Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are freely available on the internet and can be shared and adapted. Unlike most other materials found online, OER can be used, modified, and redistributed legally and often free of charge. This is because OER are published under open licences that explicitly allow sharing and adaptation — the most well-known being the Creative Commons licences.
In the project “MOIN”, the six partners — Technische Universität Braunschweig, Hochschule Hannover, Kreisvolkshochschule Ammerland, the Lower Saxony State Institute for School Quality Development (NLQ), the University of Osnabrück and elan e.V. — jointly develop concepts and training opportunities addressing OER and the use of open licences. They are supported by the Service Agency Offene Hochschule Niedersachsen gGmbH. In addition to legal questions surrounding the creation of original materials and the use of third-party content, the project also explores the opportunities that OER open up for developing new didactic approaches. What makes “MOIN” unique is that partners from all three educational sectors work together over a period of 18 months.
By funding a total of 24 projects across Germany that work on the dissemination of OER, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) aims to raise awareness of the potential of open educational materials and to establish a sustainable culture of using openly licensed materials in schools, higher education and adult education.
Project partners of elan e.V.:
Project duration: 01.01.2017 – 30.06.2018, extended until 30.09.2018
Funding: The MOIN project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under grant number 01PO16009A.
