Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are considered to offer a large degree of potential with regard to changing educational media and thus the educational system itself in an innovative way. Under guidelines issued to promote OER, the BMBF has supported projects aimed at raising awareness and providing training for multipliers in order to disseminate the issue. As a transfer partner for vocational education and training, BIBB was involved in developing and expanding the central platform OERinfo.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are understood to be digital teaching and learning materials (course materials, textbooks, videos, task sheets, podcasts etc.) which are freely accessible for all interested parties and without charge. Open Educational Resources may also be reproduced, put to further use, changed, mixed and disseminated. The term Open Educational Resources was introduced by UNESCO in 2002 and has been an object of international discussion ever since.
Advancing digitalisation also means that the significance of digital teaching and learning resources is constantly growing within the individual educational areas. However, the concept of OER and the associated opportunities they offer remain relatively unknown in vocational education and training in Germany. This is particularly true in comparison to the areas of school education and higher education, where the concept can already be said to have become established to a certain extent.