Useful Links
This link leads to the English Didactics Department at the English Seminar of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with Prof. Dr. Susanne Heinz spearheading the project. The project MELLT goes OEP is part of the department’s work.
General Information about OER
This page provides an overview of the goals of the fOERde project at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen. You will also find links to useful explanatory videos on OER and a pool of prototypical OER material for school, university and extracurricular learning.
This website offers a mediation and application-oriented competence framework for the teaching of knowledge about, and the creation and use of, Open Educational Resources. It was developed by the International Organisation of the Francophonie.
This page offers a global and comprehensive overview of the topic of Open Educational Resources. In addition to extensive background information (e.g. on the topics of law, digital education and OER research), you will find current news and a blog on OER as well as a large pool of OER materials and OER publications for schools, universities and further education.
This website offers up-to-date legal advice on the creation, use and dissemination of OER. The blog, which is updated regularly, provides information on current tips and legal changes. The entries can also be filtered thematically according to the desired topic (such as politics, law, licences, various media and many more topics).
This site from the market-leading licensor offers detailed information on CC licences, interesting background information and the useful search engine Openverse, where you can search for content published under CC licences filtered by media type.
This resource, an OER content buffet by Jointly, offers a variety of OER materials on numerous topics related to OER, such as introductions, legal issues, proper remixing and the like.
Here you will find a clear overview document on Open Educational Practices created by Christoph Richter. You will also find references to further reading.
On these pages you will find links to the so-called interactive OER canvas, a first outline for teachers to plan and create a concrete OER project.
Here you can find the website of the cooperation network kn-oer.de, an association of the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony and Thuringia to create a cross-state infrastructure with a focus on open educational materials.
Self-Study Courses
On this page you will find a large pool of self-study courses from the Commonwealth of Learning on various topics in the field of education, including OER, Microlearning, Learning Analytics, etc. Registration is required in advance to access the courses.
On this page you will find a self-study course divided into small steps on how to create interactive task formats using H5P. Registration is required to access the full modules.
On this page you will find extensive online training by Tobias Raue on the use of explainer videos in the classroom and important didactic, technical and legal background knowledge. Free registration is required.
OER-Platforms and Overviews
On this UNESCO page you will find a rich list of links to open educational resources for school, university and non-school education.
Here you will find a bookmarking platform for the education sector that was developed in cooperation with the German Education Server. This allows (free) educational materials to be shared, collected and indexed and finally made available to other users.
This site offers a wide selection of teaching and learning materials for various subjects; however, these are not always accessible free of charge.
Here you will find a diverse selection of freely available teaching materials, teaching ideas and interactive exercises for the subject English, arranged by sub-topics.
This page offers you a lot of prepared articles and other resources for teaching English. In addition to subject-specific materials, you will also find cross-curricular materials. Some subjects are still in the process of being developed.
This page represents a linkage of digital index cards, wikis, transcripts, etc., which are made publicly available here and usable for teachers and learners.
Here you will find a list of 200 recommended sources on OER, which is constantly being added to. These sources deal with different topics such as images, teaching and learning materials, audios, videos etc.
Here you will find a useful search engine for freely available media of various file types that can be used for teaching.
On this page, Anja Lorenz provides a list of links on the topic of Open Educational Resources, arranged by topic.
Here you will find a list of data protection compliant, often freely available online tools for school teaching.
Once you have registered, this site offers you both teaching and learning materials for the classroom as well as a lot of online training for teachers on subject-specific and non-subject-specific topics.
Here you will find collections of selected teaching materials for teaching English, arranged according to curricular topics or (sub-) competence areas.
ORCA is a free online portal for digitally supported teaching and learning at universities.
Here you will find the central OER repository of the state of Baden-Württemberg (ZOERR) as a central place for publication, exchange and coordinated processing of open teaching and learning materials.
Search for Content Under a CC Licence (Images, Audios etc.)
Below you will find various websites for searching for content under a CC-licence:
- Search for image and audio files: https://wordpress.org/openverse/
- Collection of various search options: https://oerhoernchen.de/
- Search for music files: https://www.orca.nrw/oer-support/oer-tracks
- Search for clip art: https://openclipart.org/
- Search for icons on the topic of education: https://zenodo.org/record/3674561
- Search for English language videos for teaching: https://www.dilertube.de/oer-videos/eng
- Search for pictograms: https://picto.kits.blog/#/search
You can find images and videos under a CC0 licence under the following links:
Tools for Creating Material
This page allows you to create QR codes to link multimedia content and make it quickly accessible via smartphone.
Here you will find software for creating H5P files, i.e. digitally supported and interactive task formats for subject teaching.
On this page you will find a number of different types of tasks in HP5 format including detailed video instructions to create them yourself.
Here you can find the first episode of the podcast zugehOERt by Jöran Muuß-Merholz, which covers various topics around Open Educational Resources.
This page creates correct licence notes for images from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Here you will find an illustration of various CC licences and a detailed explanation of remixing and adaptation.
This page provides step-by-step help in choosing the right CC licence for your materials.
On this page you will find an article on the creation, provision and licensing of presentation slides as an Open Educational Resource.