Open Educational Resources: OER Projects at the UDE

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Our institution produces a wide range of Open Educational Resources – freely accessible teaching and learning materials developed by teachers for teachers and students. On this page you will find an overview of the OER published at UDE, which is updated on an ongoing basis. You can use the material for your teaching and adapt it to your own needs.

Have you created your own OER and your project is missing from the list? Submit your project via our form – for more visibility and exchange with other teachers!

OER projects at the University of Duisburg-Essen

Faculty of Educational Sciences

Institute of Sport and Movement Sciences

Muscle actions in sport

  • Faculty of Educational Scienes, Institute of Sport and Movement Sciences
  • Contact: Marco Hagen
  • Funding period: 01 December 2024 – 31 May 2025
  • Publication: to follow

Content: The generation of muscular force in sport is dependent on a variety of anatomical, neurophysiological, and biomechanical factors. Teaching/learning videos illustrate the mechanical stresses on the skeletal muscles involved in running, jumping, and throwing and explain training mechanisms for improving strength and speed.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Didactic concepts for the integration of AR in educational scenarios

Content: As part of several parallel master’s seminars in educational sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen in the winter semester 2022/2023, students independently design augmented reality (AR) learning applications in project work against the background of a didactic framework, which are technically implemented by the Center for Information and Media Services (ZIM) at the University of Duisburg-Essen and then tested and evaluated by the students. The experiences gained in this process are reflected on by the students and related to theoretical framework models of teaching and learning with digital media.

In order to make the students’ work available beyond the seminar and to make it usable and valuable for future educational scenarios, the didactic concepts and technical solutions (AR learning applications) developed will be categorized, processed and made available as OER resources for further use.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Faculty of Biology

Phycology

UDE BioSLiDES

Content: High-quality digital light microscope specimens from the fields of botany, zoology, microbiology, and histology are bundled on the UDE’s local OER repository for students and teachers of biology as well as for self-study in the life sciences. The project builds on the preliminary work of the “UDE BioSLiDES” project and is working on an extended documentation of the preparations and their provision as OER.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Faculty of Chemistry

Institute of Chemistry Education

fOER.de. Research transfer through OER

  • Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry Education
  • Contact: Prof. Dr. Mathias Ropohl
  • Project partners:
    • Kiel University
    • Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
    • University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Project website: https://oer.uni-kiel.de/ (in German)

OER created by teachers with their own financial resources

Faculty of Humanities

Institute for German as Second and Foreign Language

Promoting the language skills of multilingual primary school pupils through creative writing

  • Faculty of Humanities, Institute for German Studies
  • Contact: Julia Plainer, Dr. Ina Lammers
  • Project member: Alina Karasch
  • Funding period: 01 May 2025 – 31 October 2025
  • Publication: to follow

Content: The Moodle course contains three 90-minute teaching units that can be implemented in your own teaching. They contain editable, annotated presentations, interactive tasks with suggested solutions, and a bibliography. The target group are students on the elementary school teacher training course, e.g. in the DaZ module, as well as primary school teachers. The following topics are covered:

  • Possible uses of creative writing tasks in multilingual learning groups
  • Language promotion through creative writing
  • Appreciation of multilingualism
  • Presentation of creative writing products
  • Audio and video projects (e.g. radio plays, film adaptations of poems)

Subsidized by the OER funding

Students and (their) family languages

Content: Language is an important topic for multilingual families and those who are in close contact with them – also for prospective teachers, whether they are multilingual themselves or not. Student teachers at the UDE have often grown up in multilingual families themselves, but do not always find this specific topic addressed as part of their training. We are therefore planning to further develop and adapt materials for students that were created as part of the RUEG research group Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: a Comparative Approach (duration May 2021 – April 2024). This is done with a particular focus on the possibility of taking these materials with them into teacher training or school practice and thus acting as multipliers. This includes publishing the materials on a suitable platform (digill.de) or on www.ruegram.de (CC BY-NC license).

The materials themselves include videos, audios, presentation elements, and information texts, which are to be made available in several languages or with subtitles. Thematically, the materials are organized in five modules: Knowledge about languages, Current research findings, Own experiences with multilingualism, Myths, and Citizen Science.

