seitz
Maria Seissl
Sabine Ofner
Claudia Zimmermann
Charlotte Zwiauer

8. OER-Challenges
in Austrian Higher Education
• Vivid community, but driven by a
few pioneers
• Quality issue (OER usage by others)
• Copyright issue (not willing to share)
• Lack of financing
• No suitable labor contracts
• No national/institutional strategy

9. Potentials of OER
• Free access to free education
• Support of open learning scenarios
• Proof of quality
• Increase of OER-competences
• Contribution to inclusion
• Strengthening the cooperation
between HEIs and corporations

10. Recommendations
for OER-Integration
• Mandatory commitment to OER
• Nationwide information platform
• Nationwide educational programs
• Establishment of OER-badges
• Financial and structural promotion
• Establishment of OER-strategies

11. Michael Kopp
@koanmi
michael.kopp@uni-graz.at
http://akademie.uni-graz.at
www.imoox.at
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