Students and lecturers should be able to easily access a rich collection of digital educational resources in one place, be it from publishers or higher education institutions. One national infrastructure makes this possible.
Digital educational resources Education & ICT
Challenges
Exploit the opportunities of digital educational resources
What challenges do institutions face in using digital educational resources in practice?
- How do you form a vision on digital educational resources?
- How do you organise your organisation to support and stimulate the instructor in this process?
- What technology do you need?
- How can an instructor in the practice work with digital educational resources?
Sharing challenges within communities
Are you working on the development of online education and/or OER? Or do you want to support instructors in this process? Get in touch with other experts within a community to work together to increase and stimulate openness in higher education.
Incentive scheme
Incentive scheme Open and online education
SURF coordinates the Open and Online Education Incentive Scheme of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. As an institution, you can apply for funding and experiment with online forms of education and initiatives to share and reuse OER.
Projects - pillar Online education
Read more about the projects of institutions that have participated in the Open and Online Education incentive scheme, which link up with the themes of peer feedback and online guidance.
Projects - pillar Open Educational Resources
Read more about the projects of institutions that have participated in the Open and Online Education incentive scheme with the theme of sharing and reusing educational resources.
Sharing and reusing
National platform for digital educational resources
SURF is launching edusources. With edusources, teachers and students can easily find and reuse digital educational resources for their teaching or study.
Starting with educational resources
Do you want to make educational resources accessible to everyone? Start by going through these step-by-step plans that support various disciplines within education.
- Introduction
- Policy
- Quality model
- In practice
- Professional vocabulary
- Workshop development
SURFsharekit: the online depot for higher education
Store your educational resources digitally and sustainably and make them freely available via SURFsharekit, the repository service for higher education.
Copyright
Auteursrechten.nl: everything about copyright issues
On Auteursrechten.nl you will find reliable information about copyright issues. Full of legal information and practical tools.
CopyRIGHT project: copyright for digital learning materials well organised
As a teacher, would you like to use (scientific) articles and other texts for your teaching and ensure that copyright is properly regulated? We are developing a tool that gives you insight into the reuse of digital material, including scientific content.
Educational practice
Stimulating professional communities to create digital educational resources together
Various instructors work together to build up and manage a collection of OERs. Check how you can encourage this in your institution.
Be inspired by enthusiastic teachers
There are plenty of reasons for teachers to start working with OERs. These instructors believe in sharing knowledge. (in Dutch)
Acceleration plan: Mix of open and closed digital educational resources
Robert Schuwer talks about the Digital (open) educational resources zone and how 10 institutions within the zone are working together towards digital (open) educational resources.
SURF Story with Marja Versantvoort
"I think the best thing about the project is that there is such a huge need for it. Teachers I speak to immediately see the possibilities," says Marja Versantvoort, project leader to make teaching materials for the Bachelor of Nursing available nationwide.
