Thematic elements

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Thematic aspects of OER Before During After
Awareness Improving awareness about OER and mutual cooperation between departments Creating and/or scaling up awareness
Creating more awareness and involving teaching staff Improving awareness though an active launch, e.g. livestreaming the launch of the open course
Creating greater awareness about royalty-free images
Improving engagement. Generating enthusiasm among teaching staff, introducing as many people as possible to the project
Conducting an OER awareness campaign
Searching OER Listing sites with images that are uncopyrighted or licensed under CC Sharing a link to the website and Github on an open-source platform (Wikiwijs/Edusources)
Designing workflows for assistance with searching for existing OER for specific courses
Substantive access to OER Developing a taxonomy
Developing a knowledge graph
Adopting OER as the default format for educational resources. Officially including all interactive open textbooks that are published as set reading in course syllabuses.
Sustainably organising close alignment between the resources that are developed/curated and the open textbook
Having domain specialists and library committees select OER for education
Reusing OER Starting from pre-existing resources Instructing developers tasked with updating the curriculum to investigate what resources that are suitable for reuse are available on the open-source platform (Wikiwijs/Edusources)
Understanding the pros and cons of specific choices and the parameters for cultivating adoption and the broad use of OER
Creating OER Having internal and external reviewers monitor the quality of the subject matter Giving the book a modular structure, divided into separate modules to make it more flexible and adaptable
Emphasising the development of concrete educational resources Establishing standards for uniform formats
Developing a quality model
Developing innovative approaches to content production
Producing publication documents: workflow, quality standards for OER publications (not including quality checks of the content), metadata master form, publication progress form
Sharing OER Ensuring that all teaching staff are familiar with and aware of the rules for sharing their educational resources (in terms of copyright/crediting sources)