In-Process Quality Assurance of Digital Resources (OER)

An Approach for Teacher Education Using the Example of the Development of an Online Course

Abstract

Increasingly, there is a demand for high-quality open-access resources that are aligned with needs and requirements for innovative teacher education. The dissemination and use of so-called Open Educational Resources (OER) is associated with the flexible promotion of digitization-related competencies across all three phases, which is currently still considered to be expandable. Reasons for this can be seen, among others, in the lack of approaches and systematizations to ensure the quality of such offerings. In addition, there is a lack of approaches that involve actors from educational administration and educational practice as OER users in the development process of OER. The article takes up these desiderata and presents an approach for in-process quality assurance of OER in teacher education, which is exemplified by the creation of an online course from the joint project COMeIN (Communities of Practice NRW for Innovative Teacher Education, Quality Offensive Teacher Education). In addition to the presentation and explanation of the quality assurance approach, the article also discusses the processes of cross-sectoral cooperation in quality assurance with their special features with regard to perspectives for teacher education.