Open Educational Resources (OER) are promoted in different ways around the world. In the US, this work is often called “OER advocacy,” while in South Africa the Open Education Influencers MOOC (https://oe4bw.org/project/open-education-influencer/) is a notable example.
This lightning talk shares how the University of Innsbruck is reaching a wider audience:
* OER practitioners talked about the creation and the publication of their projects in The JOERney@UIBK: Experience Talks (https://oerworldmap.org/resource/urn:uuid:75e1c2a7-8540-4ff2-b2c6-04b2f23b3cda?language=en).
* The Aqua MOOC, a 2021 citizen science MOOC on water communities, was presented at a local district club. Volunteers from Computerias and libraries were invited.
The findings from this talk may inspire attendees of the lightning talk to leverage local venues, themselves; using a single, high-interest MOOC or resource, other OER and the OER repositories can be cross-promoted to potential re-users and interested people.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- …find connections between marketing OER at their institutions and involving local volunteers in the dissemination of information about OER.
- …think outside "the box", aka their institutional limits, and reach for a wider audience.
- …generate new leads for their OER practitioners to create OER for and broadening their understanding or who their ideal audience might include.
- …gain an understanding for the value of “old” OER and the sustainability efforts included in the production and the active advertising of a MOOC with so-called "ever-green contents" that is intended for a "long run".
