OER-Kuration im Projekt „Mannheim Data Literacy“ (MaDaLi²)

Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze zur Veröffentlichung umfangreicher Sammlungen von Open Educational Resources

Abstract

Between 2024 and 2025, the University of Mannheim developed the bilingual e-learning course “MaDaLi² – Mannheim Data Literacy” as an interdisciplinary project designed to teach students cross-disciplinary data literacy skills. The course comprises eight modules covering the data lifecycle and is based on a collection of 131 Open Educational Resources (OER), including 59 materials produced in-house. When the course was published, fundamental questions arose regarding the curation of the resulting learning resources: Which materials should be published, where and how should they be documented, and how can heterogeneous licenses and technical formats be adapted to ensure high reusability? In addressing these questions, four curation dimensions (target audience, publication location, selection, and documentation) were considered. As a result, in addition to individual media products, entire learning modules were also published in the "Zentrales Repositorium für Open Educational Resources (ZOERR)" (Central Repository for Open Educational Resources). By limiting the materials to Creative Commons licenses, providing open file formats, and utilizing didactic metadata and thematic collections, content relationships, language versions, and license terms could be transparently mapped. The case study demonstrates that structured curation of learning materials in specific OER repositories can improve the discoverability, editability, and didactic integration of learning resources.