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Numerous OER have already been created at the University of Oldenburg, many of which can be found at twillo.de, the Lower Saxony OER repository for (but not only) universities.
OER can also be found directly in Stud.IP via the OER campus.
| OER materials can be searched for using the search bar, whereby filters help to display only videos, for example. Clicking on an entry in the hit list displays the metadata and various buttons can be used to download the OER, add it to a course or, if necessary, open the website of the material. |
Since the last Stud.IP update (Mar 2024), the OER Campus in Stud.IP has also been given new functionalities, although there is still potential for development.
The OER Campus uses the OERSI search and thus also finds all OER that are available in twillo.
Introducing projects at the UOL
In the following, we would like to give the OER projects at our university the opportunity to briefly introduce themselves and at the same time present specific materials to interested parties.
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Support for teaching in inclusive settings: "Action strategies for heterogeneous classes - OER for teacher training"
For a taster - directly to a selected material:
 | About having and needing. A podcast from the "Learner needs" package |
 | Feedback - supporting learning constructively. A presentation video from the "Inclusive education" package |
 | What is Classroom Management? (Part 1 of 2). A screencast from the "Good teaching" package. |
What is it about?
Inclusion and heterogeneity of learning groups is a topic that is relevant in all teaching degree programmes. The project "Action strategies for heterogeneous classes - OER for teacher training" has taken this as an opportunity to create videos, podcasts and texts in the format "Open Educational Resources" (OER) so that (future) teachers can better qualify themselves and face the topics of "heterogeneous learning groups" and "inclusive education" more calmly. The materials focus on the quality of teaching, the possibilities of inclusive lesson design and school development as well as the special needs of learners. Impairments in the areas of learning and social-emotional development are also taken into account.
The materials were awarded "OER of the Month" (Feb. 2023) by twillo.de.
How can the OER be used?
The project has developed scientifically based videos, podcasts and texts ("products") on various topics ("packages"). Originally, they were intended to support university teachers in discussing how to deal successfully with the complexity of teaching in an interdisciplinary way with prospective teachers.
Further possible applications have emerged in the course of the project progression, including
- As self-study material for teachers both during their studies and in school practice
- For use in subject and school conferences as impulse materials in the context of inclusive school development
- As information material for school authorities to pass on to interested schools
Where to find?
All materials can be found in a collection with 3 sub-collections on twillo.de under this link.
Project name
Action strategies for heterogeneous classes - OER for teacher training. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Contact - Clemens Hillenbrand /
Project website - uol.de/oer-lkb
Project duration - 01.01.2021 - 31.10.2022
SOUVER@N - Digital teaching and learning in Lower Saxony
For a taster:
 | Here you can find all the OER provided by the partners of the joint project SOUVER@N at twillo . |
What is it about?
The SOUVER@N project is a joint project involving 8 universities in Lower Saxony and Elan e.V. that addresses the diverse challenges in the field of digital teaching and develops strategies and procedures for the partner universities and beyond. Further information can be found on the project website.
The (dynamic) link above provides anoverview of all OER materials that have been created for further use in the twillo network to date (updated daily) and thus impressively documents the OER activities of the partners. The compilation contains a colourful variety of offers that these universities and especially their teaching staff make available to the public.
How can the OER be used?
Due to the wide range of materials, "everything" can be found here: concrete working materials, courses, didactic instructions, handouts, guidelines, etc.; video, audio, texts, worksheets, textbooks, scripts, presentations and much more from a wide variety of subject areas.
As of May 2024, there are already over 1600 materials from the network. Accordingly, there are very different possible uses, as self-study material, to supplement your own teaching, as a basis for your own teaching, etc.
Where to find it?
Under the above-mentioned link under "Take a look" and on the SOUVER@N website.
Project name
SOUVER@N - digital teaching and learning in Lower Saxony
Contact - Norbert Kleinefeld /
Project website - www.souveraenes-digitales-lehren-und-lernen.de/home/
Project duration - 2021-31.07.2024, extended until 31.12.2025
OER in the "Methods file: Teaching methods from A to Z"
For a taster - directly to selected material:
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What is it about?
The method file is an extensive collection of different teaching methods that can be used in pre-school education, in a school context and in adult education. The methods can support teachers in preparing lessons . There are also options for differentiating and varying the methods.
The site also contains student-created OER that have been developed as part of courses focusing on education, training and socialisation .
How can the OER be used?
The OER can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom and beyond. The content is particularly, but not exclusively, relevant for teachers and student teachers . For example, the radio plays invite you to take a closer look at multilingualism, language situations and basic concepts of (political) education. The existing content can also serve as inspiration and help you to create and develop your own works .
Where to find them?
All OER materials are available on the Methodology Catalogue website.
Project name:
Methodenkartei - a co-operation project at the Universities of Oldenburg and Vechta.
Contact -
Project website - www.methodenkartei.uni-oldenburg.de
Project duration - since 2016 (open-ended)
Learning snacks around OER creation
For a taster - directly to a selected material:
 | Using images & texts in a legally compliant way (OER). A learning snack about legally compliant re-use. |
What is it about?
