The Development and Implementation of Missing Tools and Procedures at the Interface of a University’s Learning Management System, its OER Repository and the Austrian OER Referatory

Ladurner, Christoph; Ortner, Christian; Lach, K.; Ebner, Martin; Haas, Maria; Ganguly, Raman; Schön, Sandra

doi:10.18278/ijoer.3.2.3

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“…Looking into the literature, we find examples demonstrating how repositories can contribute to open ecosystems. For example, Ladurner et al (2020) present a practical bottom-up solution to broaden access to resources for students at their university. Teachers here are enabled to use their own learning management system (LMS) for the publication of OER.…”

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Increasing Sustainability in Open Learning: Prospects of a Distributed Learning Ecosystem for Open Educational Resources

Otto

Kerres

2022

Front. Educ.

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The proliferation of Open Educational Resources (OER) constitutes an essential element for establishing education as a “public good” on the internet. A core objective of OER is to broaden access to educational material and improve the overall quality of teaching and learning. In this manner, OER contributes to the sustainable (re)use and (re)distribution of (educational) resources. The goal of sustainability is also visible in the latest UNSECO recommendation concerning OER, which intends to support the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, namely SDG 4 (Quality education). The support of SDG 4 is combined with the call to create sustainability models for OER at national, regional and institutional levels and the planning and pilot testing of new sustainable forms of education and learning. As a result, several repositories and referatories for OER provision have been developed and tested in educational institutions worldwide. However, each of these platforms contains only a relatively limited number of resources. In our article, we argue that when considered through the lens of learning innovation and sustainable development, it would be necessary to increase the discoverability of available resources at the different locations and platforms that currently are visible to only a limited number of teachers and students. To achieve this goal, the focus needs to shift from the creation and growth of new and competing platforms to intelligent ways of linking and increasing their interconnectedness. We use the concept of “learning ecosystems” to illustrate this approach of interconnected resources. Ecosystems go beyond the spatial dimension of learning by focussing on actors’ diversity and interactions. Digital (networked) learning technology is part of an ecosystem and has itself to be understood as an actor. However, we discuss that ecosystems should be reflected with caution as they can themselves entail opening and closing mechanisms. Therefore, ecosystems that rely on mechanisms of opening their contents to other platforms can realise the full potential of open learning. We describe the implications of the concept of a distributed ecosystem by presenting case studies that show how technical solutions, including metadata standards and plugins, can link contents in repositories and referatories within ecosystems. The overarching objective is that the different repositories and referatories expand and improve the sustainable use of OER by merging into a distributed learning ecosystem.

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Increasing Sustainability in Open Learning: Prospects of a Distributed Learning Ecosystem for Open Educational Resources

Otto

Kerres

2022

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“…We give some examples for activities: The University of Graz, for example, is the first Austrian university demonstrating an OER policy, by a decision of the Rectorate in March 2020. Graz University of Technology has already implemented a systematic technical support for the OER publication process: A special feature of Graz University of Technology is that (exclusively) with the acquisition of an OER certificate, which is comparable to the fnma whitepaper, lecturers also receive the authorization to publish their materials as OER in the OER-repository (Ladurner et al, 2020). At the University of Innsbruck, the development of an OER repository is accompanied by training for lecturers.…”

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“…Within the framework of the project "Open Education Austria Advanced" under the project management of the University of Vienna, various existing initiatives of the participating institutions in the field of OER, for example the establishment of an Austria-wide OER department and university repositories, will be continued and intensified (see Ladurner et al, 2020). A subproject of the initiative "Open Education Austria Advanced" is entitled "Establishment of the national OER certification body".…”

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OER Certification of Individuals and Organisations in Higher Education: Implementations Worldwide

Schön¹,

Ebner

Berger

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The initiative "Open Education Austria Advanced'' develops infrastructures for open educational resources (OER) in higher education. One part is the development of certification procedures to point out OER competencies of teachers in higher education and OER activities at Austrian universities. We present the results of our research on existing OER certification procedures from the German and English-speaking world. We started by searching in the OER World Map and there listed OER policies of universities worldwide and then tried to find examples for existing OER certification for people and organisations. There are several examples for certifications of persons such as in MOOCs on OER, university training on OER or the Creative Commons certification itself. We found only a few references of (partly) OER certificates for organisations. The publication then describes ambitions towards openness of the OER movement regarding possible certification procedures, namely open development, open content, open assessment and open certificates. 265 Schön et al.

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Potential Impact of Open Educational Resources and Practices for Good Teaching at Universities. The OER Impact Assessment at TU Graz

Ebner

Schön

Ebner

et al. 2022

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

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The Development and Implementation of Missing Tools and Procedures at the Interface of a University’s Learning Management System, its OER Repository and the Austrian OER Referatory

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Increasing Sustainability in Open Learning: Prospects of a Distributed Learning Ecosystem for Open Educational Resources

Increasing Sustainability in Open Learning: Prospects of a Distributed Learning Ecosystem for Open Educational Resources

OER Certification of Individuals and Organisations in Higher Education: Implementations Worldwide

Potential Impact of Open Educational Resources and Practices for Good Teaching at Universities. The OER Impact Assessment at TU Graz

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