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Potential Impact of Open Educational Resources and Practices for Good Teaching at Universities. The OER Impact Assessment at TU Graz

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Based on the increasing demand for and promotion of Open Educational Resources (OER, see (UNESCO (2019), this chapter describes the objectives of Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria for good teaching. A description of how the impact of OER at TU Graz will be analysed and considerations around it is the central contribution. In addition, the effects, and potentials of selected OER initiatives of the university are described as examples and discussed as key potential for good teaching. For a better understanding of the role of OER at TU Graz, the national context of OER in the Austrian higher education landscape is described at the beginning of the chapter.

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Source: Screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZD9RZoMhVE&t=130s and of YouTube statistic (September 2021)

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This contribution was partly developed in the context of the co-funded project “Open Education Austria Advanced” (2021-2024 by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research). Thereby, all project partners - i. e., TU Graz, University of Vienna, University of Graz, University of Innsbruck, as well as the Forum Neue Medien in der Lehre Austria (FNMA) and the Austrian Institute for Vocational Training Research (ÖIBF) - would like to contribute to making more materials and infrastructure available that support the systematic use and publication of OER by Austrian universities.

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Ebner, M., Schön, S., Ebner, M., Edelsbrunner, S., Hohla, K. (2022). Potential Impact of Open Educational Resources and Practices for Good Teaching at Universities. The OER Impact Assessment at TU Graz. In: Auer, M.E., Pester, A., May, D. (eds) Learning with Technologies and Technologies in Learning. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 456. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04286-7_5

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