TOERN

Description

The TOERN project aims to connect the Lower Saxony OER portal twillo.de and the central OER search index OERSI to the national education platform. For this purpose, both OER infrastructures will be further developed in a user-centered way and made internationally connectable. Furthermore, the project focuses on the development of a digital modular learning program on technical aspects of OER creation, which will be connected to the national education platform via open badges.

Work package 1: Internationalization through enrichment/semantification

On the basis of a subject classification, subjects and their translations will be extracted from Wikidata. The resulting multilingual subject classification will be used as a basis for mapping subjects for existing and new sources and made publicly available as terminology. For the description of OER with fixed keywords and their translations into different languages, a module will be developed that makes suggestions based on Wikidata when assigning keywords and can be used in the context of the portals to label the learning materials. In the context of the search index, Wikidata will be tested and implemented for the expansion of the search space to include content in different languages.

Work package 2: Development of training offer "Digital competence OER"

To support the competence development of teachers in dealing with OER, an eTrainer format of the portal twillo.de will be completely digitized, modularized and extended by a technical focus (in terms of content, a special emphasis will be placed on the basics of the Markdown markup language and the GitHub service for creating OER). For this purpose, learning units are created in two thematic clusters and divided into different levels. The program is linked to the NBP via a self-assessment system and the automatic awarding of badges.

The TOERN project is funded by the European Union's Recovery and Resilience Facility.