Subsidized by the OER funding

OER for practicing language diagnostic skills: Profile Analysis (OpenÜsK_PA)

Content: Language diagnostic skills are an important component of effective teaching. For OpenÜsK (“OER zur Übung sprachdiagnostischer Kompetenzen” / “OER for practicing language diagnostic skills”), materials on language assessment procedures from teaching were further developed to offer students and practitioners (teachers, support staff etc.) interactive practice courses. In our presentation, we highlight challenges related to the transfer or opening up to OER that were relevant with regard to the appropriate contextualization of introductory content and the quality of automated feedback.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Institute for German Studies

Digital magical escape

  • Faculty of Humanities, Institute for German Studies
  • Contact: PD Dr. Simone Loleit, Dr. Liane Schüller
  • Project members: Veronique Bläske B.A., Caesy Stuck B.A., Lea Evers
  • Funding period: August 2024 – January 2025
  • Publication: to follow

Content: The project focuses on European and non-European references to Grimm’s fairy tales, which are linked by the motif of the ‘magical escape’ and in which patterns of action of being persecuted, fleeing, and transformation play a central role. The (teaching) material developed with students in subject-networking seminars is prepared digitally and made available as OER via Moodle.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Grimmwelten – Sources and adaptations of the “Children’s and Household Tales” by the Grimm Brothers

  • Faculty of Humanities, Institute for German Studies
  • Contact: PD Dr. Simone Loleit, Dr. Liane Schüller
  • Project member: Celina Büser M.Ed., Veronique Bläske
  • Funding period: July 2023 – December 2023
  • Publication: to follow

Content: The project “Grimmwelten – Sources and adaptations of the “Children’s and Household Tales” by the Grimm Brothers (GrimmQA)” is dedicated to the “‘Children’s and Household Tales” by the Grimm Brothers in a multi-perspective combination of approaches from the Germanic sub-disciplines of Medieval Studies, Literary Didactics and Modern Literary Studies. As a teaching project, it combines the concept of research-based learning with the idea of learning through teaching. The objects of investigation are the versions of the Grimm fairy tales, their sources and models, literary and intermedia adaptations of the fairy tales as well as contextual knowledge about the Grimm brothers. The focus is on ways of didactically preparing the entire subject area for school, university teaching, and independent study. To this end, a permanent Moodle course room is currently being developed that can be used by students and teachers alike and provides knowledge and didactically prepared materials on fairy tales, their sources, and adaptations. As part of the OER funding phase, the Moodle course room is to be prepared for publication as an open educational resource.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures

Grammar teaching

  • Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Contact: Dr. Emma García Sanz
  • Funding period: 01 January 2024 – 30 June 2024
  • Publication: to follow

Content: The project develops open exercises on Spanish grammar for self-study and teaching. Students translate existing materials and write lesson plans for use and further development in the teaching context.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Methods wiki for teaching French and Spanish

Content: The subject-specific method wiki contains method sheets and teaching suggestions with working material created by students in project seminars. The material is supplemented with references to further literature. The content is available in digital form and can be used for both seminars and practical phases.

Subsidized by the OER funding

“Scientific writing in Spanish: the writing of a research paper” / „Escritura académica en lengua española: cómo redactar un trabajo de investigación“

Content: A Moodle course room is offered for students of Spanish and Spanish literatures as well as for teachers to support the acquisition of knowledge of academic writing in Spanish as a foreign language. The learning materials already developed have been tested in courses. The existing scripts and interactive learning tasks will be converted into free educational materials.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Institute for Primary Social and Science Education

Machine learning and computational vision for primary social and science education

  • Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry Education
  • Contact: Jan Grey
  • Project member: Furkan Durmaz
  • Funding period: 01 August 2023 – 31 December 2023
  • Publication: to follow

Content: to follow

Subsidized by the OER funding

Everyday-oriented subject introduction to geography for the teaching degree in primary social and science education

  • Faculty of Humanities, Institute for Primary Social and Science Education
  • Contact: Dr. Thomas Jekel
  • Project member: Maja Krift
  • Funding period: to follow
  • Publication: to follow

Content: The OER developed offer access to subject-specific concepts that are oriented towards the everyday world of pupils and students. This increases the ability to connect to subjective prior experience and improves applicability in the teaching profession.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Sexual Education in Primary Social and Science Education

OER created by teachers with their own financial resources

AstrOER – Astronomical education for primary school teachers

Content: Unfortunately, there has been little open educational material for astronomy in elementary school to date, but the AstrOER project aims to change that! As part of the project, OER materials are developed around the research work of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The material is intended to make it easier for students and teachers to get started with the topic of astronomy and will be made available free of charge and for their own further development.

