The document discusses Open Educational Resources (OER) in Germany. It defines OER as freely accessible educational materials that are openly licensed. It outlines several major OER initiatives in Germany, including Serlo, Tutory, and HOOU. It notes that OER can help reduce educational costs, improve quality of resources, and reduce barriers to learning.
4. About Me
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Management and
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5. ✱ What does OER stand for?
✱ What are people doing with OER in GER?
✱ Why should I care about OER?
6. What does OER stand
for?
✱ Freely accessible
✱ Openly licensed
✱ Material for teaching and learning
Wikipedia, Open Educational Resources, CC BY-SA 3.0
7. What does OER stand
for?
✱ CC-BY (Attribution)
✱ CC-SA (ShareAlike)
✱ CC-NC (NonCommercial)
✱ CC-ND (NoDerivates)
Creative Commons, Licences explained, CC BY 3.0 NZ
13. Henry Pohl: His Flag, (Link,) CC BY 4.0
Link to author: link to work, (printed link,) link
to licence text
Henry Pohl: His Flag, CC BY 4.0
14. What does OER stand
for?
✱ Little OER (e.g. produced by anyone)
✱ Big OER (e.g. institutional projects)
Martin Weller, Big and little OER, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
15. What are people doing
with OER in GER?
✱ 139 OER initiatives in Germany (2016)
✱ 64 initiatives described as ‘Service’
Jan Neumann and Jöran Muuß-Merholz, OER Atlas 2016, CC BY 4.0
16. What are people doing
with OER in GER?
1. Baden-Würtemberg (~27 initiatives)
2. Bavaria (~26 initiatives)
3. Berlin (~19 initiatives)
4. North Rhine-Westphalia (~18 initiatives)
5. Hamburg (~8 initiatives)
Jan Neumann and Jöran Muuß-Merholz, OER Atlas 2016, CC BY 4.0
17. 55%
of services focusing on schools sector
Jan Neumann and Jöran Muuß-Merholz, OER Atlas 2016, CC BY 4.0
18. What are people doing
with OER in GER?
1. Sciences, Math, and Statistics (~42 Services)
2. Arts and Humanities (37 Services)
3. Information and Communication (~35
Services)
Jan Neumann and Jöran Muuß-Merholz, OER Atlas 2016, CC BY 4.0
19. What are people doing
with OER in GER?
1. Wikis (used by 24 services)
2. Other (used by ~16 services)
3. Repositories (used by ~13 services)
4. Link lists and reference sites (used by ~5
services)
Jan Neumann and Jöran Muuß-Merholz, OER Atlas 2016, CC BY 4.0
20. What are people doing
with OER in GER?
1. CC BY SA (45 services)
2. CC BY (~13 services)
3. CC BY-NC-SA (~11 services)
Jan Neumann and Jöran Muuß-Merholz, OER Atlas 2016, CC BY 4.0
21. What are people doing
with OER in GER?
✱ Serlo
✱ Tutory
✱ HOOU
22. About Serlo
✱ Free textbook series for
students
✱ Work in collaboration on
own platform and in Wiki
✱ 2.5M page views per year
Serlo, Logo Serlo color changed by Isger Janson, CC BY-SA 4.0
23. Über 6 Jahre „Mathe für Nicht-Freaks“ in weniger als 2 Minuten
24. About Tutory
✱ Online editor for
worksheets using OER
✱ Improve teachers’
workflow
✱ 1.1k active users
tutory.de
28. Why should I care about
OER?
✱ Fostering new forms of learning for the 21st century
✱ Fostering teachers’ professional development
✱ Containing educational costs
✱ Improving the quality of educational resources
✱ Widening the distribution of high-quality
educational resources
✱ Reducing barriers to learning opportunities
OECD, Open Educational Resources - A Catalyst for Innovation, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
30. About Hbor
✱ Tutor booking system
✱ Access to curated OER for
tutors and students
✱ OER used to facilitate
tutoring
✱ Tutors can manage
students schedule,
performance and progress
hbor.co
31. Further questions
✱ What are high quality OER?
✱ How can we ensure the quality of OER?
✱ How can we get people to value OER?
✱ How can we get people to use OER?
✱ How can we get people to develop OER?