Open educational material facilitates access to education, thus improving the quality of Switzerland’s educational system. Switch OER is the new exchange platform for Swiss universities to provide and access their open educational materials.
Universities don’t just impart knowledge, they also pave the way for innovative education. Their contribution to Open Educational Resources (OER) helps them to create high-quality teaching content and strengthen exchange within the academic community. This also helps to position their institution as a pioneer in the Swiss education sector.
So that the public can benefit from OER, the resources must be uploaded to a central exchange platform and made retrievable with metadata. Switch OER is one such central platform, which the foundation has set up in collaboration with ZHAW. OER creates a culture of sharing and makes it possible to reuse licensed teaching materials for your own courses. OER are an important component of open science and open education programmes that are well established at universities. They are amongst the digitalisation solutions receiving financial support from swissuniversities. Switch’s OER platform supports the fourth United Nations sustainable development goal of ensuring inclusive, equitable and high-quality education.
Together with ZHAW, Switch has developed a central exchange platform for open educational materials. The edu-sharing software provides all users with an established and user-friendly interface where they can upload, search and download educational material. The participation of universities in Switch OER is crucial to ensuring that the platform meets the needs of the university community and provides both high-quality content and a diverse range of educational material.
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