Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible materials for teaching, learning and research that are licensed under an open license. Such an open license allows for free access, as well as free use, modification, and redistribution by third parties, with no restrictions or only minor restrictions. The creators themselves determine which rights of use they grant and which rights they reserve. OER include, among other things, textbooks, curricula, course outlines, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, and audio, video, and animation formats.
ZOERR is a service that covers several dimensions resulting from the high flexibility of OER. A portfolio of services has been developed to support the production, use and sustainability of OER. The ZOERR actively ensures quality standards in matters of technical, legal, didactic and formal (including metadata) requirements.
In addition to the pure provision tasks of a repository, the ZOERR portfolio includes consulting, production, quality assurance, public relations, networking, community building and engaging with emerging topics (like AI) in the OER universe. This puts ZOERR in a strong position to address the challenges posed by the tension between open science, OER and OEP on the one hand and commercial AI products on the other. Today, OER producers often seeno problem in producing open material with commercial AI tools. ZOERR is trying to raise awareness of the problems that arise from this paradox.
ZOERR at the University Library offers for the University Tübingen:
All services of the OER repository
AI consulting specifically for publication projects (not only OER)
