1. Seite 1 21/02/2016 © 2008 | FWU gemeinnützige GmbH 12th EdReNe Seminar 20 -21 October 2015 OER in Germany - “Little by little, the bird builds its nest” Dr. Susanne Friz © 2015 | FWU gemeinnützige GmbH

2. 2011: Germany raised a number of fundamental objections to the idea of OER in the OECD Country QuestionnaireOECD Country Questionnaire 2011: discussion on OER starts in Germany (orientated on copyright, „school trojan“, economical questions) 3/2012 OER-Whitepaper („Open Educational Resources for schools in Germany“: background, players, development status 3/2012 OER-Whitepaper 9/2012: 1st OER-Camp Bremen; 9/2013; 9/2014; 9/2015 in Berlin 11/2012: Hearing of BMBF, KMK, collecting societies about OER -> agreement about digitalisation of textbooks 8/2013: 3 surveys from BMBF: outline / judicial/ metadata: outline judicial/ metadata 11/ 2013: coalition agreement (CDU, CSU, SPD) in Germany 2013: Working Group to develop a report on OER in Germany 2 History of OER in Germany © 2015 | FWU gemeinnützige GmbH

3. 21/02/2016 © 2009 | FWU gemeinnützige GmbH 3 Report of the Working Group of Representatives from the “Länder” and the Federal State on Open Educational Resources (OER) Published in January/2015 Working Group consists of: Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK) / Federal Ministry of Education and esearch (BMBF) / Experts: e.g. Wikimedia Germany; Professors; FWU http://www.bildungsserver.de/pdf/Bericht_ AG_OER_2015-01-27.pdf http://www.bildungsserver.de/pdf/Bericht_ AG_OER_2015-01-27.pdf

4. 21/02/2016 © 2009 | FWU gemeinnützige GmbH 4 The KMK paper presents a series of recommendations Platforms such as the German edu server will be strengthened or if necessary newly created to facilitate the exchange of educational materials -> central repository/referatory to links or materials Creation of an own OER licence -> to improve legal certainty Learners and teachers should be made more aware of OER Funding of model projects on OER by the BMBF Strengthening of international cooperation -> translation of exiting material in foreign languages Creation of an Information and Coordination Centre for OER

5. 21/02/2016 © 2009 | FWU gemeinnützige GmbH 5 Consequences of the KMK paper 1 Research project of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) "MappingOER" (till 29 February 2016): Issue of legal certainty and open or specific licensing of educational material Expert interviews and workshops “Analysis of the current state of free educational materials (OER). The situation of free educational materials (OER) in Germany in schools, universities, vocational education and training in June 2015” http://l3t.eu/oer/ by Wikimedia Germany: - Quality assurance - Licensing and legal certainty - Training models for multipliers - Business models “Analysis of the current state of free educational materials (OER). The situation of free educational materials (OER) in Germany in schools, universities, vocational education and training in June 2015” http://l3t.eu/oer/

6. 21/02/2016 © 2009 | FWU gemeinnützige GmbH 6 Consequences of the KMK paper 2 "Feasibility study concerning the setup and operation of OER- infrastructures in education “ by German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF): for different areas of education (school, universities, vocational education and training) demands for an infrastructure that co-ordinates open educational resources (OER) to deliver an estimate of costs for setting up and operating required system components (repository, referatory). The results will be published by the state (BMBF) in 2016

7. 21/02/2016 © 2009 | FWU gemeinnützige GmbH 7 Other topics in Germany Curriculum and resources: some local projects to map curriculum and resources curriculum matrix from Baden-Württemberg: http://matrix.lmz-bw.de/http://matrix.lmz-bw.de/ media pass for primary schools from North Rhine-Westphalia: http://medienpass.nrw.de http://medienpass.nrw.de Curriculum plus in Bavaria https://www.lehrplanplus.bayern.de/https://www.lehrplanplus.bayern.de/