====== W01-1: Developing OER ======
During the last weeks, you have learned a lot about geospatial technology, biodiversity, and basics of higher education didactics. Now it is time to put your knowledge into practice! In the next two and a half days, you will work on the creation of learning materials that are openly available to everybody interested in the same training context like you. You will work on so-called Open Educational Resources (OER) that are associated with the idea of sharing educational materials as a common practice of action. You will learn about the potential of OER for creating high-quality and free to use resources for your individual teaching (and learning) at your local university.


===== Things you need for this worksheet =====

  * [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/19-4pkbnm3ad5JOIVKeJKl2r9wjr-x1X5/edit|OER Learning Resource Planning Tool]]. Please download the document for your work.
  * [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1giyrk5-TIfrjM2aYVyX4BctS2yFQ5DSBJrJ-UgGNevI/edit?usp=sharing|OER Planning Template]]. Please download the document for your work.
  * [[en:courses:training:element-06:materials:lc-m-01-5|M01-5: Teaching toolkit]]

===== Your tasks: Learning log assignments =====

  - Choose one of the contents from [[en:courses:training:element-01:online-week:ow01| Module 1]] and/or [[en:courses:training:element-02:description|Project 1]] on Geospatial Technologies as a topic of interest to work on for creating your own learning materials.
  - Find yourself other participants that share the same interest like you and like to work on a common idea,  topic/content and/or application/methods of our professional training related to geospatial technologies and environmental research.
  - As a group, agree on **one** specific topic/content and/or application/methods that you will use as a basis for creating your learning resource.
  - For the conceptual structure and contents of your OER use our OER Planning Template. Our OER Learning Resource Planning Tool gives you further guidance for creating your learning resource.


===== Reflection =====

At the end of Project 2: teaching project what do you think about the following aspects:

  - What were the biggest challenges in creating your own learning materials? Name three aspects.
  - How satisfied are you with the work in your group, i.e. distribution of roles and tasks, time management, etc.
  - What advantages and disadvantages do you see for the use, creation and distribution of OER?
  - Which three aspects are most important to you as a take home message in the area of higer education didactics?