Les offres de formation ouverte facilitent l’accès à la formation et rendent ainsi l’espace suisse de la formation plus performant. «Switch OER» est la nouvelle plateforme d’échange des hautes écoles suisses, sur laquelle elles proposent et utilisent leurs supports de formation ouverte.
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.
A central platform for sharing teaching materials.
Teachers upload educational resources under open licences.
Materials can be accessed, used, adapted and shared with little or no restrictions, depending on the licence.
Switch OER Plattform
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.
Switch OER is free to use. Teaching materials can be searched, downloaded and reused without a login.
Institutions wishing to publish materials on Switch OER pay a participation fee based on their size. For a tailored quote, please contact oer-support@switch.ch.
En collaboration avec la ZHAW, Switch a développé une plateforme d’échange centralisée pour les supports de formation ouverts. Avec le logiciel «edu-sharing», tous les utilisateurs disposent d’une interface bien établie et conviviale où ils peuvent déposer, rechercher et télécharger des offres de formation. La participation des universités à Switch OER est essentielle pour que la plateforme réponde aux besoins de la communauté des hautes écoles et fournisse à la fois des contenus de haute qualité et des offres de formation variées sur le plan quantitatif.
Discover more about Switch OER and explore the platform. Learn how to share your teaching and learning materials with the wider educational community, and find practical guides and support to help you get started.
Switch OER currently offers more than 1,950 open educational resources (as of October 2026), and new ones are added all the time.
No login is needed to search, download and reuse materials. To upload, members of participating institutions log in with their personal Switch edu-ID – no separate registration is required.
In addition to a free-text field, there are several filters: discipline, keywords, university, authors, material type, licence, format and language.
The portal's editorial team assigns a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to uploaded materials. Like scholarly publications, they thus remain permanently findable and citable – with no additional effort required from lecturers.
The educational content is stored in a secure data centre in Germany.
Switch OER complies with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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