Presentation at Ed-Media + Innovate Learning Conference, Amsterdam, June 2018

1. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
OER-Certification for
Higher Education
SIG Participants:
Ebner, M., Kopp, M., Hafner, R., Budroni, P., Buschbeck, V.,
Enkhbayar, A., Ferus, A., Freisleben-Teutscher, C. F., Gröblinger,
O., Matt, I., Ofner, S., Schmitt, F., Schön, S., Seissl, M., Seitz, P.,
Skokan, E., Vogt, E., Waller, D. & Zwiauer, C.
Results of the Austrian SIG
„Open Educational Resources“
Martin Ebner
Association „Forum Neue Medien in der Lehre Austria“
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2. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
Goal
§ Content of the recommendations for the Austrian higher
education landscape with regard to the sustainable
integration of OER in the education landscape:
"Creation and establishment of national OER labels".
§ Concept for OER-Certification at Austrian universities and
further academic teaching institutions

3. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
Assumption
The proposal is based on certification of the processes of
creating and providing Open Educational Resources (OER).
However, the quality of the content itself and legal certainty of
the learning objects should not be certified. This would not be
possible for legal, organisational and ultimately also financial
reasons.

4. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
Overview
§ Define OER?
§ OER-Certification
§ OER-Certification of lecturers
§ OER-Certification of Higher Education institutions
§ Open Badges
§ Recommendations

5. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of
educational materials that are in the public domain or
introduced with an open license. The nature of these
open materials means that anyone can legally and
freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs
range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture
notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and
animation
(UNESCO, 2012)

6. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
Overview
§ Define OER?
§ OER-Certification
§ OER-Certification of lecturers
§ OER-Certification of Higher Education institutions
§ Open Badges
§ Recommendations

7. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
OER-Certification of Austrian
Higher Education institutions
The certification of OER is divided into two areas:
certification of the lecturers on the one hand and
certification of the higher education institution itself on
the other. As a certification body, a central nationwide
office is proposed, which should be composed of
representatives of the universities in order to ensure not
only an objective assessment but also sufficient expertise.

8. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
Overview
§ Define OER?
§ OER-Certification
§ OER-Certification of lecturers
§ OER-Certification of Higher Education instiutions
§ Open Badges
§ Recommandations

9. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
OER-Certification of lecturers
§ Part 1: The first part is fulfilled if a lecturer has
verifiably created and published a total of three
OER-objects.
§ Part 2: For the second part, the lecturers must prove
that they have completed an OER training.
Proposal for a two-stage process:

10. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
§ The personal certificates should apply to all university
lecturers.
§ They remain valid even if you change employer and
therefore have no expiry date.
§ In order to prove that OERs have been created, it is
proposed that they be stored in repositories offered by
universities or named by them as suitable.
§ The use of a CC-0-, CC-BY- or CC-BY-SA license or a
comparable free license is required to license the OER.
OER-Certification of lecturers

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Amsterdam, June 2018
§ The qualification measure required for Part 2 should be
offered and implemented by all HEIs in a comparable form
or at least with the same workload.
§ For the completion of Part 2, a qualification measure to the
extent of one European Credit (i.e. a total of 25 working
hours) is proposed.
§ As part of the "Open Education Austria" project, a proposal
was developed and tested for this purpose: a blended
learning approach with an introductory and final event in
combination with a MOOC.
OER-Certification of lecturers

12. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
Overview
§ Define OER?
§ OER-Certification
§ OER-Certification of lecturers
§ OER-Certification of Higher Education institutions
§ Open Badges
§ Recommendations

13. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
OER-Certification of Higher Education
institutions
§ Part 1: The higher education institution has a
corresponding OER-qualification-measure (training)
and publicly commits itself strategically to using
Open Educational Resources.
§ Part 2: The higher education institution has a
defined number of OER-certified level 2 lecturers.
§ Part 3: The higher education institution offers its
own repository (or a suitable joint solution in
cooperation with other universities) for its lecturers
in which OER-objects can be stored.
Proposal of a three-stage concept:

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Amsterdam, June 2018
§ Only one of the three parts must be provided by the higher
education institution in order to achieve level 1. To achieve
level 2, two of the three parts must be verified and to
achieve level 3, all three parts must be verified.
§ The issued certificate is valid for a period of three years and
will then be re-evaluated accordingly. If a new stage is
reached in the meantime, the term begins anew with the
submission of the new stage.
OER-Certification of Higher Education
institutions

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Amsterdam, June 2018
§ Higher education institution with a total of less than
1000 students: 5 certified lecturers
§ Higher education institution with 1000 - 3000
students: 10 certified lecturers
§ Higher education institution with 3000 - 5000
students: 20 certified lecturers
§ Higher education institution with >5000 students: 40
certified lecturers
The number of OER-certified level 2 lecturers required is
determined by the number of students and is defined as
follows:
OER-Certification of Higher Education
institutions

16. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
Overview
§ Define OER?
§ OER-Certification
§ OER-Certification of lecturers
§ OER-Certification of Higher Education institutions
§ Open Badges
§ Recommendations

17. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
Open Badges
Open Badges are verifiable, portable and digital badges
that are standardized (i. e. have a uniform specification;
currently version 2.0) and have an associated digital
ecosystem.

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Amsterdam, June 2018
License by https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer

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Amsterdam, June 2018
License by https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer

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Amsterdam, June 2018
License by https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer

21. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
Overview
§ Define OER?
§ OER-Certification
§ OER-Certification of lecturers
§ OER-Certification of Higher Education institutions
§ Open Badges
§ Recommendations

22. Martin Ebner
Amsterdam, June 2018
Recommendations
§ Creation of a national unit in consultation with the
BM
§ Cooperation with the national projects "Open
Education Austria" and "e-Infrastructure".
§ Recommendation of calls for proposals for relevant
Higher Education Funds projects to support
implementation by higher education institutions (on
content, administrative and technical levels).

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Amsterdam, June 2018
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