Useful links
General information
This page provides an overview of the aims of the fOERde project at Kiel University and the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen. You will also find links to useful explanatory videos on OER and a pool of prototypical OER materials for school, university and extracurricular learning.
This site offers a teaching and application-oriented competence framework for imparting knowledge about, creating and using Open Educational Resources. It was developed by the International Organization of La Francophonie.
This site offers a global and comprehensive overview of the topic of Open Educational Resources. In addition to extensive background information (for example on the topics of law, digital education and OER research), you will find current news and a blog on OER as well as a large pool of OER materials and OER publications for school, university and further education.
This page provides up-to-date legal information on the creation, use and dissemination of OER. The regularly updated blog provides information on current advice and legal changes. The entries can also be filtered thematically according to the desired topic (such as politics, law, licenses, various media and many more topics).
This page from the market-leading licensor offers detailed information on CC licenses, interesting background information and the useful search engine Openverse, in which you can search for content published under CC licenses filtered by media type.
This site, an OER content buffet from Jointly, offers a variety of OER materials on numerous topics related to OER, such as introductions, legal matters, correct remixing and the like.
Here you will find a descriptive overview document on Open Educational Practices created by Christoph Richter. You will also find references to further reading.
On these pages you will find links to the so-called interactive OER canvas, an initial outline for teachers to plan and create a concrete OER project
Here you will find the website of the cooperation network kn-oer.de, an association of the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony and Thuringia for the creation of a cross-state infrastructure with a focus on open educational materials.
Possible relevant self-study courses
On this page you will find a large pool of self-study courses from the Commonwealth of Learning on various topics from the education sector, including OER, microlearning, learning analytics, etc. Registration is required in advance to access the courses.
On this page you will find a self-learning course divided into small steps for creating interactive task formats using H5P. Registration is required to access the complete modules.
On this page you will find a comprehensive online training course by Tobias Raue on the use of explanatory videos in the classroom and important didactic, technical and legal background knowledge. Free registration is required.
OER platforms and overviews
On this page of UNESCO you will find a rich list of links to open educational resources for school, university and extracurricular education.
Here you will find a bookmarking platform for the education sector, which was developed in cooperation with the German education server. This allows (free) educational materials to be shared, collected and indexed and ultimately made available to other users.
This site offers a wide selection of teaching and learning materials for various subjects; however, these are not always freely accessible.
Here you will find a diverse selection of freely available teaching materials, teaching ideas and interactive exercises for English, organized by sub-topic.
This page offers you a wide range of articles and other resources for English lessons. In addition to subject-specific materials, you will also find cross-curricular materials. Some subjects are still under construction.
This page is a link of digital index cards, wikis, transcripts, etc., which are made publicly available here and can be used by teachers and students.
Here you will find a list of 200 recommended sources on OER, which is constantly being added to. These sources deal with different topics such as images, teaching and learning materials, audios, videos, etc.
Here you will find a useful search engine for freely available media of various file types that can be used for teaching purposes.
On this page, Anja Lorenz provides a list of links on the subject of Open Educational Resources, organized by topic.
Here you will find a list of data protection-compliant, often freely available online tools for school lessons.
Once you have registered, this site offers you teaching and learning materials for the classroom as well as a range of online training courses for teachers on specialist and non-specialist topics.
Here you will find collections of selected teaching materials for teaching English, arranged according to curriculum topics or (sub-) competence areas.
ORCA is a free online portal for digitally supported teaching and learning at universities.
Here you will find the central OER repository of the state of Baden-Württemberg (ZOERR) as a central location for the publication, exchange and coordinated processing of open teaching and learning materials.
Search for content under a CC license (images, audio, etc.)
Search for images and audio files
Collection of various search options
Search for music files
Search for clipart
Search for icons on the topic of education
Search for pictograms
Search for English-language videos for teaching
Images and videos under a CC0 license
Tools for material creation
This page allows you to create QR codes that you can use to link multimedia content and make it quickly accessible via smartphone.
Here you will find software for creating H5P files, i.e. digitally supported and interactive task formats for specialist lessons.
On this page you will find a range of different types of tasks in HP5 format, including detailed video instructions on how to create them yourself.
Here you can find the first episode of the podcast zugehOERt by Jöran Muuß-Merholz, which deals with various topics related to Open Educational Resources.
This page provides correct license information for images from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Here you will find an illustration of various CC licenses and a detailed explanation of remixing and adaptation.
This page provides step-by-step assistance in selecting the appropriate CC license for your materials.
On this page you will find an article on the creation, provision and licensing of presentation slides as an Open Educational Resource.
Miscellaneous
Templates for the creation of breaking news memes
Templates for the creation of Netflix series
Templates for the creation of newspaper snippets
