If you have any questions about OER or are looking for support, take a look here:

OER Stammtisch - is a meeting place for all those interested in OER, a place for questions, exchange and discussions

If you have general questions about OER in teaching , please contact the UOL's university didactics department

Anyone who publishes on twillo can use the weekly twillo-Thursday to get very specific help with their own OER. These open office hours are accessible without registration via BBB (see links and times there)

Media technology offers services and support for equipment loans, video production and lecture recordings.

Please also visit the University Library and the Academic Services. Here you can get support, e.g. with indexing, and get in touch with the contact person in your subject area.

OER explanatory video series by SOUVER@N

At the end of project an explanatory video series on the topic "Creating SOUVER@N OER: From the idea to the finished material", which takes into account the university perspective, among other things.

Websites:

OER Info - is a networking platform for OER. There you will find information on OER, a blog, an OER calendar, materials and more

OER Strategy - on these pages, the BMBF has compiled "information about the measures of the OER strategy . What is the background and history of the OER strategy, how were measures derived from it? And above all: What are the goals and intentions of the measures? (...) The BMBF continuously presents its activities in the OER strategy and categorises ongoing initiatives and projects in the context of education." (see website). There is also information on funding opportunities.

Materials:

OERientation, a self-study course with many modules on the basics of OER.
A good introduction to the topic is provided, with lots of individual information on creation, use, licensing, etc.
The project of the Institute for Technical Education and University Didactics (ITBH) at the TU Hamburg-Harburg was developed by Sabrina Maaß, CC BY-SA 4.0.

"Handreichung: Veröffentlichung von Lehr-Lern-Materialien als OER" by Elisabeth Scherer for the SeLL of HHU Düsseldorf, licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0. Here you will find information on Creative Commons licences, tips on copyright and where and how you can publish your materials. The document was developed for the HHU, but is also largely suitable for the UOL.
Should we revise this document for the UOL and publish it here? Please let us know at

For a quick overview: This checklist will help you to consider the most important points when planning your material. It covers legal as well as formal, didactic and technical criteria. The "Checklist: Creating Open Educational Resources" by Alexander Kobusch and Linda Halm is licenced under CC BY 4.0.

In ORCA.nrw's new video format, recognised experts shed light on the implications of artificial intelligence for open educational resources from various perspectives (e.g. legal, ethical, (university) didactic or application-related).

Click here to go to the ORCA website (you are leaving the pages of the University of Oldenburg).

OER can be found in various places on the internet. Here are a few examples:

At the UOL:

On twillo, you can display very specific OER that have been created at the University of Oldenburg: to do this, you can use the institution filter in the search, or click here.

Search engines:

twillo.de - is a portal for OER in university teaching and is supported by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture sponsored.

OERSI - is a search engine for free educational materials in university teaching and is a project of the University Library Centre of North Rhine-Westphalia (hbz) and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)

Elixir - is a joint offer of public information services in the form of a shared resource pool for teaching/learning materials, especially for school lessons

Further links:

A list of the 200 best OER sources (as of 2022) is provided by the operators of www.barcamp.de