Marc Rittberger, German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF)

www.o-e-r.de

InformationTransferNetworkingfor Open Educational Resources

National Information Center on Education

• German Education Index : produced with 20 partners, 800.000

documents, open access

• Open Access repository for educational science, in cooperation

with 35 publishers

• Network of Research Data Centers (talk in the afternoon)

• German Education Server adresses researchers, educational

adminnistration, professionals and the interested public

• Educational resources is one branch

OER in Germany: the story so far

2011 2013 2015

2012 2014

Start of the German OER discourse with the debate about the school trojan

• First OERCamp, Bremen• OER Whitepaper „School“• OER-Hearing at BMBF

• Federal Coalition Agreement recommends free licences

• OERde13: first OER conference held by WMDE

• Several OER-Hearings on state level

• OERde14: second OER conference by WMDE

• Start of the OER Berlin project

• Consultations of Working Group OER (KMK and BMBF)

• OER Whitepapers for Higher and Adult Education

• Report of the Working Group OER

• BMBF initiates OER studiesby WMDE and DIPF

• BMBF funding programme OERinfo is on track• 1st strand: information office• 2nd strand: projects concerning „fitness“ for OER –

awareness and qualification in several educationalsectors

• Both strands interact: supporting networks bymapping of connections

OER in Germany: the story so far

2016

2017

• OERde16 Festival• Mapping OER by WMDE: questions of quality, qualification, business models and law• Strategies of KMK and BMBF to education in a digital world• BMBF funding programme OERinfo is announced• Feasibility Study for OER infrastructures by DIPF

• Outlook

Challenges to education in a digital world- some answers from education politics

Digital education - Kultusministerkonferenz

• Educational media: „Opening out the linearity of production, allocation and usage of

media, so that each user, hence also learners as well as teachers may design and

distribute media by themselves“ [p. 30]

• Competencies for individualized and self-directed learning: „sharing“, „collaborate“,

„designing and producing (incl. publishing and sharing)“

• Chapter about OER in academia: cope with „legal uncertainty“

Digital education – Federal Ministry ofEducation and Research

• Digital Competency: ability to search information in a goal-oriented way,

to evaluate and to provide other users with own digital content:

→ search – evaluate – distribute• From transfering of knowledge to conveying the competency for self-

regulated learning• Teaching and learning with digital media: → more fairness in education

(common learning goals remain)

Outlook

• BMBF funding programme OERinfo is on track• 1st strand: information office• 2nd strand: projects concerning „fitness“ for OER –

awareness and qualification in several educationalsectors

• Both strands interact: supporting networks bymapping of connections

OER in Germany: the story so far

2016

2017

• OERde16 Festival• Mapping OER by WMDE: questions of quality, qualification, business models and law

• Strategies of KMK and BMBF for the challenges to education in a digital world • BMBF funding programme OERinfo is announced and aims at extending the audience

for OER and integrating OER into structures of teacher training• Feasibility Study for OER infrastructures by DIPF

Objective of the Feasibility Study*

„The study has the objective of identifying…

• sector-specific and cross-sectoral• need, acceptance, technical and organisational requirements• concerning a central infrastructure - for Open Educational

Resources (OER)• or one linking distributed inventories as alternative and• specifying the necessary system components, i.e. a repository or

a referatory or a combination of both.”

Political background: 2015 Report of theworking group on OER of

*Blees, Iet.al.: Machbarkeitsstudie zum Aufbau und Betrieb von OER-Infrastrukturen in der Bildung, Frankfurt, 2016.

With respect to:

• Significance of OER

• Current state of OER provision

• Need for support

• Expected added value of OER

A central repository would not be functional and not be accepted in

communities.

Differences in the Educational Sectors*

*Heinen, R et.al. (2016)

Outlook

OER in Germany: the story so far

2016

2017

• OERde16 Festival• Mapping OER by WMDE: questions of quality, qualification, business models and law• Strategies of KMK and BMBF for the challenges to education in a digital world

• BMBF funding programme OERinfo is announced and aims at extending the audiencefor OER and integrating OER into structures of teacher training

• Feasibility Study for OER infrastructures by DIPF DIPF

• BMBF funding programme OERinfo is on track• 1st strand: information office• 2nd strand: projects concerning „fitness“ for OER –

awareness and qualification in several educationalsectors

• Both strands interact: supporting networks bymapping of connections

Demand for project funding in 2016

• Feasability Study• Partners in all areas of education

Information office OER: seven institutions forinformation, transfer and networking for

Das Team von OERinfo. Foto: Sonja Borski, CC BY 4.0

• Source of information on OER for all target groups including newcomers

and thereby contribute to a wider display of the topic in Germany

• Representation of the current state of knowledge concerning OER

• Portray of different initiatives and approaches as well as fostering of

collaboration between the projects

• Compiling of good practice examples

• Facilitating exchange between stakeholders, interest groups and OER

initiatives

Tasks of the information office

OERinfo: three pillars

InformationTransferNetworkingfor Open Educational Resources

Information: multimedia, social, interactive

Transfer: OER knowledge from educational sectors for specialists and general public

School

Higher education

Adult education

Vocational training

• Providing of sector specific dossiers and information modules

• Monitoring and documentation of good practice examples

• Interface to target groups through different channels

• Information about the work of the information office

Networking by Mapping

• OER Germany Map: visualizing of connections between OER-players and their fields of activity

Overall activity in Germany

• Organization• Person• Service• Project• Event• Story

The map The result list The data record

The map The result list The data record

Connected to• Person• Organization• Event• Sub-Projects

The map The result list The data record

Connected to• Person• Organization• Event• Sub-Projects

Navigate to this connection!

Frankfurt am Main: several OER entities are located here

Tagged with educational sectors

Connected to• Organizing entities• Persons with

different roles• Media

Networking by Mapping

• OER Germany Map: visualizing of connections between OER-players and their fields of activity

• Better localization for the educational system of Germany

• Systematic expansion of data pool about Germany

• Functional integration into webportal of OERinfo

2017• (Virtual) advisory board• Launch of the OERinfo portal and

OER Germany map• Information modules by transfer

partners• Documentation of 2nd strand

projects• Collaborating with OERCamp-Tour

2018• Elaboration of information

modules and project documentation

• Expansion of data pool of OER Germany map

• Self-evaluation of OERinfo with aid of advisory board

• Conclusion workshop of OER funding programme

Information,Transfer, Networkingfor Open EducationalResources

… and what comes next…

Outlook

Thanks for your attention

Marc.Rittberger@dipf.de

With special thanks to:Ingo.Blees@dipf.deLuca.Mollenhauer@dipf.de Richard.Heinen@uni-duisburg-essen.de

www.o-e-r.de

Förderkennzeichen:01PO16015

References

Heinen, Richard; Kerres, Michael; Scharnberg, Gianna; Blees, Ingo; Rittberger, Marc (2016). A Federated Reference Structure for Open Informational Ecosystems. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2016(1): 13, pp. 1–6, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jime.413

Blees, Ingo; Hirschmann, Doris; Kühnlenz, Axel; Rittberger, Marc; Schulte, Jolika; Heinen, Richard; Kerres, Michael; Scharnberg, Gianna; Machbarkeitsstudie zum Aufbau und Betrieb von OER-Infrastrukturen in der Bildung, Frankfurt, 2016. 66 S. - URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-117154

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