Open Educational Resources: Information for teaching staff
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching materials that are published free of charge under an open licence and are freely accessible due to the selected license. Here you can find further information for your teaching / projects.
How to find OER for teaching
DuEPublico
OER created at the UDE can be found on DuEPublico. Filter by subject area, keywords, language or other criteria.
ORCA.nrw
In the ORCA.nrw portal you can find open educational materials for teaching and share materials with others. Students can use open educational materials and review, deepen or expand their knowledge.
Moodle
Moodle course rooms can be deposited as OER course units for subsequent use in the "Open UDE" section. Further information can be found in the Moodle Knowledgebase.
How to create your own OER - in just 3 steps
Choose own material
Have you already created educational materials that are to be made available for re-use as OER? We will be happy to support you in making them available and provide information on the licences you can choose for them as well as on publishing them in OER repositories.
Choose a licence
The UDE recommends using the following internationally recognised, standardised licences from the non-profit organisation Creative Commons for the publication of OER: CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0.
These licences are particularly suitable for OER, as they provide few conditions for subsequent use and at the same time ensure that authorship remains recognised.
Do you have any questions about the granting and use of licences?
Upload material
Moodle-Kursraum bereitstellen
Publish your teaching material in DuEPublico or in the ORCA.nrw portal - make sure you use suitable keywords so that third parties can find your OER material quickly.
You can also make a Moodle course room available as OER in the "Open UDE" section of the UDE Moodle.
Handout on the creation of OER
Our handout summarises all the important information on creating OER for you.
New publication on OER
Petschenka, Anke; Bulizek, Björn; Liebscher, Julia; Schaffeld, Laura; Wefelnberg, Marianne: Open Educational Resources als strategisches Thema für Studium und Lehre an der Universität Duisburg-Essen
In: fnma Magazin / Verein Forum Neue Medien in der Lehre Austria <fnma> (Hrsg.). (2022), Heft 2, S. 44 - 46
Courses and one-to-one consultations
We offer online training and one-to-one consultations. The online training courses provide information on Open Educational Resources. During the one-to-one sessions, we will answer your questions and help you with the provision of OER or with questions regarding the application process.
You can also use our Moodle course room for self-study.
Further information
Sources in German-speaking countries
- OER strategy of the BMBF: „OER-Strategie. Freie Bildungsmaterialien für die Entwicklung digitaler Bildung“ (published in July 2022).
- Informationsstelle Open Educational Resources (OERinfo) at the University of Frankfurt a.M.: At OERinfo you will find a list of central contact points for OER.
- The OERhörnchen educational material search can be used to find specific teaching/learning materials from educational projects that can be legally used and modified under a free licence:: OERhörnchen
- University network for digital teaching and learning in teacher training: digiLL, Contact person at the UDE: Björn Bulizek (Zentrum für Lehrkräftebildung)
- Top 200 list is a co-operation project of was-ist-oer.de und OERcamps. It lists 200 particularly recommendable sources on OER and is constantly being updated. Die 200 besten OER-Quellen.
European and international sources
Aurora Alliance Universities Network Projekt
Website: https://aurora-universities.eu/
Participation of the Duisburg-Essen UL: https://www.uni-due.de/ub/aurora
University of Duisburg-Essen
- OER-Repository at UDE: https://duepublico2.uni-due.de/content/oer/search.xed (68 resources: audio-files, documents, excel-sheets)
- OER Moodle courses at UDE: https://moodle.uni-due.de/course/index.php?categoryid=1684 (13 moodle courses)
- University network for digital teaching and learning in teacher training (digiLL): https://digill.de/ (7 courses)
University of Innsbruck (Austria)
- OER Portal: https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/oer/
- Repo: https://oer-repo.uibk.ac.at/edu-sharing
University Federico II of Naples (Italy)
- Federica Web Learning, University of Naples Federico II: https://www.federica.eu/en/ (350 MOOCs)
- EMMA – European Multiple MOOC Aggregator: https://platform.europeanmoocs.eu/ (219 MOOCs)
University of Iceland (Iceland)
Currently, no OER repository is available for the University of Iceland. This may change in the near future. Various resources developed at the University of Iceland are Creative Commons License.
Examples of resources (total: 65):
- Course material for Volcano and magma movements: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV28s76zBv6jpVvrYyQMWHg (42 videos)
- https://icelandiconline.com/ (4 courses)
- https://edbook.hi.is/ (13 courses)
- https://www.edx.org/school/uicelandx (6 courses - partly CC)
Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
- SREd: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8f8Ck-jLV8vmWN33H_vklQ?app=desktop&cbrd=1 (280 videos)
- CRAI: https://urv.libguides.com/Factoria (29 guides related to audiovisual production, multimedia, use of specific software, video conferencing, accessibility)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- English Pronunciation in a global world, provided on Futurelearn: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/english-pronunciation
- Video portal: https://av-media.vu.nl/mediasite/Showcase/video-vrije-universiteit
- iTunes U VU: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/artist/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/1280845553?mt=2
- Environmental Toxicology – An Open Online Textbook: https://maken.wikiwijs.nl/147644/Environmental_Toxicology__an_open_online_textbook
- Master of Business Administration, specialization in Transport and Supply Chain Management: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMbNlTpv_I8
- 3D Archeology in Rome by Maurice de Kleijn (Spinlab VU): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REgbnO4MdvQ
- School of Dentistry ACTA: https://www.acta.nl/en/studying-at-acta/simodont/index.aspx
- Lectures of Vrije Universiteit Professors for the Universiteit van Nederland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BrOlNUMIrw&amp;index=1&amp;t=5s&amp;list=PLtzhxK1RnkrD9hsyw7PDeS-TzUBXc2Uz4
- Information Literacy courses, University Library VU: http://libguides.vu.nl
- Laymen talks of Promovendi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEDiuW5XQdo&amp;list=PLtzhxK1RnkrCqj3r6RtJt9rF_56mBy7x&amp;index=3
- Bachelor medical studies: http://mlivumc.com/archive/
- Materials on Edusources: https://edusources.nl/materialen/zoeken?search_text=%22vrije%20universiteit%22&filters=%7B%7D&page_size=10&page=1
- Open Textbook Crimonology: https://maken.wikiwijs.nl/168767/00__Street_Law_Open_Interactief_Boek#!page-5995092
- Open medical Textbooks: https://zoeken.wikiwijs.nl/search/ilse+van+straaten