Open
8-10 hours
Course Content
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.
The background to this multilingual MOOC offer
(available in 11 international languages!) is the
joint project "Unite! OER courses" of all nine
universities of the European University Alliance
Unite!.
Previous Knowledge
General Internet
knowledge and interest in using and creating
educational resources.
Course Procedure
The course
comprises 4 weeks or units. Each unit will include
videos and advanced materials and a self-test to
review what has been learned. A discussion forum
provides the opportunity to reflect, discuss or
elaborate on the topic with other learners.
Certificate
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.
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.
Registration is open for all from Unite! universities