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Digital educational resources
By taking action together, we can encourage the sharing and reuse of digital educational resources and make education future-proof. Together, we will ensure that students and lecturers always have access to high-quality educational resources wherever they are and that they can easily find them in one place. Will you join us?
Educational practice
How can lecturers get started with digital educational resources in teaching practice? By using the educational resources already available via edusources. Or by first delving into the knowledge and practical experiences of colleagues.
Developing good educational resources is time-consuming. If you work together, you gain many advantages. Other people's educational resources enrich your teaching, inspire you and save you time. Learn what OERs are, how to use them, and how to develop your own materials so that others can make optimal use of them.
Jointly creating educational resources within subject community
Several lecturers work together to build and manage a collection of open educational resources. Check how you can encourage this in your institution.
Open educational resources in practice
There are plenty of reasons for lecturers to get started with OERs. These lecturers believe in sharing knowledge. They talk about their experiences in sharing or reusing OERs.
Use cases Open Educational Resources pillar
The projects from the Open Educational Resources pillar that participated in the Open and Online Education Scheme can be found on this page.
Serious game helps open up discussion about pedagogical values and ideals
The serious game the Pedagogical Priorities Game has been played for years at various teacher training colleges in our country. During the corona pandemic, the question arose: can we also make a digital variant of this? That variant was created with financial support from the Open and Online Education Incentive Scheme.
Freedom in the lab: how open research assignments increase student motivation
Science education aims to train students to become critical thinkers. But do you achieve that with lab education that only follows 'cookbook recipes'? The universities of Amsterdam, Leiden, Eindhoven and the Free University think not. That is why they jointly developed new methods and materials to make lab experiments freer and more challenging.
Good practice Environmental Toxicology subject community
Kees van Gestel, professor of Ecotoxicology of soil ecosystems at VU University: 'Environmental toxicology education had become fragmented in recent years. The textbooks available were old and not always up-to-date. From the six Dutch universities offering the subject Environmental Toxicology, we decided to develop an open textbook Environmental Toxicology, in order to streamline education more and create unity.
The circular economy subject community only got rolling by finding a common goal
Five universities of applied sciences set up a subject community within the circular economy domain. Within the project, they wanted to jointly gain experience in sharing and further developing educational resources. After some start-up problems and eventually a renewed project proposal, the subject community developed a MOOC.
Realistic cases from real companies
To get to the heart of the subject of data analysis, as a lecturer you want students to be able to work with realistic data. Saxion University of applied sciences developed a MOOC on Business Analytics in which students can get to work practically with fictitious data from real companies.
Nursing students learn clinical reasoning with videos and interaction
How do you teach nursing students clinical reasoning? How do you bring them into contact with situations at home, in the nursing home, hospital or GP? Context is important for interpreting a situation. Utrecht University of applied sciences and Fontys developed video-based materials thanks to the Open and Online Education Incentive Scheme.
VR makes preparing and practising practicals lifelike
Students often find chemistry labs exciting. A lot can go wrong, resulting in quite high costs and safety risks. Together with the RUG, WUR developed a virtual chemistry lab to let students first practice virtually with virtual reality glasses in preparation for physical labs.
ShareStats: professional community and open environment for statistics assignments in one
Statistics is an important but also difficult subject in social sciences programmes. Students want to practise a lot, which means lecturers have a lot of work to do. Four universities took the initiative to join forces and create an open environment for statistics assignments.
Subject community Urban Resilience teaches students to look through the lens of resilience
Four Dutch technical universities have built a platform for future generations of engineers. The 4TU project Urban Resilience in Delta Regions led to a lively subject community that collects and develops open educational resources on urban resilience. The pioneering work required a lot of resilience of its own.
Subject community Information Literacy sets its own example with edusources
Library staff at educational institutions support lecturers in sharing educational resources. The professional community Information Literacy, in which librarians are united, also shares its own educational resources. Harrie van der Meer, chairman of the subject community, explains why sharing is important and what role edusources plays.