Educational resources enrich our educational programs and the educational experience of our students. Digital open educational resources in particular offer the opportunity for personalized education that takes better account of the individual student and contributes positively to their study experience, study success and well-being. The availability of digital open educational resources is an important success factor in being able to offer education flexibly.
The adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) has become a necessity for leading institutions of higher education in the Netherlands. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science also endorses and encourages this. It is therefore important to make digital open educational resources optimally accessible through a good infrastructure.
The University Library is the content manager of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and stimulates the application of Open Educational Resources.
In the coming period, the Library will focus on the following goals:
- The development of policies for Open Educational Resources.
- A shared educational vision on Open Educational Resources.
- Organizing support for Open Educational Resources to stimulate use.
- Ensuring preconditions for making digital learning materials available to teachers and students.
Npuls
Npuls is a national Growth Fund program of and for all public vocational schools, colleges and universities in the Netherlands. It works together to improve the quality of education, increase the agility of the education system and strengthen the digital skills of teachers and students.
The aim of Npuls is that by 2032, Dutch education will have a coherent service portfolio for digital educational resources that will enable teachers and students to compile and use an optimal mix of digital (open) educational resources from one national digital ecosystem. The Library participates in the working group within Erasmus University Rotterdam and thus contributes to Npuls.
SURF and Open Education
Through SURF, the ICT cooperation organisation for Dutch higher education and research, higher education institutions exchange knowledge and expertise in the field of open and online education.
SURF has Special Interest Groups (SIGs), with experts from the participating universities and universities of applied sciences, one of which is the SIG open and online education (Dutch only).
In 2023, the University Library conducted a pilot with SURF Edusources / SURF Sharekit.
SURF Edusources is the national platform for Open Content for education. In addition, SURF has a national support desk for open educational resources with the aim of helping teachers with the application of digital open educational resources.
For teachers | OER Repositories
There is a wide range of open educational resources, which makes finding relevant and high-quality teaching materials a challenge. That's why we've selected several repositories for you with OER.
General OER repositories
The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find OER by simultaneously searching different OER repositories in real time.
Multidisciplinary and multi-format repositories:
- Merlot
Provides access to curated online learning and support materials and tools for content creation, led by an international community of teachers, students and researchers. - OASIS (integrated open source search)
Performs a simultaneous search in 97 different sources of open educational resources, amongst others BC Campus, Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, Suny OER Services, TU Delft Open Course Ware, TU Delft Open Books. - OER-commons
A public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and work together with teachers from all over the world to improve curricula. - OpenStax College
Free and flexible textbooks and learning resources. - SURF edusources
The platform for digital open educational resources for Dutch education. The platform is still under development and a growing number of higher education institutions are building collections here on. - CSU search engine for online course materials
Find free online course materials related to a book. - Open Textbook Library
The individual books can also be found via sEURch. - Our own Information skills modules
- Website for open educational resources in the field of economics
- RSM on Coursera
- RSM overview of MOOCS
- OCW Coursera
Copyright
No matter what materials you use, you always use other people's materials. You can contact the University Library's Copyright Information Point with all your questions.
Contact
Are you curious about the possibilities and how the Library can help you? Please contact us via the online form.