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Easily find and provide educational resources for higher education teaching with the portal for Open Educational Resources
HANNOVER, 3 November 2022 – “Sharing in Higher Education“ is the motto of the OER portal twillo (https://www.twillo.de), which the Digital Agency of Lower Saxony has now awarded as “Digitaler Ort Niedersachsen“ (Digital Place Lower Saxony). With this award, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor, Transport and Digitalization honors initiatives, projects or institutions that actively contribute to the digital transformation in Lower Saxony.
Sharing educational materials means sharing knowledge
The OER portal is the central point of access for Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education. Whether individual visualizations, videos, podcasts, scripts, course materials or complete courses – OER can be of a very different nature. The important thing is that they are published under an open license and in open formats. OER can be shared, modified, reused, adapted to specific teaching and learning contexts, and collaboratively developed.
“With twillo, we are providing much easier access to high-quality educational materials and openness in learning“ explains project manager Noreen Krause. Starting in August 2019 as part of the “OER-Portal Niedersachsen“ project the portal has been online since 2020. TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology is leading the project, which also involves the Lower Saxony institutions ELAN e. V., HIS Institute for Higher Education Development (HIS-HE) e. V., University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Osnabrück University and Stud.IP e. V.
In the meantime, around 1,500 educational materials have been published on twillo and can be reused. By integrating the OER search index (https://oersi.org/resources/), more than 55,000 resources can be found via twillo. “In addition to the infrastructure, twillo offers a wide range of services, such as competence-oriented training and advice on legal, didactic and technical issues relating to OER,“ adds Noreen Krause from TIB.
„We are very happy about the award as Digitaler Ort Niedersachsen. This is a great achievement for twillo, which makes an important contribution to an open structure of digitally based teaching and a culture of sharing in higher education,“ says TIB Director Prof. Dr. Sören Auer.
Due to the successful progress of the project and the milestones reached so far, the consortium of scientific institutions in Lower Saxony behind twillo recently received the promise of follow-up funding from 2023 to 2027 for a further 2.7 million Euros.
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About TIB
As the German National Library of Science and Technology, TIB provides science and industry with literature and information on technology, architecture, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics. TIB is the world's largest specialist library in its fields, and has an outstanding collection of basic and highly specialised technical and scientific information. This also includes objects such as 3D models, research data and audiovisual media. TIB is committed to openness, i.e. open access to information, publications and scientific data: It aims to ensure that information and knowledge are more transparent, accessible and reusable.
TIB continues to expand its role as a German information centre for the digitisation of science and technology and conducts applied research and development to generate new services and optimise existing ones. The focus is on Responsible Data Science, non-textual materials, Scientific Data Management, Open Science and Visual Analytics.
The TIB supports specialist and research communities at www.tib.eu with scientific content and digital services in the various phases of scientific work. The TIB's AV-Portal (av.tib.eu) allows users to search the large stock of scientific videos based on semantic analysis methods. By assigning DOI names (Digital Object Identifiers), the TIB ensures the quality as well as the permanent availability and referencability of scientific objects.
As a regular host of international conferences and specialist forums, the TIB offers platforms for networking and exchange at the crossroads of research, industry and information science.
TIB is a public-law foundation of the Federal State of Lower Saxony. The library is a member of the Leibniz Association.
https://www.tib.eu/en – More information about the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library
https://av.tib.eu – Go to TIB AV-Portal
https://www.twillo.de – To the OER portal twillo
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