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The production of digital teaching-support materials (notes, slides, graphic resources, videos, audios, etc.) has been common at our University for some time. In recent months, with the intensification of digital teaching, this production has increased even further. Many of these materials are being distributed as open educational resources (resources distributed in a way that facilitates their free use, adaptation, and distribution).

For this reason, OfiLibre launched a campaign to collect open educational materials produced by professors at our University and used in our courses. Now, well into the new academic year, we want this campaign to reach the entire University Community, giving every professor the chance to participate.

What are open educational resources?

UNESCO defines open educational resources (OER) as “teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with intellectual-property licenses that facilitate their free use, adaptation and distribution.” UNESCO considers that OER “offer a strategic opportunity to improve the quality of education and the dialogue on policy, knowledge exchange and capacity building.”

Why create a catalogue of URJC OER?

We believe that a Catalogue of Open Educational Resources of URJC, which gathers the OER produced by professors of our University and used in it, will serve several purposes:

  • Make visible a praiseworthy activity, carried out voluntarily by many professors of our University, and with clear social utility.

  • Allow our students to access, in a simple and coordinated way, the open educational resources produced at our University, both for the degrees in which they are enrolled and for any others that may interest them. Any other interested person will likewise be able to access these resources.

  • Serve as an OER archive so that any professor can use these materials, giving due recognition to their authors, for their courses.

  • Act as a meeting point for professors creating OER in the same teaching area, giving them opportunities to collaborate in the creation of materials and fostering the exchange of experiences.

  • Serve as a mechanism for accrediting the work carried out. In the future, OfiLibre could issue supporting documents so that professors can use them wherever they need to demonstrate their work in this field.

How to submit OER for inclusion in the catalogue?

Any professor can follow the instructions given in the announcement of URJC open materials collection campaign to request that their open educational resources be included in URJC OER Catalogue. In short, these instructions consist of sending us a message with the details of the OER to be submitted.

What kinds of materials can be included in the catalogue?

Any digital educational resource (notes, books, essays, slides, videos, audios, graphic collections, computer programs, etc.) that has been produced at least in part by a URJC professor, is used in at least one course of a bachelor’s or master’s degree, or a doctoral programme, taught at URJC, and is distributed under an open publishing or free-software licence can be included in the catalogue:

Do you need help?

If you need help to tag your works correctly with the appropriate licence, to choose a licence, to understand whether you are interested in publishing your resources as OER, or what exactly you have to do to publish them, send us a message to ofilibre@urjc.es. We will try to help you as much as we can.