In this page you can find the link to the documents and templates quoted in this course and the link to the documents shared online for your collection of references. You'll also have access to another example of practice coming from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). 

Let's start with the templates and the references.

  • OER101_W4_templates.odt: this document contains the templates you could use (and adapt, of course!) if you want to reuse an OER or create one. You can open and save it locally in order to use it according to your needs and, if you wish, you can share it back, when completed with your information, in order to give other participants and colleagues an example.
  • OER101_W4_references.odt: this document contains  the specific references devoted to the "hands on" part of the MOOC, putting the attention to tools and repositories which could suit your needs for creating OERs or for reusing OERs created by others. You can find these references also in the document related to the whole course, but if you need a smaller and more focused document, this is the version you may want to use smile
  • OER101_W4_accessibility.odt: this documents recollects contents from Week 4, Module 3. Its aim is only to support you if you prefer to read it as a whole and print it or save it locally.
  • OER101_references.odt: this document contains the references for the whole course. It is surely not exhaustive, since - luckily - literature and websites and blogs about OERs are growing and growing, but it could be a quite large starting point. Many of the suggested references come from Cable Green, Creative Commons, who has been so kind to share his rich list with all of us. Thanks again, Cable!

If you want to contribute with your own references, both about reusing and about producing OERs, feel welcome to share them in the Google Drive documents at these links:

You can also watch three additional videos, thanks to the kind contribution of another guest in our MOOC, Martin Ebner, Head of Educational Technology at TU Graz. In these videos Martin shares with you some insights into TU Graz experience with OERs, the attitude toward OERs as a chance to give access to education to the widest audience possible, some hints about the practices done with students and a view to the Austrian strategies in the field at national level.

Here are the links to the videos:

 interviewed by Susanna Sancassani

If you are interested in deepening the perspective on the recent developments of Open Education have a look at this short dialogue between Susanna Sancassani, Managing Director of METID – Politecnico di Milano, and Paul Stacey, Executive Director of Open Education Global.  This video was taken during Open Education Global 2019 Conference, hosted by Politecnico di Milano. Changing the paradigm of Education thanks to Open Education is a real opportunity to get teaching and learning materials improve in time, thanks to shared efforts, but also to bring to the broader community education in the form of a public good, and to reach as many people as possible with quality education, according to Sustainable Development Goal 4. In this scenario, also MOOCs – when openly shared – can be a great resource to spread quality education as far as possible. 

CC Certificate for Educators – Italian version

METID - Politecnico di Milano actively supports the open community and is engaged in the developments of open contents and open tools that can help the wider audience to learn how to reuse open resources at their best. According to this attitude, in 2019 METID worked on the whole set of materials related to the CC Certificate for Educators to prepare the Italian version, so that many more teachers and professors can learn more about how to share their own teaching materials and how to reuse other experts materials, working consistently with the requirements of the Creative Commons licenses associated to each open document. You can find the Italian version of the CC Certificate here; if you are interested to the English version you can follow this link.