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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:
- 19/05/2025, 14:00–15:00, room B 2.05
- Registration: possible via CIS
Use, Creation & Publication of OER
Documents & Resources
- The eCampus course “Open Educational Resources” serves as the in-house information platform on the topic of OER.
- Here you can find the OER resource collection of the St. Pölten UAS.
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.
Christina Egger , BEd MEd
Expert Higher Education DidacticsService and Competence Centre for Teaching/Learning Development and Educational Offers (LEARN)
Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Killian , BSc
Junior ResearcherDigital 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