Subsidized by the OER funding

DiGEO Collaborative Project

OER created by teachers with their own financial resources

Handout on computer science education in primary social and science education

  • Faculty of Humanities, Institute for Primary Social and Science Education
  • Contact: Jan Grey
  • Project members:
    Torsten Brinda, Inga Gryl, Stephan Napierala
  • OER published as part of the project: Work in Progress

OER created by teachers with their own financial resources

Faculty of Social Sciences

Institute of Political Science

Digibox: Digital skills for political scientists

OER created by teachers with their own financial resources

Institute of Sociology

Doing Theory

Content: For sociology students, a detailed script with concrete work steps is drawn up to enable them to develop theories independently so that new and previously unexplained social phenomena can be theorized and thus explained. In addition, a detailed seminar plan will be created for teachers of sociology and related disciplines (social sciences, anthropology, cultural studies, etc.) in order to introduce theory building at other institutes and universities.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Institute of Socioeconomics

Network Theory and Input-Output Modeling

  • Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute for Socioeconomics
  • Contact: Jan David Weber
  • Project member: Caspar Löffler-Patterson
  • Funding period: 01 October 2024 – 30 April 2025
  • Publication: to follow

Content: We will explore the theoretical foundations of network theory and engage in practical exercises using R. Topics will include basic network concepts, visualization, and analysis, focusing on social science applications such as social networks, communication patterns, and economic interactions. The course concludes with input-output models.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Who gets which slice of the cake? Controversies over the distribution of income and wealth

Content: A chapter on the topic of “economic inequality” is developed as free educational material (texts, diagrams, H5P applications, videos, geogebra applications) for students of economic policy, pupils, and teachers. The project builds on the preliminary work of the “wirtschaftspolitik.cc” project and is used in the BA LA Social Sciences courses.

Subsidized by the OER funding

Faculty of Medicine

Healthy for all: Training interprofessional skills – an increase in quality and added value for healthcare professionals

Subsidized by the OER funding

OER Translational Particle Therapy

  • Faculty of Medicine, Clinic for Particle Therapy
  • Contact: Cläre von Neubeck
  • Funding period: 01 April 2024 – 31 August 2024
  • Publication: to follow

Content: There are hardly any freely accessible teaching materials in radiation biology and radiation oncology. This OER project closes the gap by providing high-resolution (microscope) images and videos of radiobiological endpoints – including radiation damage at the cellular level, colony formation assays and the innovative CAM assay as animal-free tumor modeling.

Subsidized by the OER funding

eKommMed.nrw: E-learning resources for skills-based communication training in healthcare in North Rhine-Westphalia

Content: The “eKommMed.nrw” project offers digital teaching and learning materials to support communication and social skills in medical studies and other healthcare professions. The program comprises a total of seven modules. Three accompanying modules teach the theoretical basics of communication and overarching communication skills. Four application modules focus on everyday medical communication situations such as taking a patient's medical history, delivering bad news, communication within a team, and communication in telemedicine. The course content is presented using printable and multimedia materials. Interactive videos that simulate real-life medical conversations form a key part of the media content and are intended to serve as in-depth and supplementary preparation for classroom teaching. The materials were developed in collaboration with seven medical faculties in North Rhine-Westphalia (the universities of Bielefeld, Bochum, Bonn, Duisburg-Essen, Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Münster).

Supported by the OERContent.nrw funding program, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

DiKoMed – Digitalization in the context of medical school / Learning, teaching, and applying digital skills

Content: The DiKoMed project offers teaching/learning materials for conveying digital skills in medical schools and other health professions. DiKoMed is structured as a self-study course that can be taken anytime, anywhere, and can be used as a reference work or can be integrated into classroom teaching in a structured manner in the form of a blended learning concept. With the help of interactive elements, DiKoMed teaches basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes on 13 digital topics in healthcare, such as data protection, medically correct behavior on social networks, mobile health, and health telematics. DiKoMed aims to prepare medical students for the challenges of digitalization in healthcare and to support teachers in teaching digital skills. 

Supported by the Curriculum 4.0 NRW funding program, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia & Stifterverband

Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

PIM-LiMa

Content: A Moodle course room is provided as an OER for students of economics, production and industrial information management, the licenses are checked accordingly, and the topic of artificial intelligence is introduced. In addition to theoretical modules, practical applications of concepts (“brainware”) of AI research (method and application of software) will also be presented. The available scripts, videos, podcasts, and learning tasks will be converted into free educational materials.

Subsidized by the OER funding

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University Library

Data EDUcation at the UDE

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digiLL - Universitätsverbund für digitales Lehren und Lernen in der Lehrer:innenbildung

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