Open Education
Open Education empowers educators to create, share, and reuse high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER). Wageningen University & Research (WUR) actively supports this in policy, encouraging staff to develop and share OER, making educational materials freely available to all.
OER include textbooks, readers, lecture slides, and video clips, all published under an open license. They remove barriers of time, place, and cost, fostering collaboration, innovation, and personalisation while ensuring learning experiences remain relevant and adaptable to diverse audiences.
The Benefits of Open Education
By using and sharing Open Educational Resources, you can:
- Access and contribute to a growing pool of high-quality teaching materials.
- Innovate by remixing and adapting content to fit students' needs and the latest insights.
- Collaborate across disciplines and work with peers worldwide to develop and refine educational resources.
- Remove financial and institutional barriers to education.
Open Up Your Education
Interested in opening your education? The WUR Open Education Team help you share your resources and discover existing OER and can answer any questions you might have about licensing. Newly developed educational materials are preferably published under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC license, allowing non-commercial use and adaptation.
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Sharing your own educational material for re-use
Why, where and how to share your own teaching material.
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Finding open material
Tips to find open teaching materials such as images, videos, textbooks, articles, and courses.
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Using and citing open material
Open (teaching) materials are mostly shared under a Creative Commons (CC) license.
Open Education at the National Level
All universities and applied sciences institutions in the Netherlands actively participate in the Open Science and Education initiative. To stay updated, join the edusources community, the national collaboration for OER.
Additionally, WUR contributes to the Npuls programme, enhancing digital learning resources, and participates in the Dutch libraries working group dedicated to online and open education.