At HAN University of Applied Sciences, we are building an ecosystem that gives students and educators easy access to high‑quality learning resources, open, semi‑open, and commercial, to create an optimal mix for teaching and learning. We believe education should be accessible, reliable, and inclusive, and that public resources should be used wisely through sharing and reuse.
Rather than treating openness as a separate goal, HAN embeds Open Educational Resources (OER) into everyday practice through an institution‑wide strategy. This approach is built on five pillars: hands‑on support through a Content Support Team; professional development to strengthen OER competencies; recognition and rewards for open educational practices; structured change management at faculty level; and a robust technical infrastructure centered on a single institutional repository. Together, these pillars enable sustainable adoption of openness at scale.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Explain HANs five-pillar institutional approach and how these pillars collectively enable sustainable OER adoption.
- Identify practical strategies for supporting educators in combining open, semi-open, and licensed resources into coherent, high-quality learning materials.
- Evaluate the role of recognition and rewards in increasing faculty engagement with OER and understand how to implement similar incentives in their organizations.
- Adapt governance and change-management practices that support cultural and structural shifts toward open and blended resource use.
