MINT-L-OER-amt
News
The MINT-L-OER-amt project aims to sustainably integrate OER into the MINT teacher training and continuing education program of RWTH Aachen University. In his Lightning Talk René Röpke explains how to do that.
This text was shortened and translated from German to English by René Röpke.
It is licensed under CC BY 4.0-Lizenz and was written by Gabi Fahrenkrog for OERinfo – Informationsstelle OER (Source: open-educational-resources.de).
The use of OER can revolutionize the educational system, or maybe not? Lubna Ali elaborates on this question in her Lightning Talk.
It is licensed under CC BY 4.0-Lizenz and was written by Gabi Fahrenkrog for OERinfo – Informationsstelle OER (Source: open-educational-resources.de).
The aims
The aim of MINT-L-OER-amt is to integrate the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) into the STEM education and training programs at the RWTH Aachen University. This is accomplished by qualifying and supporting certain target groups to create, edit and utilize OER Materials for teaching purposes. The target groups are: Lecturers and students of the STEM didactics at RWTH, current school teachers in the region and later on other lecturers and STEM field students of RWTH. The above-mentioned groups are to be qualified gradually supported by the center of excellence at RWTH (MINT-L⁴@RWTH). All materials used within the qualification program will be available also as OER.
The results
We have finished year 2017 successfully by being nominated for the OER award under the category “OER über OER”. This category was under the umbrella of the German Commission for UNESCO. The nomination was awarded both digitally and with a handmade price.
Within the frame of the project, the following materials (only in German) were produced for the workshops:
- Presentation "MINT-L-OER-amt" (pdf, pptx, odp [follows soon]) (in German)
- Handout "OER-Portale im Überblick" (pdf, docx, odt) (in German)
- Handout "Bearbeitung von OERs" (pdf, docx, odt) (in German)
- Handout "Linkliste rund um OER" (pdf, docx, odt) (in German)
- Worksheet "Bearbeitung von OERs" (pdf, docx, odt) und "OER-Portale entdecken" (pdf, docx, odt) (in German)
- Question cards "OER und Creative Commons Lizenzen" (pdf, ppt, odp) (in German)
- Combination cards "OER Materialien" (pdf, ppt, odp) (in German) and "CC Lizenzen" (pdf, ppt, odp) (in German)
- Project flyer "MINT-L-OER-amt" (pdf) (in German)
- Training manual for OER trainers (pdf, docx, odt) incl. all materials (zip) (in German)
In response to the Open Call of the Open Education Working Group (@okfnedu) on Twitter, our colleague Svenja Noichl translated the OER Canvas into Norwegian.
Gradually, there are more and more languages in which the German OER Canvas by Sandra Schön (@sandra_schoen) and Martin Ebner (@mebner) for @OERinfo - Informationstelle OER (2017) has been translated. More information can be found here.
The following lectures, workshops and meetings were held:
- Project presentation during the conference “eQualification” in February 2017 in Berlin (in German)
- Workshop for lecturers of the STEM didactics at RWTH Aachen on 25th April 2017 (in German)
- Workshop around the topic "OER-Einsatz in der Schule - Eine Frage der Qualität" at OER Camp in Cologne on 13th May 2017 (in German)
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Workshop for students of computer science didactics at RWTH Aachen on 20th June 2017 (in German)
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Seminar session for the course "Fachdidaktik Informatik 3" at RWTH Aachen on 17th July 2017 (in German)
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Lecture "OER im Informatikunterricht der Grundschule" during the conference "Profilierung – Vernetzung – Verbindung: Kooperationen in der Lehrerausbildung" in Bonn on 12th October 2017
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Seminar session for the course "Fachdidaktik Informatik 2" at RWTH Aachen on 12th October 2017 (in German)
- Solo talk about the project at the OER-Fachforum as part of the OER-Festival 2017 in Berlin on 29th November 2017 (in German)
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Lightning talks about the project and regarding the topic "Qualität von OERs" at the OER-Fachforum in Berlin on 29th November 2017 (in German)
- Seminar contribution for the students of mathematics didactics at RWTH Aachen on 2nd December 2017 (in German)
- Workshop around the topic OER for the students in teacher training programs at RWTH Aachen on 14th December 2017 (in German)
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Seminar contribution for the scientific staff of mathematics didactics at RWTH Aachen on 20th December 2017 (in German)
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Presentation of the project progress on the conference “eQualification” in Berlin on 5th and 6th March 2018 (in German)
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Presentation of the project progress at "Bilanzierungsworkshop OERinfo" in Frankfurt on 22nd March 2018
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Workshop for the scientific staff of computer science didactics at RWTH Aachen on 10th April 2018 (in German)
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Workshop around the topic OER for master students of mathematics didactics at RWTH Aachen on 23rd April 2018 (in German)
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Keynote speech around the project in the didactics forum of the RWTH Aachen on 24th April 2018 (in German)
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Workshop around the topic OER for bachelor students of mathematics didactics at RWTH Aachen on 11th May 2018 (in German)
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Workshop for the course "Fachdidaktik Informatik 1" at RWTH Aachen on 14th May 2018 (in German)
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Workshop around the topic OER for master students of physics didactics at RWTH Aachen on 17th May 2018 (in German)
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Training session for searching and creating OER with the students of "Fachdidaktik Informatik 1" at RWTH Aachen" on 11th July 2018
Networking with other BFBM funded projects regarding OER:
- Skype call with Constanze Reder and Matthias Andrasch from OERlabs at the University of Cologne and at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern
- Skype call with Bettina Waffner from MainstreamingOER at the University of Duisburg-Essen
A summary of the project current results and an overview of the workshops, lectures and conferences until 31st December 2017 are to be found in the interim report (pdf, docx, odt). (in German)
Project Team
Prof. Dr. Ulrik Schroeder (project management), Lubna Ali und René Röpke
Prof. Dr. Nadine Bergner (further project management)