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Sustainability Report 2023

Campus Bielefeld University
Bielefeld University

Open Educational Resources (OER)

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As in its digitalisation strategy, Bielefeld University is also committed in its sustainability mission statement to creating extensive teaching and learning materials for students and teaching staff, instructors, lectures in cooperation with other universities. Open Educational Resources (OER) make educational materials publicly available. Open licensing enables free approval and the redistribution, editing and use of teaching/learning materials for staff, people outside the university. The advantages include the fact that these teaching/learning materials can be integrated into your own curriculum planning, the lifecycle of these resources is extended and they can therefore be used more sustainably. The ORCA.nrw platform has been published in NRW as a platform for the exchange of such materials.

As not only didactic but also legal aspects need to be considered when using and publishing OER, Bielefeld University offers a range of counselling services. The ORCA.nrw Coordination in the Centre for Teaching and Learning (ZLL) - Department of University Didactics and Teaching Development offers a checklist, special workshops and individual consultations for the use of OER. Copyright questions can be answered by the legal department of the Department of Teaching and Learning. At Bielefeld University, OER projects have already been sponsored by the Quality Fund for Teaching and the "Digi Fellowships " funding line of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition, projects are and have been sponsored by the OERcontent.nrw funding line, in which Bielefeld University is involved, including the following projects by teaching staff, instructors, lectures:

With Bielefeld University as consortium leader

  • "KoLidi: Collaborative literary history digital and interactive" (start 2020)

 

With Bielefeld University as consortium partner

  • AUTHENTIC ENGLISHES.NRW - Production of digital teaching/learning programmes for NRW on linguistic varieties of English (1st OERcontent.nrw funding line)
  • DigiMal.nrw - (digital maths teacher training) (1st OERcontent.nrw funding line)
  • INKLUD.NRW - Development of an online teaching/learning environment for use in heterogeneity-oriented teacher training programmes (2nd OERcontent.nrw funding line)
  • EkommMed - E-learning resources for competence-orientated communication training in the healthcare sector in North Rhine-Westphalia Digitales GWP-Curriculum.nrw (2nd OERcontent.nrw funding line)
  • BInQ-Bio - Educational equity and inclusion as a cross-sectional task in biology teacher training programmes (3rd OERcontent.nrw funding line)

 

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