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Created on November 8, 2023

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(Online) Open Source Material

Intensity

What?

Open source materials are learning and teaching materials (text books, video clips, presentations, spreadsheets, MOOCs, websites, footage...) developed by universities abroad and made available as Open Educational Resource (OER). The OER offer is open for everyone to use, to copy, to adapt, and to distribute in an adapted version. You can use OER from universities abroad to incorporate international perspectives into your course unit and to confront students with other (teaching) cultures.

Blend@UGent

How?

  • look for suitable OER on the platforms of e.g. the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the University of Michigan;
  • preferably use (English-language) materials by partner universities with a quality label (e.g. ENLIGHT partners), and with whom you can make specific arrangements. Any materials developed in the context of an Erasmus+ education project are by definition open source.
  • please consider your students' starting competencies when it comes to foreign languages;
  • be sure to explain the added value of the OER. Establish the link with the international/intercultural competencies you want your students to attain and make sure that the materials you use tie in logically with your course unit.

See the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform

Internationalisation@Home

Be sure to consult this Education Tip on 'MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses'.

Assessment

  • depending on the significance of the OER to your course unit, you can add an exam question on its contents to your exam. Ask the students for contextual differences, e.g. in the approach to concepts or specific ways to conduct research.

Practical Examples

At this point, we do not have any examples from education practice at Ghent University yet. If you have a specific practical example in mind that fits this description, please get in touch with us at onderwijsondersteuning@ugent.be. We are happy to add any relevant practical examples to this flash card.

At this point, we do not have any examples from education practice at Ghent University yet. If you have a specific practical example in mind that fits this description, please get in touch with us at onderwijsondersteuning@ugent.be. We are happy to add any relevant practical examples to this flash card.

At this point, we do not have any examples from education practice at Ghent University yet. If you have a specific practical example in mind that fits this description, please get in touch with us at onderwijsondersteuning@ugent.be. We are happy to add any relevant practical examples to this flash card.