2026-04-25 –, Fab8.C 201 Swissuniversities Language: English
This workshop presents the early development of a university-wide OER process at a Zurich University of Teacher Education and opens it up for discussion. Instead of focusing only on OER outputs, the session addresses the institutional processes, roles, and quality questions needed to support sustainable OER practice. Participants are invited to reflect on challenges, discuss key questions from the first implementation phase, and contribute feedback based on their own experiences.
Open Educational Resources are often discussed in terms of outputs, platforms, or licensing models. Less visible, but equally critical, are the institutional processes that enable OER to emerge, scale, and endure.
This workshop draws on the design and early implementation of a university-wide OER process at Zurich University of Teacher Education. The initiative combines strategic, top-down impulses with bottom-up project work across multiple faculties and disciplines. Central elements include the definition of institutional quality expectations, the clarification of roles between academic projects, library services, and digital learning support, as well as the iterative development of OER standards informed by real project artefacts.
Rather than presenting a finished model, the workshop invites participants to engage with key questions arising from the first implementation phase. Together, we will reflect on challenges, enabling factors, tensions, and open issues in establishing OER as a sustainable component of teaching and continuing education. The session is designed as a space for exchange and feedback, encouraging participants to share comparable experiences, discuss critical questions, and help further refine the process through collective expertise and dialogue.
This is a contribution from the SIG OER.
I am a Professor of Computer Science Education at the Zurich University of Teacher Education (PHZH), Switzerland and conduct research at the Center for Education and Digital Transformation, with a focus on “Computing Skills in Education” as one of its key research areas. Additionally, I am affiliated with the Center for Media Education and Informatics, where I explore innovative approaches to digital and computer science education.
Previously, I was a visiting professor for Computer Science Education at the University of Hildesheim (Germany) and obtained my PhD in 2018 at the Institute for Software Development at Graz University of Technology (Austria).
My research focuses on gender-sensitive computer science, AI didactics, computational thinking, making, game design, and open educational resources (OER). A key aspect of my work is promoting girls and women in computer science and developing inclusive, gender-sensitive teaching concepts. I design didactic approaches that enable interdisciplinary, practice-oriented, and inclusive access to computer science education.