This lightening talk examines key competences required for creating Open Educational Resources (OERs). For this, it presents the modular OER training programme at the University of Graz (Austria) and explains how this programme is embedded into the university’s OER strategy.
The OER training programme consists of three components: a self-study course on Moodle, a base module with four webinars, and a qualification module in which participants create and publish three new OERs. Successful completion leads to the certificate “OER Practitioner”, awarded by the Austrian association “Forum for New Media in Teaching Austria”. The accredited pedagogical concept is openly accessible on the University of Graz OER repository.
The talk argues that such structured professional development programmes are crucial for enabling teachers to implement Open Education sustainably in their teaching and it seeks to inspire participants to reflect on and further develop their own OER skills.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- … explain the value of OER competences (such as copyright expertise, quality assurance, pedagogical design) for higher education institutions and their teachers.
- … understand the structure and components of the modular OER training programme and consider how it could be adapted or transferred into their own institutional contexts.
- … reflect on their own OER competences and the relevance for their teaching.