Learning Snacks are "knowledge snacks" that impart knowledge in small portions in a playful way via a chat format. The following self-learning modules were developed for a course in teacher training to support students in creating their own OER . The Learning Snacks provide a quick overview of the use and creation of OER.
How can the OER be used?
The Learning Snacks can be used to support the creation and quality control of OER.
Where to find them?
Anja's Learning Snacks on the pages of https://www.learningsnacks.de. These OER are licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0.
If you have any further ideas or suggestions for improvement, please do not hesitate to contact us for re-registering students:
participate@UOL
Take a look
Here you can find all the OER that have already been created in the project.
 | What is it about? Within the project, teachers and students have the opportunity and the freedom to work together in a participatory manner to identify and test the most suitable teaching and learning formats for them and to implement them sustainably in practice. In addition, a separate sub-project is developing OER to support students during or before their studies. |
How can the OER be used?
The OER created in the project are primarily aimed at students, but also at all other interested parties, and bring them closer to a wide variety of topics.
Where can I find them?
The materials can be found both on the project website and at twillo.de.
Project name
participate@UOL
Contact - Peter England /
Project website - uol.de/participate
Project duration - 08/21-07/24, extended until 31/12/2025
C3L - Quality management in educational organisations
For a taster - directly to selected material:
 | Quality management in educational organisations: An organisational theory perspective |
 | Exercises for the study materials "Quality management in educational organisations" Meso level |
 | Quality management in educational organisations: Case study: Higher education sector, competence-orientated evaluation - is it possible? |
What is it about?
Quality management has become a core task of educational organisations in recent decades. This collection is less concerned with a detailed analysis of the circumstances at the individual educational levels than with a holistic introduction to the topic. The subject of "quality management in educational organisations" is examined at various levels - thus creating a basis that is relevant in all educational sectors.
How can the OER be used?
The collection contains learning videos, case studies, teaching texts and exercises that can be used as self-study materials. Detailed information on the content and options for exemplary use are compiled in the document "Didactic instructions for using the open educational resources (link)" and the learning path. In principle, all materials are designed so that they can be freely combined.
Where to find them?
All materials can be found in a collection with 4 sub-collections on twillo.de under this link.
Further information
Other open educational resources are also created and used in the C3L. For example, OER have been created for the management of education and science, research data management, energy informatics and business topics such as human resource management, organisation and investment and financing . The C3L also has an OER strategy, which can be found at this link.
Contact - UdaLübben -
Website - C3L - Centre for Lifelong Learning
Teaching-learning platform school
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What is it about?
The Teaching and Learning Platform School is a platform for Open Educational Resources (OER) related to schools. Using a filter, the available OER can be selected according to target group (teachers, pupils, teachers, student teachers), school subject and product type (guidelines, podcasts, videos, self-learning concepts, experiments, worksheets).
The platform was developed as part of the OLE+ project of the Teacher Education Quality Initiative and is maintained by the office of the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre. The submitted materials were developed as part of various projects and study modules and are subject to quality management. The platform is open for further OER.
How can the OER be used?
The OER can be used in a variety of ways in different subjects, during studies, during teacher training and by teachers at school. Pupils can use them for self-study. The thematic content and product types (guidelines, podcasts, videos, self-learning concepts, experiments, worksheets, etc.) are broadly based.
Where can I find them?
All OER materials are available on the Teaching-Learning Platform School website.
Project name
Lehr-Lern-Plattform Schule der University of Oldenburg
Contact -
Website - uol.de/lehr-lern-plattform-schule
OER outside the UOL
OER can be found on individual websites, in subject-specific repositories, regional or institutional repositories, explicit OER repositories and generally everywhere on the internet. Only what is labelled as OER for search engines can be found - which can sometimes make the search somewhat difficult.
Here is a small selection of OER portals, search engines and other resources to make your search easier:
General OER portals
 | twillo.de is a portal for OER in university teaching and is supported by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and Culture. |
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Other Federal States also have their own OER initiatives, an overview of which can be found here:
Other OER repositories in Germany
OER Info provides a collection of OER directories and services that includes search services, collections of materials for subjects and educational areas as well as train-the-trainer materials and services that bundle and disseminate OER activities.
This portal also covers a wide range of topics relating to OER, from "What is OER" and "OER knowledge" to "How To" guides, a blog and an OER calendar with current events.
OERSI is a search engine for free educational materials in higher education and is a project of the North Rhine-Westphalia University Library Centre (hbz) and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
OER search engines
Openverse.orgThisEnglish-language site can beusedto find openly licenced and public domain works (especially images, audio and video). The specific licence conditions should be checked briefly for each item found.
Elixirisa joint offer of public information services in the form of a shared resource pool for teaching/learning materials, especially for school lessons.
Wikimedia Commons is a collection of many freely usable media files.
WirLernenOnline is a search engine for OER materials in the school sector.
MUNDO is an open educational media library for everyday school life.
Other resources
A list of the 200 best OER sources (as of 2022) is provided by the operators of #OERcamp.
Common search services or providers such as Google, Bing, Yandex or Flickr, Freesound or YouTube also offer the opportunity to search for materials under a free licence.
- For Google , there is a short guide here as a PDF or for reusers as a Word document.
- For YouTube, here is a short guide as a PDF or for reusers as a Word document.