Open Educational Resources

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• Do you want to use open educational materials yourself?

  Open educational materials are available for reuse under certain conditions. The Creative Commons license indicates how you may use material from others in your education and how others may use your published educational materials. You must also cite the source for open educational materials. In any case, state the author, the year of publication, the title and the link to the source. You can also use the Attribution Builder to generate the reference.

• Resources for open educational materials

  Daarnaast zijn er in de vakspecifieke LibGuides van de UB dⁱverse bronnen te vinden.

  There are several platforms where you can find open educational materials: 

  • You can find open access articles via the University Library. 
  • On edusources you will find all kinds of open educational materials from educational institutions. 
  • The Mason OER Metafinder searches various sources. 
  • Various materials can be found via Merlot. 
  • Open textbooks can be found via IntechOpen and Doabooks. 
  • Via OER Commons and OpenVerse you can find images for reuse. 

   This list is not inexhaustible. Here you will find an extensive overview. 

  You can also find various sources in the subject-specific LibGuides by the University Library.

• Finding open alternatives

  The LibGuide Dealing with Copyright in Education is partly dedicated to open educational resources (OER). Here, you can find articles, videos and other material to be used free of charge. To find open educational resources in your field, you can also get in touch with the Subject Librarian of your faculty. 

  The University Library also supports the development of new open educational resources, such as textbooks, podcasts, knowledge clips and other learning material.

• Do you want to create your own open educational materials?

  The University Library offers support to create, save, structure and share your (open) educational materials. We are affiliated with the zone Towards digital (open) educational resources as part of the Dutch Acceleration Plan Educational Innovation with ICT, and we contribute to the development of edusources. Do you want to create and publish open educational materials yourself? Please contact the University Library.

• Examples

  The University Library can help to save, structure and share your educational materials so that they can be reused. The library supports the creation of open educational materials. We do this by making smart use of existing technologies. We have made available knowledge clips for the education of the Faculty of Social Sciences and we supported the creation of the open textbook for the Street Law programme. We also help various courses with the design of their learning paths and to save and share the knowledge clips they have created. In this video we explain the examples in detail. Curious about the open teaching materials of the VU? Have a look at edusources. 

  If you are enthusiastic about the (re)use of open educational materials in your education or interested in the possibilities for your profession or study programme, please contact the library. We are always looking for new projects to support.

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