What is this transformation hub about?
The transformation hub Digital Educational Resources ensures that learners and lecturers have access to an optimal mix of digital educational resources, including open, semi-open and purchased educational resources. This is a rich range of digital educational resources that they can use according to their personal needs. It doesn’t matter where the resources come from, or whether they are commercial or open.
By achieving a diverse, rich and up-to-date range of educational resources, we enhance the quality of education. We do this by working on a set of facilities, both technical facilities and national agreements. Technical facilities include, for example, linking the learning environment to a national repository facility such as edusources. We will use exploratory studies together with educational institutions to gain insight into which facilities are deployed. The national agreements include copyright and how we deal with data, in order to be able to collaborate better with publishers. In addition to these developments, we are also committed to the transformation within educational institutions, deploying various instruments to help different target groups, such as libraries, within educational institutions. In this way, we are jointly working on a complete range of educational resources available and building a lively community of Open Educational Resources where knowledge and expertise are exchanged.
This will ensure that everyone in tertiary education in the Netherlands will soon have easy and smooth access to good digital educational resources. Collectively, we can manage the costs of digital educational resources for educational institutions and educational institutions can guarantee their public function via public values and Sustainable Development Goals (inclusiveness, equality, accessibility and high-quality education) in their digital educational resources that they provide to learners.
Who are we doing this for?
Learners
… have access to the most up-to-date and relevant digital educational resources in one place
Lecturers(teams) and professional communities
… have access to an optimal mix of up-to-date and inspiring digital educational resources and can easily create, reuse, procure and offer these to learners
Educational institutions
… are in charge and support their own lecturers in creating, accessing and purchasing high-quality digital educational resources
How to take part
Link up with initiatives of the Digital Educational Resources transformation hub. Have a look at our roadmap to see how you can take part as an individual, key team or as an institution.
-> Download the roadmap (in Dutch)
-> Find out more about our vision and objectives in our annual plan (in Dutch)
Spotlight on activities
- Use the national awareness campaign GO OPEN to inform education professionals in mbo, hbo and wo about the existence of open educational resources.
-> Download the GO OPEN kit or find out how to customise the campaign to your educational insitution. - OpenUp is a scheme that has been running for almost two years to help educational institutions get to grips with digital and open educational resources. As many as 24 institutions are now taking part in this programme.
-> Find out more about the OpenUp scheme
- Discover and make use of the edusources knowledge platform, a convenient launching pad for education professionals who want to get started with open educational resources (OERs). This is where you will find knowledge, expertise, communities of practice and OERs.
-> Go to edusources
- Join the edusources Community, where education professionals working on digital OERs collaborate, inspire each other and share knowledge and experiences.
-> Join the edusources Community
- Become part of the Content Advisory Council, where education professionals work together to create high-quality, affordable and impactful OERs that can be used effectively in education.
-> Read more or become part of the Content Advisory Counsil - • Give your collection a boost with the Boost your Collection scheme. Under this scheme, collection owners or professional communities will be able to make their collection sustainable and future-proof in six months.
-> Read more or sign up for Boost your collection
Stay up-to-date!
Sign up for the updates about digital educational resources and recieve quarterly e-mails with the latest updates.
Knowledge base
Practical case: Research is key to successful educational innovation
This practical case shows how Utrecht University approached research into the willingness of teachers to change. To make educational innovation successful, it is important to involve the teachers. Which research methods can you use for this, how do you set this up and how do you monitor the results? Mabelle Hernández and Sebastiaan Steenman (UU) explain this in this document.Collaboration SURF and Kennisnet
An ecosystem for digital educational resources that meets the public values important to the sector. This is what SURF, Kennisnet and Npuls will be working on over the next few years.What would we like to achieve?
The activities of the transformation hub ensure that control is back in the hands of educational institutions. We are working towards a more efficient and accessible system for digital educational resources for everyone in Dutch tertiary education. To achieve these ambitions of the transformation hub, the team is committed to:
- Developing a national digital ecosystem for sharing and reusing digital educational resources that works for every type of education. Learners and lecturers have access to an optimal mix of digital educational resources.
- Facilitating the conversation around copyright, data, metadata and technology standards and around the procurement and co-creation of educational resources that will be laid down in a public-private agreement system, putting the control back in the hands of educational institutions.
- The biggest change will take place within the educational institution. The transformation hub facilitates the educational institutions, by focusing on increasing the range of educational resources and support around the adoption of digital educational resources.
What foundation are we building on?
The programmes Forging ahead with Digitalisation (in Dutch) and the Acceleration Plan have produced concrete products to explore the potential of digital OERs in vocational education and training schools, universities of applied sciences and research universities.
Signing of the Statement and report on the National Approach to digital and open educational resources by the Association of Universities of Applied Sciences and the Universities of the Netherlands represents the first step towards control over OERs by educational institutions. Drawing on all the knowledge (and other) products and results, the Digital Educational Resources transformation hub continues to work on the transformation of education.
