Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources at the St. Pölten UAS

The St. Pölten UAS promotes the use of free resources in education, referred to as Open Educational Resources (OER). Both teachers and students receive assistance to intensively use, produce, or publish OER because these resources

  • help to enhance the diversity of available materials and methods,
  • promote interdisciplinary collaboration and inclusion, and
  • support creators in dealing with legal uncertainties.

This means that the use, production, and publication of OER significantly contributes to the development and assurance of high quality in teaching.

The OER Policy of the St. Pölten UAS

You can view the St. Pölten UAS’ OER policy here (in German).

What Are OER?

OER Training Offers of the St. Pölten UAS

OER Practitioner

Starting from the winter semester 2025/26, the St. Pölten UAS will offer a further training course to become an OER Practitioner. This offer has a workload of 25 hours (1 ECTS credit) including the publication of three OER and is completed with the certificate “OER Practitioner”.

The training takes place on the following dates in the winter semester 2025/26:

  • Synchronous online kick-off: Monday, 22/09/2025, 16:00–17:00 (MS Teams)
  • Asynchronous working phase: 22/09–20/10/2025
  • Synchronous online meeting 1: Monday, 20/10/2025, 16:00–17:00 (MS Teams)
  • Asynchronous working phase: 20/10–17/11/2025
  • Synchronous online meeting 2: Monday, 17/11/2025, 16:00–18:00 (MS Teams)
  • Asynchronous working phase: 17/11/2025–12/01/2026
  • Synchronous on-site event: Monday, 12/01/2026, 16:00–18:00

Detailed information on the OER training course is available here (PDF in German).

Are you interested? Register now and secure your place in the course: learn@fhstp.ac.at.

Community of Practice

Interdisciplinary networking is regarded as one of the many advantages of open educational resources and is supposed to be promoted within the St. Pölten UAS through an annual networking meeting.

Next networking meeting:

Use, Creation & Publication of OER

Documents & Resources

Repository: Phaidra

At the St. Pölten UAS, the institutional repository “Phaidra“ is used for the publication of scientific texts by researchers, teaching materials, research data, and final theses by students. Moreover, the St. Pölten UAS supports the release of open access publications.

If you have any questions or requests concerning Phaidra, please contact jonas.kerschner@fhstp.ac.at.

You want to know more? Feel free to ask!
Egger Christina, BEd MEd

Christina Egger , BEd MEd

Expert Higher Education Didactics
Service and Competence Centre for Teaching/Learning Development and Educational Offers (LEARN)
Dipl.-Ing. Killian Stefan, BSc

Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Killian , BSc

Junior Researcher
Digital Technologies Research Group
Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies
Technische Weiterentwicklung E-Learning Systeme
Service and Competence Centre for Teaching/Learning Development and Educational Offers (LEARN)
Department of Media and Digital Technologies